Indexing of flash files
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When Google indexes a flash file, do they use a library for such a purpose ? What set me thinking was this blog post ( although old ) which states -
"we expanded our SWF indexing capabilities thanks to our continued collaboration with Adobe and a new library that is more robust and compatible with features supported by Flash Player 10.1."
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Seriously you should be looking forward to my blog post (currently they need to review it for technical accuracy, which may take some time) but it is a post about how to make your Flash website as SEO friendly as possible...but until then I can only tell you, "Even the good-old HTML , we need A LOT of optimization to make it PERFECT for indexing..." , i have tried so many ways to make my Full Flash website SEO friendly, and let me tell you, none of them are as powerful as any optimized HTML page
That is why in my blog post here, I am going to explain how to make your Flash website as SEO friendly as those normal optimized HTML page (and it really works)
Hopefuly the blog post is approved in time
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It's not something for the faint of heart you need to know how to program some server side language and javascript. But armed with that knowledge (or a good front end developer) you should be able to do it. For more technical bable on making a snapshot see this page (not that it's talking about ajax and not what I mentioned but the technique is the same)
http://code.google.com/web/ajaxcrawling/docs/html-snapshot.html
I spoke about this subject in a previous thread, but basically you need to make a HTML5 website and check the browser for html5 support, if support is present show the site, if not show a flash version.
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Thanks for clarification.
"HTML5 snapshot of the site, and serve this to google" How can we do this ? Can you please elaborate
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what they are saying is that they are working with adobe to make the google bot better at crawling flash sites. but I would refer to googles help pages on this subject. On the other hand I would make a HTML5 snapshot of the site, and serve this to google and to iPad/iPhone users. that way you'll make google happy and not use the i-Phone/pad people.
But yes there are technologies out there, that you can use to help google crawl your site. But my guess is that they are doing exactly what I mentioned above (just only for google).
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