Google have recently updated their strategy to indexing Flash. Previously an SEO No No, Google are able to index and understand “almost any text a user can see as they interact with a SWF file on your site.”
Google can now index most text within a Flash file. They have been working with Adobe of the last few years to crack this barrier to SEO. Google is also starting to get better at indexing meta data from Flash Video Files.
While this is a gret leap forward for Flash users I would still recommend avoiding using Flash for major projects. It can slow down your page speed times and the development of indexing the technology is still in progress so I would not rely on everything inside the Flash getting indexed.
From Google: "While we’ve made great progress indexing SWF content over the past few years, we’re not done yet. We are continuing to work on our ability to index deep linking (content within a Flash technology based application that is linked to from the same application) as well as further improving indexing of SWF files executed through JavaScript."
As you can see Google is still working on indexing Flash technology. So good news if are a web designer who loves the cool visuals of Flash, but I would't go building a complete Flash website just yet!
Google can now index most text within a Flash file. They have been working with Adobe of the last few years to crack this barrier to SEO. Google is also starting to get better at indexing meta data from Flash Video Files.
While this is a gret leap forward for Flash users I would still recommend avoiding using Flash for major projects. It can slow down your page speed times and the development of indexing the technology is still in progress so I would not rely on everything inside the Flash getting indexed.
From Google: "While we’ve made great progress indexing SWF content over the past few years, we’re not done yet. We are continuing to work on our ability to index deep linking (content within a Flash technology based application that is linked to from the same application) as well as further improving indexing of SWF files executed through JavaScript."
As you can see Google is still working on indexing Flash technology. So good news if are a web designer who loves the cool visuals of Flash, but I would't go building a complete Flash website just yet!
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