Search engine listing

Hi guys (newbie here)

How do I go about getting a good rating from say google. I understand that the "spiders" search for links and key words in the content of your pages but how do you get around this if most of your page is in flash. Can I put a whole lot of content in the back ground in say white so that we can't see it but the spiders can?

Is there a tutorial on this that I could check out

Thanks for the help

Don't do that with the white text on white bg, google hates it and wont index your site.

Make full use of the meta tags, and try and have the content match what is in the meta tag.

eg,

If you have a keyword that says Green Curtains, then make sure that is in the textual content of your site, also if you are designing a flash site, and you dynamically display the text from an xml file or whatever, that will I think help. My experience is though, ditch using full flash sites, unless it is absolutely necessary. Sure if you are designing for Nike or BMW, otherwise I would stick to designing in dreamweaver and xhtml. Look at this site for simplicity personified.

http://www.simplebits.com

Nick is absolutely right.

1) Never try to trick the google bot, it will bite you, and it bites hard.

2) Flash is generally horrible for SEO (Search Engine Optimization)... however, there has been news recently that the Googlebot is able to index flash sites now.. Still not sure if it will index it with the same weight as a text based/html site, so I'd still stay away from it.