Good News for Flash Users

It is well known that flash is not the ideal solution for search engines. In 2004 Google came up with a way to pull some text out of the flash file, but it still was not nearly as effective as html based sites. Now a new breakthrough has been made! Google can now crawl content much closer to how it does html, following links to different pages within the flash site. It can also find links that you have in the flash sites to other pages such as your blog of other vendors.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/google-learns-to-crawl-flash.html

This should help you optimize your sites for search engine placement much better! Hopefully yahoo and the other major search engines follow suit so we can enjoy fully indexed flash sites in the future.