Comments on: 6 Visual Optimization Mistakes

By: joyoge designers' bookmark

joyoge designers' bookmark — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:06:10 +0000

nice list, thanks for tips..

By: Shay Howe

Shay Howe — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:19:30 +0000

@Sven Miller and Patrick

Thanks for information and links! I typically do not do a lot of work in Flash and was unaware Google had officially announced that they were indexing Flash sites, my apologies. I do ask though, what if your Flash website is pulling content from a database, will Google index it then? Or, what if your content is buried within a sub page and your flash site is not using a unique URL for each page – how does Google link to it?

While Google may be able to index Flash I still think there are quite a bit of pitfalls to anyone serious about SEO.

@Luc

You are correct, thank you for pointing this out. I have edited the text to reflect this.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:12:04 +0000

Re: Do Not Use Flash

Whilst I agree that Flash shuold be used judicously, Google is able to index flash content.

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/06/flash-indexing-with-external-resource.html

Cheers
Patrick

By: Luc

Luc — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 12:38:32 +0000

Being pedantic, alt isn’t a tag, it’s an attribute of a tag…

By: Sven Miller

Sven Miller — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 08:39:17 +0000

Great article Shay,
One correction when it comes to Flash, as of June 18th Google does index Flash content, even linked content.
Have a look at Google’s webmaster blog, to read the whole announcement.