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By: Google updates Flash content indexing | Peter Elst | Adobe Tutorials

Google updates Flash content indexing | Peter Elst | Adobe Tutorials — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 12:08:19 +0000

[...] I wonder if it also works with Flash remoting , e.g. AMFPHP? If it's resolved in the fashion that TK references above, it's terrible really Read more: Google updates Flash content indexing | Peter Elst [...]

By: Jeff Fall

Jeff Fall — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:22:26 +0000

Tools… Where are the tools for this? Tools you ask, what tools exactly?

Basically I would like to see a tool for this google SWF indexing that would allow me to put my flash site on an public facing page and have a google tool that would show me what it is going to index.

This information wouldn’t be made publicly accessible, it would just be information that a developer could use to make sure that Google is seeing his project correctly before it goes live.

By: Ain

Ain — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 23:16:51 +0000

I wonder if it also works with Flash remoting, e.g. AMFPHP? If it's resolved in the fashion that TK references above, it's terrible really.

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:42:56 +0000

@zedia – I’m not convinced that didn’t work before, from my initial tests when it was first announced it seems they did manage to do that. The only difference being the SWF files would get indexed on separate URLs.

What they announced yesterday puts data discovered through the headless Flash Player in context to the originating SWF.

@TK – I think that is a very valid concern and one I was also wondering about. Don’t have a definitive answer, but using a robots.txt is easy enough and never been a believer of SWF as a means to obfuscate calls to the server.

I think its fair to assume as a fact of life that URLs in any client side technology can get indexed and you can prevent that by using the robots.txt directive.

By: TK

TK — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:25:35 +0000

And what if the buttons that google clicks for us trigger database transactions/persistence operations? I for one am not excited about this overhead.

By: zedia.net

zedia.net — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:37:25 +0000

This was a much needed step towards good Flash SEO. Nearly all the website I build use external preloader so none of them could get indexed. Now they can start working on the troublesome topic of giving different value for different content inside the swf.