On 18th of June Google announced that now they support Flash indexing with external resource loading.
Quoting Janis Stipins, Software Engineer at Google:
This means that when a SWF file loads content from some other file – whether it’s text, HTML, XML, another SWF, etc. – we can index this external content too, and associate it with the parent SWF file and any documents that embed it.
If you didn’t know what kind of Flash indexing was before please read these articles from Google Web Master Central and Adobe Developer Connection:
These time this is what is new:
- Index textual content displayed as a user interacts with the file.
- Discover links within Flash files.
- Load external resources and associate the content with the parent file.
- Support common JavaScript techniques for embedding Flash, such as SWFObject and SWFObject2.
- Index sites scripted with AS1, AS2 and AS3, even if the ActionScript is obfuscated. The ActionScript version isn’t particularly relevant in indexing process.
Guys from Flash’n'SEO did some experiments before this improvements and you can read their findings on their site.
Waiting for new experiments that will test these new improvements.
Tags: Flash, google, indexing, search, SEO
This post was written by Andrei Ionescu
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