SEO expert Bruce Clay gives us an up-to-date look at how effectively search engines can index Flash text, movie soundtracks, and links. After commenting on ability to spider Flash links, he explains continuing problems with complex, dynamic links created by Content Management Systems (CMS).
How does a Flash object fit into the link graph? I think a simple way is to forget about pagination, and view the entire Flash object as a regular web-page object, so there is text and links coming from it. But how can a Flash object have links pointing to it? Most of the time Internet users don't link to the object itself, but rather the web-page that embeds it.
In the future we will be asking, "Can Google crawl and index the displayed contents of an HTML 5 Canvas tag?
FutureEvan 1 year ago