Comments on: Flash and search engines

by: Self Storage Gatley

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 06:36:14 +0000

Nice post, keep up the excellent work

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Sat, 19 Jun 2010 20:43:42 +0000

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by: CoemiLepClize

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:34:20 +0000

I can upload this pic as an avatar? Size is not big! I think it should work? Some help please? Me in San Francisco2008

by: Ruben's usability weblog

Fri, 03 Feb 2006 09:07:30 +0000

And from swf files, only the first 101kB gets indexed. With swf2html.exe you can simulate what Google actually indexes from flash (I think that exe is part of the SDK). The result on most Flash sites is horrible for SEO.

From Google’s sitemap too I haven’t seen any benefits at all so far, besides the cute statistics. Google indexes the sitemap.xml multiple times per day, but the pages that are in the xml are not actually indexed by Google.

Furthermore, I I agree with you and John that nothing beats (X)HTML+CSS for SEO. Actually, I dont think flash should be used for complete sites ever. Just use HTML for text and flash when you need it :)

RSS feeds are indexed very badly by Google as far as I can see (displayed as unrecognized file type…?)

by: John Dowdell

Fri, 20 Jan 2006 01:12:54 +0000

For what it’s worth, Google has been databasing the text within SWFs for quite some time… try search term “filetype:swf contrary evidence” to test. (This was the purpose of the Flash Search Engine SDK release a few years ago.)

But aqs always, good HTML titles, metadata, and inbound links play a larger role in top-list placement than does body text alone.

jd/adobe