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Google's New Flash indexing algorithm

Discussion in 'Google' started by absseo, Jul 1, 2008.

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    Google has been developing a new algorithm for indexing textual content in Flash files of all kinds, from Flash menus, buttons and banners, to self-contained Flash websites.

    Have a go... googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/google-learns-to-crawl-flash.html
     
    absseo, Jul 1, 2008 IP
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  2. gauharjk

    gauharjk Notable Member

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    Good News... :)
     
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  3. Mr. Websites

    Mr. Websites Active Member

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    Thank you for posted useful info here, that is very good news for all the webmaster who are interested to make the flash files in their sites.

    I just checked both links and they've improved Flash index for web pages.

    googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/06/improved-flash-indexing.html

    yesterday google has launched this new algorithm and also specified all the answers of Which Flash files and content can Google better index now.

    Thanks
    John
     
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    good news..but even though it index flash pages...you will still need some tagging like title tag, meta tag or some word content in order to be categorize in certain keyword
     
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  6. microbrain

    microbrain Banned

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    Now the crunchy flash sites will rock out !
    I think it's really a good news for those who are expert in flash web designs ~

    MB
     
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    That sounds like music to my ears. I had to develop a landing page as I wansn't getting found in google. Good stuff, way to go I think.
     
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  8. absseo

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    In that article there is another point which should be taken care of while using flash - Googlebot does not execute some types of JavaScript. So if your web page loads a Flash file via JavaScript, Google may not be aware of that Flash file, in which case it will not be indexed.

    Thanks
     
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    it is really a great news.. :) Now flash designer and programmer will get more order for flash website :)
     
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    That would be a good news for SEO. According to Google , Flash files can Google better index and has the ability to index content in swf files and that includes flash gadgets and self-contained Flash websites

    All of the text that users can see as they interact with your Flash file. If your website contains Flash, the textual content in your Flash files can be used when Google generates a snippet for your website. Also, the words that appear in your Flash files can be used to match query terms in Google searches.
     
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    I might start changing over to flash!
     
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  12. karamkshetra

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    This is such a cool info believe me or not... seriously I am so glad that Google did this... now at least the designers don't have to compromise on it. :)
     
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    Good news but I prefer to stick to the old fashion way of HTML
     
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  14. IEmailer.com

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    That's really old old news, back on 2006 Google started to index Flash based sites with the SWF filetype...
    But suddenly Adobe released a new edition of SDK for the search engines and Google just started by implement the new features...
    how ever since Macromedia Flash in Version 7.0 there was the option for both the designers and developers of Flash to add, edit
    and delete the Document information like: Title and Descriptions !!!

    Anyhow thank you for sharing...
     
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    Sprout guys were talking about this few months ago. I knew that its coming, but its still greeeat news
     
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    But Google will not be able to index everything embedded within a Flash file—at least not yet. Anything that is image-related, including text that is embedded into images, will be invisible to the search engines for the time being.

    Well, Yahoo is also working with Adobe to index SWF files, but It does not give you an idea about to be as far along as Google just yet.

    Well, what about Microsoft?

    __________________
    Google Crawls Flash sites
     
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    I prefer to continue using my HTML.
     
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    good news for flash sites. But i think html sites should be given priority. I have noticed few flash sites takes loads of time to upload. if that sites appearing in google search and after increasing traffic in flash sites it will be more harder to view flash sites.
     
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    Thanks, this is awesome!
     
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    Thats awesome news, would love to see how it actually turns out in the end. About time too.
     
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