Jul 01 2008
Flash is now SEO friendly.
Well, not 100%, but at least Google’s bot and Yahoo’s slurp can index and read flash content (text). This was possible due to a close partnership between Google, Yahoo, and Adobe, who have worked together for some time to achieve this.
However, as Google states it on their blog, if you place images, animations etc in your flash files, it will not get indexed. Also, for flash buttons that target URLs the bots will not generate any anchor texts if the buttons themselves do not contain any text. Video files, like FLV will not be indexed.
This is a great step ahead, and hopefully we will not see any time soon spam bots that can do their usual with flash applications as well.
