About Flash
Posted on September 28th, 2008 by Web Freak under For Your KnowledgeFlash gets a bad rap, undeserved in my opinion, for harming search engine visibility. Why are search engine optimization (SEO) practitioners concerned about Flash Templates, and how can we SEO Flash content? Flash content is often heavy on images and interactive features, and light on text. As of 2008, the leading search engines are heavily dependant on text to understand the meaning of pages.
We all know the leading Web Development tool i.e The Dreamweaver from Adobe, it encourages Flash and we can edit Flash intros etc. using it
The April 11, 2006 release of Microsoft’s popular Internet Explorer (IE) browser includes an update (“Eolas”) that prevents ActiveX-based Flash controls from working properly. When the user attempts to interact with the Flash, a tool tip appears, stating, “Click to activate and use this control.” That extra click is an annoyance. In addition to helping search engines, the programming techniques described in this article solve the Flash Eolas problem.
Requirements for Successful Use of Flash
Flash animation is a great way to present complex content because it allows the designer to put more content in a finite space, without wrecking page design. For technology sites, Flash is an ideal way to present a slide show or movie explaining a complex product. At the other end of the spectrum, art and entertainment sites have a real need for multimedia, and Flash is the perfect solution.
When using Flash, we’d like to satisfy each of these objectives:
- Clean design
- Search Engine Optimization
- Accessibility for a wide variety of browsers, including screen readers and mobile phones
- Code validation and standards compliance
- Correct functionality with IE
Flash is not used much these days due to better technologies than flash, Free Templates aren’t RARE, but still used in a little sum..
Flash is great for promo sites, but it should not be used everywhere just for the sake of making page look better. If the design sucks without flash it will most surely suck with flash on it as well.
hmm,, but the most important thing is, flash provide beautiful advertising media, far better than standard image banner one
I like using flash in the header of a site at the top. Depending on the site layout, the navigation either goes above or below it horizontally. Even using a little flash in the body of the site adds a nice touch to scroll through images while they can still read the text either below or next to the flash itself. I do stay away from creating a site entirely in flash just because the SE’s cannot read any of it.
An entire website built in Flash will prevent indexing of your site by the search engines. Limited use, can be attractive and useful, but but make sure there is plenty of SEO food (text content) on your pages.
Nice post, but I think flash is not so good. Sure it’s really nice and such but that are many people that doesn’t have flash and that make it bad.