Comments on: Search SWF – Missing Link

By: Sönke

Sönke — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:05:52 +0000

Andrew, if you want more details about what is index check out the video interview with justin everett-church: http://theflashblog.com/?p=411

By: all different search engines

all different search engines — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 09:28:48 +0000

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By: Sönke

Sönke — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:44:49 +0000

I will do!

By: Andrew Odri

Andrew Odri — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:24:35 +0000

Yeah, I would have figured by the way that they describe there custom flash player worked that it would have just read the content as it sees it. And yeah, what about serialized content, or SWX content or anything else?

I am intensely curious to see how results get listed though, how they choose to reference pages that are not deep linked and so forth.

Be sure to post an update on what you find out for us all!

By: Sönke

Sönke — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:15:58 +0000

Hi Andrew, thanks for your comment. I must say that I thought this would already work. What happens for instance with dynamic content which is loaded via remoting. This can not be listed as a seperate search result. Anyway, let’s wait when the first results pop up in Google and SEO best practices will come and hopefully the XML, HTML and SWF thing is also a matter of time.

By: Andrew Odri

Andrew Odri — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:19:09 +0000

Hey Sonke, from what I could ascertain from the Google post on the subject, we are not quiet there with the dynamic content yet :S I was hoping too…

From the post:
(http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/06/improved-flash-indexing.html)
Q: What are the current technical limitations of Google’s ability to index Flash?
There are three main limitations at present, and we are already working on resolving them:

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.

So that’s a bit of pain… Google will list your XML resource in the search results, but not your website. Although the fact that they said they are making progress on the issue is great sign