I just started to promote a online real estate magazine

[houseking]

I'm a web designer and I know some SEO and trying my best to promote this web page: housekingmagazine(dot)com I told my boss he should add some content to the first page...and take some of th e flash out... what do you guys think? Any suggestions?

[SkiRE]

You could use an iFrame for the flash and then substitute content in the no iFrames section...just keep it legit and that would allow you to get around the flash issues.

[Boston Condo Guy]

I PM'd you with some informaiton...

[houseking]

TheBoulderRealtor - thank you very much! Skire thanks for the suggestion. I'll bring it up on our next meeting. Really apreciate it!

[Charles Sweeney]

I'll bring it up on our next meeting.

Tell them to drop the Flash, instantly.

[houseking]

it is hard to convince the owner of the company... he likes the flash effects...

[Charles Sweeney]

it is hard to convince the owner of the company... he likes the flash effects...

It's a very familiar story!

Maybe you should print out some of the posts here, let him see them. Tell him his Flash stuff will cost him visitors/sales/customers.

Good luck!

[Deuce]

I didn't read the thread, but first went to the site. First impression was holy cow the flash, I'm still blurred (j/k). Just my 2 cents...

-=Brian

[corelevel]

he likes the flash effects...

The problems is that the site is not for him. THe site is for his clients. His clients go to a site looking for something - not to be entertained. Also - many of his clients (around 50%) are on dial up and flash is a drag big time for all these clients.

The reason bosses like flash is ego - they like to show people what a cool site they have. Beyond that, it really serves no real function.

Just my $0.02
Scott

[corelevel]

NOTE: I did not visit the site as I am on dial up for the time being, but I did clock it at websiteoptimization.com and it takes 134 seconds on dial up to load. Good thing I did not wait.