Comments on: Flash & Search Engines : Indexed in a Flash

By: Rubén Rojas

Rubén Rojas — Sat, 02 May 2009 21:41:31 +0000

Awesome. Can you put the examples online of the examples that you used? For me, see the content, make searches on google and yahoo and try that this is real. I like to know more about this.
Thanks.

By: Glenn Gabe

Glenn Gabe — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:49:02 +0000

Thanks @Damien. I’m glad you enjoyed my post! I will definitely check out your articles. My hope is that Adobe keeps developing that area for both the Flash and SEO communities. Thanks again.

By: Glenn Gabe

Glenn Gabe — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:43:26 +0000

Thank you @Paul and @Chuck. I’m glad you enjoyed my post. I’ll be writing more about this in the future as the situation changes and progresses. Again, stay tuned.

By: Glenn Gabe

Glenn Gabe — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:41:58 +0000

@Melanie, great idea! :) I’ve been part of those debates also…which is part of the reason I always emphasize testing before advocating solutions!

By: Glenn Gabe

Glenn Gabe — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:40:28 +0000

You’re welcome @redwall_hp. And I agree with you. That’s exactly the philosophy I use with my clients. Utilize flash only where needed (when you need its power.)

By: Damien Bianchi

Damien Bianchi — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:09:28 +0000

Hey Glenn – great article & tips. I contributed a few white papers on this topic to Adobe’s new “Search Engine Optimization Technology Center” I would love your feedback. You can find them here: http://www.adobe.com/go/seo

By: Chuck Morgan

Chuck Morgan — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:42:03 +0000

Finally some good technical answers, thank you very much.

By: Paul R

Paul R — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:03:38 +0000

Thanks for the great article. I’m not a Flash developer, but you made sense all the way through. I’m still going to use my strategy of having a Flash page for users and a fully functional HTML site for the search engine bots.

By: Melanie Phung

Melanie Phung — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:42:25 +0000

Next time a client or designer tells me Google can crawl Flash and therefore my SEO advice is out of touch, I’ll send them to this post and save myself hours of arguing. Check and mate. Well done! :)

By: redwall_hp

redwall_hp — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:17:30 +0000

I remember a flash designer commenting on one of my blog posts about flash seo saying, “Your post is now irrelevant! Google is indexing Flash! Let’s all binge on flash.” Not in those exact words of course. I think my first reaction was “hold on a second buddy…”

Thank you for that... And don't forget user experience. 90% of websites should not even consider going all-Flash. Flash is a user experience nightmare, and is a horrible fit for content-heavy websites. Or websites in general. Flash is good for web apps, video content, movie sites, or anything where visuals and interactivity are more important than content.