Flash Widgets and SEO

Posted on July 15, 2008
Filed Under NewsGatorWidgets |

I’m still not sold on the notion that Flash can be search optimized… it’s also one very big reason to not use Flash widget containers. NewsGator supports both but HTML/Javascript has many advantages beyond simply SEO, like the fact that it’s 1/40th the size of Flash containers, can be dynamically resized, and can be developed much more quickly.

I know, I know. Google’s indexing Flash and Flash developers can rejoice now that their content is SEO-friendly. Sorry - I don’t buy it for a second. Flash content is fundamentally different from HTML on webpage URLs and being able to parse links in the Flash code and text snippets does not make Flash search-engine friendly. I think it’s great that Google’s digging deeper into Flash, but I don’t believe web developers should be any less wary than they’ve been in the past about Flash-based websites or Flash-embedded content.

[From SEOmoz | Flash and SEO - Compelling Reasons Why Search Engines & Flash Still Don’t Mix]

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