Hi there,
since flash sites are indexed and crawled by google to a much lesser extent than html files I wonder if it's possible to include xml-files that include the content for the flash swfs in the xml-sitemap.
My flash site loads several swfs and all of them load their respective content from xml files which are perfectly readable by bots.
The swfs are on the root level wheras the xml-files are loaded from a different level.
The swf is embedded in http: // www . domain . com/index.html
whereas the swfs load the content from
http:// www . domain . com/content/file1.xml
http:// www . domain . com/content/file2.xml
http:// www . domain . com/content/file3.xml
and so on...
I tried to generate xml-sitemaps with using http:// www . domain . com/content/file1.xml as the URL but that didn't work.
Would it be o.k. to manually add the location of the xml-files that include the content for the swfs in the xml-sitemap sort of like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset
xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9
http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/sitemap.xsd">
<!-- created with Free Online Sitemap Generator www.xml-sitemaps.com -->
<url>
<loc>http://domain.com/index.html</loc>
<lastmod>2010-05-04T11:40:52+00:00</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>1.00</priority>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://domain.com/content/file1.xml</loc>
<lastmod>2010-05-04T11:40:51+00:00</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>1.00</priority>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://domain.com/content/file2.xml</loc>
<lastmod>2010-05-04T11:40:51+00:00</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>1.00</priority>
</url>
</urlset>
Ideas or knowledge anyone?
Thanks!
Guest