Will the links designed in flash be crawled and indexed by search spiders

Hi All,

This is first time I am posting on this forum.. So please co-operate if I am posting at wrong place..
I would like to know if the navigation of the site is designed in flash will it be crawled and if yes how long it might take? Also I see one site whose home page has PR4 and the most strange thing abt the site is that the non of inner pages have any PR and also they are not index in Google. The site has been online for almost 2 years now..

Any advice would be appreciated?

Thank you in advance

 

Search engines won't crawl flash sites. Use text navigation instead.

 

Google is working on it, but it isn't implemented yet. However, if you provide the search engine with a sitemap it should help it index better.

 

No it wont. Bots are blind to anything on flash

 

According to this article: http://www.webpronews.com/ebusiness...IndexFlashAnInterviewwithMichaelMarshall.html (found here on DP), Google's been reading Flash files for over 2 years.

The thing is it can only read live type (type that hasn't been converted to outlines). Whether it can read links isn't directly addressed. I'd assume it can't since links in Flash aren't text objects.

 

First of all thanks a lot.. There's one more question i would post related to this itself.. The site has been online for 2 years now now we are planning to redesign it.. So in the new design we plan not to place flash and I hope that might solve our main problem to some extent..

When checked for indexed pages only the home page is the useful links that is cache now when i add the text navigation will google treat them as brand new pages and take time to rank them or will they start ranking once they are crawled..

Any advice would be useful.. Thanks in advance

 

If the pages are not indexed at the moment then they will be treated as brand new pages. Build some deep links from external sites to get them indexed now. Add a site map.