Friday, 12 September 2008

Google learns Flash

I love Flash, I really do.
But as primarily a SEO firm, we’ve been steering clients away from flash based websites for years due to the fact that Google, Yahoo!, and MSN couldn’t index their content. By content, I mean written text, images, and of course links among other website elements.
It appears the Game is Changing Once Again
Google announced that it has made vast improvements in crawling and indexing flash based content from menus to entire sites:
“In the past, web designers faced challenges if they chose to develop a site in Flash because the content they included was not indexable by search engines. They needed to make extra effort to ensure that their content was also presented in another way that search engines could find.”
- From the Official Google Blog

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