SEO and Flash, can they ever be friends

Hi All,
I have recently been questioning the SEO side of things; and
am currently trying to better optimize my site. I use quite a lot
of flash on my site, and it sorted dawned on me that Flash is doing
me no favours when it comes down to SEO - I will need to get a good
ranking, as this year I will be putting a lot of money and time
into making our site a success story ;)
Am I a little green on this or what?
Anyone know any tips/tricks on how best to bring SEO and
Flash together, to better work in page ranking?
What do folks with totally 100% Flash sites do when it comes
down to SEO? As there is only a few meta tags and title tag
available?
I love Flash, and would never let go! However, this SEO thing
will always be a "Flash Avoidance" for new clients; how can one
best assure them that Flash provides more than just a better brand
image?
A few weeks ago, a potential client stated "I would never
have a flash menu".
Kind Regards,
Boxing Boom

@kglad: swfaddress need not be timeline based, flash just has
to respond by displaying the relevant content - which could be
loaded content.
My view is that the best way to achieve SEO is to use
swfaddress in combination with a CMS. The CMS provides the same
content in html for search spiders and to flash in a more 'flash
friendly' format when flash is 'rendering' it. SWFaddress supports
the deep-linking from search queries etc.
The way you could think about this is that when flash
requests the same content it gets (for example) xml defining what
it needs to do, whereas if the browser requests it , it gets the
basic html version. But the content is only ever defined once for
both versions of the output from the CMS.
Drupal (a CMS I am familiar with, but I'm sure other CMSes
have similar modules) has a swfaddress module as well as
services/amfphp modules that let flash request content.
My own (somewhat neglected) site has flash requesting all the
content via Drupal. I am not currently 'displaying' it using flash:
flash is loading the content (using as2 LoadVars in json format)
and 'rendering' it via the browser via ExternalInterface and
javascript. This was a kind of experiment just to see if I could do
it - it does store pages in flash memory so some things happen a
little different when navigating to a previously viewed page. But
it could also easily do its own alternate rendering of the same
content, as more structured data and rendering them in its own way
inside flash.
My own example is not so great (it is due for an overhaul)
but I know there are examples out there using this approach with
flash.
The beauty of this approach is that you get SEO via the
traditional spidering approaches, deeplinking to the correct
content from search query results, forward/back button support,
non-flash based browser support, along with easy content
maintenance. It does require learning a CMS and the approaches for
integration with flash though.

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