For All Those Flash Lovers. :specs:
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In September 2004, the search engine marketing industry was abuzz about Google finally having the ability to index Flash content. Macromedia’s Software Development Kit (SDK) had made it possible for search engines to convert Flash files into HTML, thereby enabling crawlers to index the content and links embedded within the files.
But how new was this news? This topic has a history. At the Search Engine Strategies Conference held in Boston in March 2003, the search engine FAST claimed it had the ability to index and follow links embedded in Flash. At that time Google claimed that their spider could also follow such links. Suddenly, a year-and-a-half later, the subject was hotter than ever due to the discovery of a file type indication of [FLASH] in Google’s results.
Less than Ideal
While Macromedia’s SDK makes it possible for a search engine to index a Flash file’s content, the format is less than ideal. The common elements for an HTML file are missing. In Google, the content of an HTML page’s title tag becomes the search engine’s results link. For a Flash file, the first words of the file’s content generate the content of the search engine result’s link, which can look particularly odd if it is a list of unrelated words. Seeing this kind of result, a user may have no idea of the subject/theme/content of your Flash file, and may choose not to access it.
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