Adobe Makes Flash Crawlable

Posted by on Jul 2, 2008 in Flash | 0 comments

SEO takes a step up in the domain of Flash applications, with Adobe announcing that rich media search will be available for Yahoo! and Google.  With RIAs becoming more common on the web, it has often been the decision to step away from Flash when SEO was a priority.

So who benefits?  I can see anyone with a Flash site full of data jumping up and down with glee!  But if your Flash application is heavy on data, it is likely to be pulling relevant data on demand from remote back-ends, and if this is the case, Adobe’s new initiative will not be improving SEO for you.  Where it will help is for the more monolithic Flash sites.  Big bang flash sites where all the static content is screaming out to be found by the search engine crawlers.  For those sites, this is a tasty SEO burger.

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