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Who said Google can’t index Flash files and sites?

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Google has improved its ability to crawl and index flash files. And also read the urls in the flash banners on your site. Five cheers to Google’s indexing team.

Google Flash Indexing Interview

Google Flash Indexing Announcement

All text files in any type of SWF whether banners, buttons or ad slots. They can read and crawl all the text and index them. This largely helps sites which may have have important content on those SWF files. Goolge’s algo can’t yet read the images, but I guess that’s not way off. This June 2008 update is a boon to webmasters who for long wondered what to do for getting flash content indexed.

However if your flash file is getting uploaded via a javascript, Google may find it difficult. If the flash file is

Adobe Flash Technology work in making things searchable helped Google in indexing flash content. Web designers would be a delighted lot and can continue their creative work.

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Written by Raj

January 19th, 2009 at 7:49 pm

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