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Search Engine Friendly Flash

dallas-seo.blogspot.com
Jul 22, 2008
        
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Recently Adobe, the software provider of Flash, announced it is providing optimized Adobe Flash Player technology to Google and Yahoo! The new development is said to improve search results for Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) in the Flash file format.Adobe explained on their website:"This will provide more relevant automatic search rankings of the millions of RIAs and other dynamic content that run in Adobe Flash Player. Moving forward, RIA developers and rich web content producers won't need to amend existing and future content to make it searchable—they can now be confident that it can be found by users around the globe."That all sounds great, but I wouldn't go and redesign your CSS and HTML developed site for an all Flash experience just yet.There are still many issues to consider that can prevent the search engines from... [read full story]                    

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 warwick.ac.uk Jul 25, 2008
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In case you missed it, Google can now crawl and index Flash websites, according to Vanessa Fox at Search Engine Land. Google has claimed they can read some flash for a while now, but I don't think they could do it very well,...

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News of Adobe's decision to work with Google and Yahoo to make Flash searchable spread like wildfire. But so far, agencies aren't sure what this change really means. When John Romano, a senior web developer for marketing firm...