Google Can Now Index . . . Flash!
Not many people seem to know, or perhaps care about it. The SEO world has lived long enough without it to work around it but now you dont need to
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Question:
Michael, how do we know that Google is currently indexing the contents of Flash files? Is there a way that we can search the index just for Flash?
Michael Marshall:
Yes. You can enter your search term in Google, and along with that search term, use the filetype operator and restrict your search to the file extension ".swf". This will search for your search term only in Macromedia Flash files. You should see [FLASH] just before each listing in the results page that is a Flash document.
For example, put the following in the search box at Google:
"Best Free Banner Exchange Market" filetype:swf
Question:
How can we extract the text found in a Flash file to see what Google sees?
Michael Marshall:
Macromedia has a Flash Search Engine SDK that will give us just what we need. The SDK (Software Development Kit) includes an application named 'swf2html'. Swf2html extracts text and links from a Macromedia Flash .SWF file, and returns the data to stdout or as an HTML document. Swf2html is provided as a compiled application and as a static library for linked library implementation. For complete functionality, see the file Readme.htm included in the SDK."
Question:
Do you have an example of a Flash file that we can see, as well as an example of the text that the Macromedia tool extracted from the Flash file?
Michael Marshall:
Yes. I have an example of each. If you look at the extracted output in Web page format, you will see that it is not very pretty. Nevertheless, you've got lots of SEO-worthy content there, and that's what we are most concerned with. You should visit the Flash presentation itself, mouse over the text, and clïck the links in the presentation so you can be familiar with the Flash presentation. You can compare where certain text appears in the Flash presentation and where it is found in the extracted text.
Example of Flash file:
[link]
Example of extracted text:
[link]
(Note: This Flash example is based on one of Michael's own products. However, I chose to use it for two reasons: 1) because of the many different types of Flash involved; and, 2) because it is a text-heavy Flash example, as opposed to many other examples of Flash that I could have chosen to use.
Added Note: Be sure to highlight the entire page by clicking on Ctrl A)
In the output file, you'll notice that some text seems to be repeated on multiple lines and one portion of it even appears invisible since the font color comes out white. This is just a side effect of the conversion/extraction tool and is not really invisible text and is not spamming in any manner.
In other words, you're doing nothing wrong when this happens – it's simply due to the tool itself and not sp@mming or true invisible text.
Full article
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This is great news for all, enjoy
-ntshp
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thanks a bunch for the flash help
hope u don' mind me putting u on the friends list
comments? .. hopefully later .. time is scarce
cheese mate
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Glad to help, just drop a comment/note if you need any flash help
No I don't mind, the more the better
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Worse... I couldnt explain how it did! i'm still trying to work out how it is fragile. I suppose its like, time is a fragile thing because in that fleeting moment you had a chance... an opportunity to do something, and you lost it in that fleeting moment. time is fragile because you can't replace lost time. you cant change what just happened.
Make sense?
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