Google has always advised web designers that fully integrated flash sites are not going to rank well in their search engine. Finally they have posted an indexing guideline for flash websites. In googles recent post they are stating that they have improved the ability to index textual content in SWF files of all kinds. The most inovating discovery is the ability to scan URL's that appear in Flash files, and feeding them into the google crawling pipe. Although, Google is making a postive step towards Flash websites, there are still numerous amount of limitations that involve;

1. Googlebot does not execute some types of JavaScript. So if your web page loads a Flash file via JavaScript, Google may not be aware of that Flash file, in this case it will not be indexed.

2. We currently do not attach content from external resources that are loaded by your Flash files. If your Flash file loads an HTML file, an XML file, another SWF file, etc., Google will separately index that resource, but it will not yet be considered to be part of the content in your Flash file.

3. While we are able to index Flash in almost all of the languages found on the web, currentlythere are difficulties with Flash content written in bidirectional languages. Until this is fixed, we will be unable to index Hebrew language or Arabic language content from Flash files.

 

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