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 Google Is Indexing Flash Links

3. July 2008
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Search Engine War published a post today outlining a test they conducted to see if Googlebot is really following URL's embedded in SWF files. It looks like they are! They are crawling links in SWF files placed on a page with embed tags, and with SWFObject. They are even crawling links in hidden layers.

 Search Engine War also coined the term "flash bombing".  Basically they are saying it may be possible to embed tons of links in a flash file to get them crawled by Google. Sneaky! Search Engine War is planning further testing of Google's ability to crawl and index SWF file content and links.

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Nesco Food Dehydrator
Nesco Food Dehydrator
7/11/2008 8:26:03 PM #
And all this time we were told 'no flash, no flash, no flash' - somebody now has to rewrite all those pages. Google never stops innovating...love them or hate them but they do push technology forward.
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7/18/2008 6:11:27 PM #
This is great news. A new way for webmasters to get visitors from google
Straightalk
Straightalk
7/28/2008 12:33:50 PM #
Pretty cool huh, who the hech ever thought this was seriously going to happen !!

Well, another for the raod here..

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website designer
website designer
7/28/2008 10:10:08 PM #
Nice to hear you, especially flash developer may happy, but it is good if the they(google) find any technology for crawl text from swf file.
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Hire website designer India
8/4/2008 3:28:34 AM #
This is really a new way for increasing the traffic to your website. I will surely use it soon Smile

Thanks for sharing the info
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web design company
11/13/2008 1:09:40 PM #
Search engines are getting smarter. PDF is an excellent example which now gets indexed as easily as standard html. A few years ago pdf files could not be indext at all wheras now I get an excellent rank for some of my pdf files which were not even meant to get indexed.
SSAS
SSAS
11/13/2008 1:10:59 PM #
Its about time flash files got indexed. Flash has been a leading web technology for many years now. It was only ametter of time search engines began to index flash files.
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