Google and Flash Websites... Success!

For all of you out there who keep saying no no no to Flash websites (I am one of them) Google announced that they can crawl Flash-based sites.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080701-google-yahoo-spiders-can-now-crawl-through-flash-sites.html

For the SEO mob, we can now be ok (even though I don't know if I like it) with our clients asking for flashy sites.

For all those Flash Developers out there... your world is only getting better.

Guess I better brush up on my action script

 

Yeah, they could’ve crawled flash based websites long time. Did you ever see those celebs sites with hardly any text content?

 

Finally. I wonder why this took so long...

 

Remember that Google's algorithm was built around backlinks... lots of links pointing to the Celebs.

 

Ye flash sites rock i think ill add more flash content now

 

Non-flash websites will still be prefered for a very long time. Flash has yet to become a fully capable alternative.

And by the way, Google has been able to crawl Flash-based websites for few years already. That's not really news. This will just make it easier to crawl those sites but other issues are yet to be solved.

 

But I wonder How GOolge crawl it ?

 

Please no, entirely flash sites make me cry at night.

 

Probably download the SWF and view the source? Not sure though.

 

Great News for flash designers

 

Does this mean there are going to be more Flash sites? D:

 

Media environment is growing, usually people would like to watch an article instead of reading the whole boring paragraph. Google might be adjusting to this scenario.

 

just "being able to crawl & index" is not the same as ranking well. far from it.

google crawls and indexes millions of HTML sites that dont rank too well either.

plus if the flash is triggered by javascript, they still wont be indexing it.

flash will be obsolete before it ever ranks well IMO

 

if that case...then some of my sites that has flash will be good now...

 

So how long before they can start indexing video content?

 

Hmmm... How google crawl that

 

Advanced image processing and voice recognition.
These technologies already exist but probably not practical for google yet.

 

this has been around for almost a year now .. should see what is next !!! ..

 

Static Websites will still be the standard as the trend for sites is to go moblie not to become more flashy. Flash is great for alot of things, but it is still best used as a component of a static website.

 

can you guide in detail how to work for flash based website seo