David Flatley » search engines http://www.davidflatley.com A RIA developer's late night ramblings and other nonsense Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:02:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc SWF file format becomes SEO friendly http://www.davidflatley.com/2008/07/01/swf-file-format-becomes-seo-friendly/ http://www.davidflatley.com/2008/07/01/swf-file-format-becomes-seo-friendly/#comments Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:47:52 +0000 Dave http://www.davidflatley.com/?p=53 Just read on the Washington Post that Adobe is working with Google and Yahoo to make SWFs readable/visible to search engines. Completely awesome news! That’s been a major draw back for other Flash/Flex developers for years, that the search engines can’t read content inside a swf . The article states that this is a first step, it’s not a complete answer, but it’s progress.

I’ll have to look into this more as time permits. Is this a technology/API that we as developers work into our apps? Or, it seems from the article that it’s going to be part of the Flash Player itself in conjunction with Yahoo/Google’s technology so there may be no new steps needed to get your Flash/Flex app or website indexed on the biggies.


I’ve been horrendously busy lately so I haven’t kept up-to-date on my blog-sponsibility…my humble apologies. I’ve promised the late night code-high induced ramblings will not cease, in fact, in the very near future they may become more intense. In the meantime, this was a very cool read and one I’ll have to keep up on to see where it goes.

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