How google crawls and index Flash sites?

Discussion in 'Google' started by adiian, Nov 6, 2008.

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    I read that google can parse index flash sites. Do you know some specific tips&tricks? Did you have some flash content indexed by google?
     
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  2. bermuda

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    Look, an old professional recommendation is using Flash built pages less and there is no special tricks in this regard but search engines are gradually adding to their crawling formulas and Google can now read through the SWF files contents.
     
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    recipe for... Peon

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    Google will read all text in the flash. When they first rolled this feature out I had a site that had a flash animation which was stuffed with keywords. It had made no difference before because words in flash did not effect your SERP. But on July 1st right after they announced this my site went from #1 in its keyword to completely out of the index.

    I removed the flash and requested re-evaluatio or whatever they call it. After about 6 weeks it was back to #1.
     
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    If your web page loasds a flash file via JavaScript, beware googlebot doesn't execute some javascrpts. so google may not aware of the flash file in your web.
     
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    It's probably safer for now, to not use flash at all. Or find alternatives..
     
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    Google crawling flash content now but slowly. getting indexed fast better use plain text
     
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