SEO > SEO: Flash
Jul. 1, 2008 at 12:00am by Vanessa Fox
Google Now Crawling and Indexing Flash Content
Historically, search engines have been unable to extract content, such as text and links, from Flash (SWF) files. Subsequently, much of the Flash-based content on the web has been unavailable in search results. This situation has been frustrating for web developers, who have tried to come up with workarounds to...
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Apr. 11, 2008 at 10:11am by Eric Enge
How Flash Can Be Search Engine Friendly
For a long time there has been a tug of war between developers and designers who love to use Flash and SEOs who know how bad Flash can be from a search engine crawler perspective. The designer wants the beauty of an all Flash site. The SEO wants to bring...
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Oct. 18, 2007 at 7:46am by Stephan Spencer
The Search Engine Unfriendliness Of Web 2.0
Wouldn't it be great if all those whiz-bang Web 2.0 interactive elements based on AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) and Flash—such as widgets and gadgets and Google Maps mashups— were search engine optimal? Unfortunately, that's not the case. In fact, these technologies are inherently unfriendly to search engine spiders....
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Sep. 5, 2007 at 7:42pm by Danny Sullivan
Meta Keywords Tag 101: How To "Legally" Hide Words On Your Pages For Search Engines
If there's anything I particularly hate when it comes to SEO, it's the meta keywords tag. I so wish it had never been invented. It's practically useless, yet people still obsess over it. In this article, I'll explain more about why you shouldn't worry about it except perhaps for misspellings,...
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Mar. 27, 2007 at 10:38am by Danny Sullivan
Don't Expect A Magic Flash Solution For Search Engines
Call me Mr. Rain On The Parade, but after reading an interview in The Guardian with Google product manager of crawl services Dan Crow, I can't help but feel people are going to come away with the mistaken idea that Google will magically make their Flash content suddenly more accessible...
