Comments on: Top 3 questions about Google – Adobe Flash indexing & SEO http://www.socrata.com/uncategorized/top-3-questions-about-google-adobe-flash-indexing-seo/ Making Data Social - Open Data Services for Government Fri, 11 May 2012 17:03:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Lady J talks http://www.socrata.com/uncategorized/top-3-questions-about-google-adobe-flash-indexing-seo/#comment-7016 Lady J talks Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:50:51 +0000 http://blog.socrata.com/index.php/2008/07/07/top-3-questions-about-google-adobe-flash-indexing-seo/#comment-7016 Thank you so much for making this list of articles. I surely will pass them on. There has been a real push lately for flash content which I think is great but truly there are sites like MicroSoft office live sites that do not play with javascript. Thank heaven that many of the sites I build things with have all the different variation and make a code that plays well with my chosen ad sites. Will be very interesting to see how this plays out. It's nice to think that perhaps I will finally be able to get my little diddis to play with out having to change the code for so many. I hope that's the goal here in the end. ps. anyone know some free soft ware that can easily change videos over to youTubes format...LJ Thank you so much for making this list of articles. I surely will pass them on. There has been a real push lately for flash content which I think is great but truly there are sites like MicroSoft office live sites that do not play with javascript. Thank heaven that many of the sites I build things with have all the different variation and make a code that plays well with my chosen ad sites. Will be very interesting to see how this plays out. It’s nice to think that perhaps I will finally be able to get my little diddis to play with out having to change the code for so many. I hope that’s the goal here in the end.

ps. anyone know some free soft ware that can easily change videos over to youTubes format…LJ

]]> By: Andrea Hill http://www.socrata.com/uncategorized/top-3-questions-about-google-adobe-flash-indexing-seo/#comment-7017 Andrea Hill Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:13:44 +0000 http://blog.socrata.com/index.php/2008/07/07/top-3-questions-about-google-adobe-flash-indexing-seo/#comment-7017 I'm thankful for that sixth finger! :) As for the three questions above, here's my speculation: 1. I believe it will be ranked lower. It's generally accepted that semantic markup in HTML helps your ranking. Text within a flash file won't have such markup, so everything within the flash will have equal ranking. It wouldn't make sense for it to be ranked as highly as the HTML, therefore. 2. I did see mention that while google would index externally linked files from within the flash, it would treat them as separate assets. I assumed this to mean they would (also?) show up in the search results as separate filetypes. I actually had assumed .swfs would show up like this too (there is already filetype:swf available in the advanced search), not as completely integrated as some seem to assume they will be. 3. I have NO IDEA how deep-linking will be achieved, I'm really interested to see how it is managed. I don't see a way for a search engine spider to determine the appropriate deep-links simple from engaging within the .swf. Perhaps sitemaps are about to become even more important?? I’m thankful for that sixth finger! :)

As for the three questions above, here’s my speculation:
1. I believe it will be ranked lower. It’s generally accepted that semantic markup in HTML helps your ranking. Text within a flash file won’t have such markup, so everything within the flash will have equal ranking. It wouldn’t make sense for it to be ranked as highly as the HTML, therefore.

2. I did see mention that while google would index externally linked files from within the flash, it would treat them as separate assets. I assumed this to mean they would (also?) show up in the search results as separate filetypes. I actually had assumed .swfs would show up like this too (there is already filetype:swf available in the advanced search), not as completely integrated as some seem to assume they will be.

3. I have NO IDEA how deep-linking will be achieved, I’m really interested to see how it is managed. I don’t see a way for a search engine spider to determine the appropriate deep-links simple from engaging within the .swf. Perhaps sitemaps are about to become even more important??

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