FlexBandit » htmlText http://flexbandit.com Yet another Flex enthusiast? You Betcha! Sun, 04 Dec 2011 15:34:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Flash Search Engine Capability http://flexbandit.com/archives/46 http://flexbandit.com/archives/46#comments Sat, 13 Dec 2008 11:49:35 +0000 donkeybandit http://flexbandit.com/?p=46 Flash Player 10 has been out for a while now, so I decided to test the claims that Google and other search engines can now effectively crawl the Text inside a SWF. Historically, I found that a SWF would be identified but would not be displayed correctly in the search results. This has now been solved.

To test the functionality I searched for “Clarisolve” in Google, which has a lot of freely visible text and did not display correctly before FP10. I then entered the search string “Clarisolve ClearCollect” and the results displayed from a specific page on the site. Clarisolve has an html shadow site so I checked to see if it was being picked up instead of the flash version. The results actually displayed both the html and SWF version.

At this time unfortunately I have not implemented deep linking on the Clarisolve site, so no matter what you choose in Google it will always go to the home page. Still this is better than a blank SWF that barely caches right?

The next step will be to determine how SEO works with Flash/Flex text has we don’t have the luxury of traditional html text to add “h” tags.

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