Comments on: Is Flash Good for SEO?

By: Papildai

Papildai — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 19:39:00 +0000

Thanks for the new idea. Great post, hope you won’t stop

By: vestuvine suknele

vestuvine suknele — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 16:39:58 +0000

Is not secret what plane HTML page ir best for seo

By: Ryan Kelly

Ryan Kelly — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 18:57:44 +0000

Hi Simon,

I still feel HTML is the best way to go. You can do a lot with AJAX and javascript now, and even HTML5, where the need for Flash just isn’t really justified in most cases. But on the other hand, Google is getting much better at indexing Flash content (see the link in my previous comment).

By: Simon

Simon — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 18:15:34 +0000

If we are talking about SEO, I think that html is the way to go for bots to track down and index, flash does not really have any SEO value. My friend (who’s an SEO expert) advised me not to use flash in my webpages, but using pictures are great as long as I use alternate text. Do you think that his advice is accurate? I guess flash is ok if you are an expert and you know how to use them appropriately.

By: Ryan Kelly

Ryan Kelly — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 05:43:29 +0000

Thanks for the comment Steve. You might find this recent article from the Google Webmaster blog on how they are getting much better at indexing SWF: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/11/what-feeling-even-better-indexing-of.html

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 19:51:06 +0000

I think another point to raise in regards to Flash is that it’s not only a pain in the neck to optimize for SEO, but also problematic from a usability standpoint. AJAX oriented technologies and the advent of HTML5 are creating better solutions that can be deployed in SEO friendly manners that won’t drive users away.

One of my biggest pet peeves with Flash are taking away user choices, such as pre-load screens, static timed transitions, navigation through Flash, etc. This just ticks a user off and makes them want to leave, on top of being hard to manage from an SEO perspective.

By: Diuretic foods

Diuretic foods — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 13:16:44 +0000

There is difference of amnount of content indexed.?

By: sosbuys

sosbuys — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 15:23:41 +0000

Thanks you for share your article useful for my new flash website

By: Ryan Kelly

Ryan Kelly — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 18:12:37 +0000

Hi Colin,

can you share any specific examples?

By: Colin Hall

Colin Hall — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 11:05:50 +0000

As far as I can see Google has spent the past 12 months incorporating a deep understanding for blogs into it’s algo. Any flash within a blog will be welcomed as a positive thing at the moment, personal site flash is a different matter altogether.