Ranking

The search engines will rank on the follow things:

Title, description and H tags.
Relevant content.
Links pointing to your website.
The links pointing to your sites anchor text.

These things must be done correctly to rank in the top of your industry.

Anchor text and links are currently the two biggest ranking factors on google.

The Sandbox

The google sandbox prevents sites from ranking in the Search Engine Results for around 6-15 months if your site was not in googles index previous to 15 months ago and you have more relevant anchor text than your competition then your site is more than likely in the sandbox.

Ways to check your links

To check your links go to yahoo or msn and type linkdomain:youwebsitesname.com this will give you’re a guide to how many sites are linking to your site. Another good way to check is to go to google and type allinanchor:Keywordyourtargetinghere this will show you the sites with the most relevant anchor text for your keywords.

I hope this article helps with your flash site I will be writing more specific flash SEO articles in the future so stay tuned.