Search Engines Will Be Able To Search Swf Files

The biggest problem of swf files at the moment is they can not be read from spiders of search engines. But Adobe is changing that. Adobe make it official announcement today which will make big change soon. Adobe start to work with Google and Yahoo for make the swf files readable to spiders of search engines.

Well, how will work? Actually at the moment no one doesn’t really know, but as I read search engines will be able to detect the buttons and links in swf files. You can think of this link as in HTML. This is just a small example. Off course still is open to discussion how will be the search engine optimization?

Or the classic question : How can we make our web site more visible in search engines?

Technically, there is no one can give you perfect answer. Search engines change there algorithm, they are always making better and is not only one. There are more than one effect of how search engines works.

I was trying to find an answer to those questions, and I was making test and experiments on web pages of my costumers. Basically at the moment it doesn’t matter Flash or HTML you can make search engines to index it. Of course this is a bit of painful, especially for flash. I hope Adobe, Google and Yahoo will solve that problem soon.

Shortly new generation of Flash Player will be able to open it self to spiders of Google and Yahoo. And spiders of search engines now will recognize swf files. So we can say Flash Players and Spiders soon will understand each other and hopefully Flash/Flex Developer doesn’t have to write hundred lines of extra codes.

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