flash and seo evidence?

Hi Guys,

Anyone have any evidence that the search engines can now read flash (.swf)?
I know from years ago it was always a no no but i remember reading i think a article from google labs saying they were working on flash elements and being able to index them?

 

Yes I read the same article about Google now being able to read text within flash animations. I would still avoid using flash too much until you see evidence of it working. It still wouldn't work well for Yahoo and MSN. So you should probably wait a while.

 

cool thanks for that ...

anyone have evidence that google can read the text in flash? or have an example?

 

I think spiders can now crawl flash based sites.

 

just read the google blog

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

 

BE CAREFUL . . . why i say that is because a few months ago i had a flash banner that had my phone number dropping in from the top . . . and yes google read it BUT it read it like 66666666666 for a 6 and then 0000000000 for a single 0

i dont know why probably because it was animated and also i dont know if they have tweaked it since but what i do know is that with all those extra weird characters IT DROPPED MY SEARCH ENGINE RANK DRASASTICALLY so i would recommend using a animated .GIF

 

http://www.sitepronews.com/2008/08/06/flash-and-seo-like-oil-and-water

Hope this fact will help.

 

You can use <div> tag to allow crawlers to read your content..

 

how do you think <DIV> helps get it read BETTER than not using <DIV> ?