Flash and SEO,were are we wrong?
Votes: 2599Were we wrong? The short answer is no, however it seems like Google has made some progress on indexing flash .swf files.
Example Gogle Query here - List of files in the index with .swf extension.
It looks like Google is reading text from the files, and even following links. I know this because Google's Webmaster Tools lists a link on one of my flash files as broken. This is because the flash file is in /flash/flash.swf and the link code is relative, my bad I suppose, so Google is looking for the link in the flash directory like so, /flash/link.html rather than /link.html.
Start the Flash re-revolution
Not quite! I would not put much stake in this just yet, partially because of what I mentioned above, and we just don't know too much about how Google weights things in the flash document. in the html documents we have H1, H2, H3, Strong, alt tags, and so on, to help provide meaning to the content, flash lacks this still.
So what should we do?
Well if you're an SEOer I would say stick with your current techniques and tricks , but add to it:
- Writing good copy for your flash files
- Use absolute linking in your flash files, Google may consider it a new link from a "new page".
- Use html in flash as much as possible to help give meaning to content within flash.
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