Your opinions about flash impact on bots and serp

Posted: 14 years ago 4 replies

Couple years back I was told, "never put any flash on your site because the bots can't or won't enter to review." But what's going on today? There's so much flash - swf, flv, etc. on sites now I would think the search engines have moved on.
I don't mean the completely all-flash sites, I just mean using flash elements on the page. We have a new flash header on our Joomla home page along with other extensions and players, etc. throughout the website.
What's your opinion about this?
Thanks so much, Warriors!

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NiyazK

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14 years ago

they have changed as well i guess.. check the web 2.0
Free Website Builder | Create a Flash Website at Wix.com

EDIT: here is the way u view a wix.com page as googlerobot
http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/i...2Fsimcoe%2Fjay

So i think it has not changed
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DJ DeMarco

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14 years ago

Maybe search engine already change their bot configuration, because a lot of web specially web 2.0 style is using flash at their pages
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  Maybe places like facebook use flash because they want to avoid spam.
  Anyway, the real links on facebook are nofollow anyway, flash is never seen.
  
  Google claims to be able to read text in flash, but one must ask oneself:
  For what reason? Just because?
  
  Even google tells you to have text, text, and more text.
  
  The best practice would be to not rely on flash. Web 2.0 creators
  and operators are not there to help you spam links. Most of the
  ones that matter allow links that are nofollow.
  
  Facebook is a moot point. Even if the link could be read by some bot,
  which I am almost sure it could not in that case, a wall posted link
  would never even be crawled by google if it's on a facebook page
  behind a login. Not all facebook pages are open to search engines.
  
  Now before people scream, yes, I do think facebook links have some
  value. Just not to bots.
  
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14 years ago

Great answer Paul!

Agreed completely, flash elements are fine to use but ensure the rest of the page is optimized.
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