Comments on: Advancements in Rich Media Search on the Web http://www.libertyinteractivemarketing.com/blog/advancements-in-rich-media-search-on-the-web/ Internet Marketing and SEO in Phoenix, AZ Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:41:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 By: Tbone Malone http://www.libertyinteractivemarketing.com/blog/advancements-in-rich-media-search-on-the-web/comment-page-1/#comment-11 Tbone Malone Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:59:22 +0000 http://www.libertyinteractivemarketing.com/blog/?p=40#comment-11 My first reaction was "who cares Flash sites still are annoying." And you still shouldn't have your important content in Flash. Don't get me wrong. I was interested too when I first read this. There is quite a bit of chatter from Flash developers that this doesn't really solve anything. I'm not a Flash developer but apparently the way Google does not associate the XML files with the Flash files makes the "reading of text" useless. Here is one such comment. 2. We currently do not attach content from external resources that are loaded by your Flash files. If your Flash file loads an HTML file, an XML file, another SWF file, etc., Google will separately index that resource, but it will not yet be considered to be part of the content in your Flash file." --Wait, you aren't indexing content loaded by XML files? Isn't that like all the content worth crawling? Large Flash sites rely on this for ALL their content, can you elaborate further? http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/06/improved-flash-indexing.html My first reaction was “who cares Flash sites still are annoying.” And you still shouldn’t have your important content in Flash. Don’t get me wrong. I was interested too when I first read this. There is quite a bit of chatter from Flash developers that this doesn’t really solve anything.

I’m not a Flash developer but apparently the way Google does not associate the XML files with the Flash files makes the “reading of text” useless. Here is one such comment.
2. We currently do not attach content from external resources that are loaded by your Flash files. If your Flash file loads an HTML file, an XML file, another SWF file, etc., Google will separately index that resource, but it will not yet be considered to be part of the content in your Flash file.”

–Wait, you aren’t indexing content loaded by XML files? Isn’t that like all the content worth crawling? Large Flash sites rely on this for ALL their content, can you elaborate further?

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/06/improved-flash-indexing.html

]]> By: Liberty http://www.libertyinteractivemarketing.com/blog/advancements-in-rich-media-search-on-the-web/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Liberty Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:54:21 +0000 http://www.libertyinteractivemarketing.com/blog/?p=40#comment-10 Thanks Martin, great stuff here. Thanks Martin, great stuff here.

]]> By: Martin Kulakowski http://www.libertyinteractivemarketing.com/blog/advancements-in-rich-media-search-on-the-web/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Martin Kulakowski Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:02:12 +0000 http://www.libertyinteractivemarketing.com/blog/?p=40#comment-9 You'll find some interesting chatter about this in the Comments section at TechCrunch. http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/30/once-nearly-invisible-to-search-engines-flash-files-can-now-be-found-and-indexed/ You’ll find some interesting chatter about this in the Comments section at TechCrunch.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/30/once-nearly-invisible-to-search-engines-flash-files-can-now-be-found-and-indexed/

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