flash and seo evidence?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by darrens, Sep 25, 2008.

0
  1. #1
    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?
     
    darrens, Sep 25, 2008 IP
  2. vansterdam

    vansterdam Notable Member

    Messages:
    3,145
    Likes Received:
    120
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    245
    #2
    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.
     
    vansterdam, Sep 25, 2008 IP
  3. darrens

    darrens Peon

    Messages:
    808
    Likes Received:
    4
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    0
    #3
    cool thanks for that ...

    anyone have evidence that google can read the text in flash? or have an example?
     
    darrens, Sep 25, 2008 IP
  4. tsukara

    tsukara Banned

    Messages:
    1,030
    Likes Received:
    6
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    0
    #4
    I think spiders can now crawl flash based sites.
     
    tsukara, Sep 25, 2008 IP
  5. LoCo

    LoCo Well-Known Member

    Messages:
    232
    Likes Received:
    3
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    130
    #5
    LoCo, Sep 25, 2008 IP
  6. locals

    locals Well-Known Member

    Messages:
    1,677
    Likes Received:
    20
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    153
    #6
    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
     
    locals, Sep 25, 2008 IP
  7. fr@nc!z

    fr@nc!z Active Member

    Messages:
    1,545
    Likes Received:
    12
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    80
    #7
    http://www.sitepronews.com/2008/08/06/flash-and-seo-like-oil-and-water

    Hope this fact will help.
     
    fr@nc!z, Sep 25, 2008 IP
  8. www.rapidvectorseo.com

    www.rapidvectorseo.com Peon

    Messages:
    312
    Likes Received:
    7
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    0
    #8
    You can use <div> tag to allow crawlers to read your content..
     
    www.rapidvectorseo.com, Sep 26, 2008 IP
  9. locals

    locals Well-Known Member

    Messages:
    1,677
    Likes Received:
    20
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    153
    #9
    :D how do you think <DIV> helps get it read BETTER than not using <DIV> ?
     
    locals, Sep 26, 2008 IP