Perhaps it would be better to serve your HTML version by default and redirect flash enabled browsers to your flash area? I dont know any stats, but I reckon users without JS are likely to be without Flash also?

I avoid flash like the plague. You could ask this over on the Google Webmaster Help group where I’m sure someone will give you a better answer than I can.

Best rgds
Richard

Upon detecting that a user doesn’t have flash using javacscipt, I want to redirect them to a non-flash page.

However if a user doesn’t have javascript I would need to redirect them using the http-equiv=”Refresh” inside tags.

Now would that cause problems for search engine spiders? What is the best way to provide flash detection without compromising SEO?

Thanks,
Olly

I think you hit the nail on the head – advertising Vs SEO. But I think there is a place for a happy medium by ensuring that there is a framework in place to ensure that both functions can achieve their stated goals by working together.

Nice to have someone from my old hunting ground commenting

Thanks for dropping by, best rgds
Richard

Overall though I think their SEO is impressive, under the hood they’ve a good deal of customisation going on, even down to article pages which is neat.