Explain Source Code

[wyclef]

Can someone explain to me what is going on with the source code on this page in regards to the Flash piece and the HTML stuff?

http://www.minesf.com

[ditt0]

Nothing's going on, the main swf loads other swf files.However, it's pretty weird..i see no reason why that huge html code is there, except SEO.

[bwh2]

yeah, basically it's SEO. w/flash, the content won't get hit by search engines, but by putting it in the html, it does. note code:

div id="Layer1"style="position:absolute; left:-900; ...positions the html content offscreen so you aren't bothered with it.

[MichaelxxOA]

and another thing, by putting that code in the H1 tag, it's making the crawlers see it as really important... might want to try it!

[wyclef]

But aren't their more practical ways to deal with that?

[Tesseract]

They are probably not fooling anyone. The folks at Google have, in all probability, taken tricks like this into consideration and have built an algorithm into the search engine to penalize tricks like that by bumping that page to the bottom of the search results.