Splash Pages
This was once a very popular way to design a web site. Thankfully, it is slowly being consigned to history. A splash page is a usually image Java or a Flash page that appears to the visitor before they access your main site. Usually these splash pages are all images with little or no text, and usually no way to click into the site except by clicking on the Java or Flash component. By adding this in front of your site, you're committing a number of sins.
If you don't provide a way for the search engine spiders to get past your splash page, they may not be able to access your site to index it. One of the cardinal sins is to always force new visitors to see the splash screen. As the search engines' spiders tend to not preserve state, they are always seen as new visitors and so are continually redirected to the splash page.
The best way to fix this issue is to:
1. Remove the splash page; or
2. If you can't remove the splash page, add an HMTL link to the home page of your site and never force internal page accesses to go to the splash page.
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