GOOGLE Latest News: Flash sites Indexed Textual contents get Indexed

HI GUYS,

Latest news : Google can now index textual content in SWF files of all kinds. This includes Flash "gadgets" such as buttons or menus, self-contained Flash websites, and everything in between. But GOOGLE has some LIMITATIONS

Note that Google does not index FLV files, such as the videos that play on YouTube, because these files contain no text elements. also the JAVASCRIPT problem hasn't been solved and much more needs to be done,,,,,,,,,,,

THE ALGORITHM was improved by the Adobe's new Searchable SWF library.
LIMITATIONS: Googlebot does not execute some types of JavaScript

Google has integrated Adobe's Flash Player technology. With the launch of this technology (Flash indexing algorithm), web designers can expect improved visibility of their published Flash content, and you can expect to see better search results and snippets. more get on with the signature links

 

Its Adobe technology that have improved the performance of this Flash indexing algorithm by integrating Adobe's Flash Player technology.

Both Google and Yahoo have started applying the tech

 

It's true:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/google-learns-to-crawl-flash.html

 

Intresting, but the problem is most of the time, text object are loaded remotely from inside Flash

 

"Improved" does not mean fixed! Stay away from flash sites period! Nothing but SEO hell…

 

Almost the sam article was put out in 2005... Located here...
http://piecesofrakesh.blogspot.com/2005/02/google-and-flash.html

 

LIMITATIONS for GOOGLE

> Googlebot does not execute some types of JavaScript
> Google does not index FLV files, such as the videos that play on YouTube
> non-textual content, such as images WON'T be indexed
> if your web page loads a Flash file via JavaScript won't be indexed
> currently there are difficulties with Flash content written in bidirectional languages

So more needs to work on but its started,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

 

Good news but I don't imagine that Google will weight flash content very heavily.

 

Move in the right direction. Let's see what happens with this new flash technology crawling.

 

I think it is great news for us, I didn't like flash site just becoz of this issue otherwise flash idea on a web is really a fabulous job

 

its old news, try searching "conflict US" and #1 flash file is there for ages, and description is parsed from flash.

 

good advice. compliments.
Thank you

 

maybe not prefect, but getting better


here is the official link
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/google-learns-to-crawl-flash.html

 

Are there any recommendations for flash optimization?

 

I still say no no to flash for my customers

 

I still not recommend to use flash animations on their site, as long as its not 100% readable by robots.

 

Flash is good for presentations for clients great art designs not for main page

 

Good thinng is that google is indexing flash websites

 

I think it's excellent

 

Using the SWFObject method for flash implementation is still THE best method for getting flash content indexed and ranked within the search engines. I have used it DOZENS of times with tremendous success. Flash does not have to be avoided when using this method.

Flash is *starting* to be indexed by search engines and while at first this meant the text had to be embedded directly in the Flash movie, they have now announced that they can crawl externally referenced source files (such as XML, html, etc..).