Comments on: Flash

By: duz

duz — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 15:40:56 +0000

No it wont hurt the page’s ranking but it may put off a percentage of users

Google (not Yahoo or MSN at this time) will index the text in .swf files and it will read embedded URLs but the files will be indexed separately from the parent html document in which the .swf is embedded. This also means of course the content within the .swf files will not be considered in ranking the parent html document.

By: kirtan

kirtan — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 14:00:17 +0000

what i guess from bob’s question and your answer is, if i put a flash banner(not for navigation purpose) instead of jpeg, it won’t hurt ranking and googlebot will bypass object tag and spy rest of the page, rite?

By: duz

duz — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 16:52:05 +0000

Kurt just ‘View Source’

By: Kurt Granroth

Kurt Granroth — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 08:26:09 +0000

the flash in your blog is very funny, how can you do that?

By: weikelbob

weikelbob — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 19:34:13 +0000

Thank you.

By: duz

duz — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 07:37:19 +0000

Bob - No they will not stop and Google will try to parse it and even extract links if possible.

By: weikelbob

weikelbob — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 03:05:28 +0000

I guess my question is - will SE robots stop when they see flash at the bottom of some code any more than if they saw an image there?

By: duz

duz — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 08:24:46 +0000

Bob - I guess postioning a flash object is no different to positioning any image or other object.

By: weikelbob

weikelbob — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 04:41:16 +0000

Great Stuff!

I am a developer and wondering if there is a flash piece to a site, not navigation, not replacing anything, if it can successfully be utilized by using CSS absolute positioning and placing it at the bottom of the code with a fixed width container. This is, of course, if the website owner insists on Flash, which they do once in a while.

-Bob-