Fear not…go ahead and upload those Flash files!
Last week, both Yahoo! and Google announced adding a new algorithm. Now, their spiders will crawl Adobe Flash files!
(Keep in mind the following is only related to Google’s new algorithms.)
Flash files of all kinds are now being indexed – buttons, menus, Flash websites, you name it. That way, any text or URL in the file will be indexed in Google searches. The down side: images aren’t indexed yet – we’ll have to wait on that one. Also, if you upload Flash via certain types of JavaScript, the bots won’t recognize the file.
But, more good news?! You don’t even have to do anything! No indexing, or putting your site in a directory! Just sit back and watch for your Flash file to show up on Google (and Yahoo!).
November 19th, 2009 at 6:01 pm
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