Boy, is that Googlebot quick these days…
So, it only five days ago when I started my little swf experiment, and I got results fairly quickly. Here’s what I did:
As you can see from the previous post, there’s a little two frame flash movie, which on the canvas looks a little something like this…
Now, hidden behind that creepy image is some text…
And I embedded the code into vancouver-seo.com like so…
<embed pluginspage=”http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer” src=”http://www.keith-greene.com/google-test.swf” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash”></embed>
And five days later, I see this in the ol’ Googley index…
As I suspected, Google pulls the text from the first frame of the first dynamic text box on the first layer for the index results… but here’s the clincher, lets take a look at the quote from the old Google Webmaster Blog about “Improved Flash Spidering“
Googlebot does not execute some types of JavaScript. So if your web page loads a Flash file via JavaScript, Google may not be aware of that Flash file, in which case it will not be indexed.
So far, Javascript is still no good, but EMBED codes are a-okay…
What have we learned? Well, Flash fanatics shouldn’t get too gooey in the knickers just yet. Its still pretty ugly, and it still has a nifty [FLASH] indicator beside it to let everyone know you’ve paid for (or pirated) Adobe Creative Suite.
What did I learn? I learned that to keep the keyword density of my vancouver seo site, is to keep reminding myself and others that this is a blog about SEO in the city of Vancouver, Canada.
Subtle, no?