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How Google Sees Some Flash Websites

6th March 2012 by Alan Leave a Comment

The following illustrates why flash sites are not exactly great when it come to Google & SEO.

You can see that this site has only has one page indexed  (to check how many pages are indexed on your domain type site:www.yourdomain.com into Google), despite many flash pages.

You can also see that Google’s bot was presented with in effect an error message (in this case I believe from Wix) – hey you bot you can’t read flash so go away!

There are things that you can do to optimise a flash site for Google, but that is mainly creating a duplicate html site (instead of the ‘you can’t read flash’ screen presented here) for robots and browsers that can’t read flash.

But as nearly everything can be done now with html / css and javascript this seems to be a bit of duplicated effort.

What are your thoughts on flash only websites or website that contain a lot of flash?

Filed Under: SEO  Tagged: Flash, Google, SEO

About Alan

I'm Alan from Fullworks Digital Ltd, where I develop WordPress Plugins and support and manage WordPress websites.

My day job consists of solving clients' WordPress issues and developing new code and solutions.

I started as a professional programmer in 1979 and had been involved with the IT of business technology in virtually every area that exist.

Badlywired.com is my personal blog and my aide memoire of the many interesting facts that I come across. As I spend a lot of time gathering parts of solutions from the internet and assembling them into my own solutions, and also just learning how to do things, this blog is primarily my 'note book' and a way of giving something back to the online community that has helped me extensively.

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