Optimization Issues

[BirdintheCity]

Anyone know of a way to optimize Flash sites like mine (http://www.Birdinthecity.com) for Google? Some people say that adding Meta tags helps, while others claim that they don't.

Since I'm just a freelance Flash designer, I don't have the budget for large-scale advertising, and I can't get ranked for my all Flash site... HELP!

Thanks,
Brian
www.BirdInTheCity.com

[irf2k]

You mite wanna check this out:
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=34432&topic=8524

and also this:
http://www.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=4302

basically, the best way to increase your ranking is to increase the number of high-quality sites that link to YOUR site, but there is the problem of initially allowing google to crawl your site (discussed in the second link).
HTH

[colfaxrev]

someone told me that if you have an ALL flash site, a trick you can do to have your page crawled, is make an html table on your site. inside this put a whole bunch of text, like some of the same text that shows up in the flash movie. then with CSS give it a negative x position of like 2000. so it shoves it off the screen, but TECHNIcally its in the html document...

does this sound like something that would actually work??