Published by Jon Roberts
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For several years now SEO practitioners have told us that Flash websites are bad for search engine optimization, claiming that as Flash relies heavily on images with very little, if any, text.  Therefore, how can search engines possibliy index a website.

I began to really suspect that this thinking is slightly flored, afterall check any typical search in Google and you will find several Flash websites in the top 100 for any given search, therefore Google must be indexing something.

It could well be that these sites are solely relying on links, but I don’t think that this is the whole situation.  Google PageRank for instance, looks at the value of your content conpared to other sites, (yes this does include inbound links) and rates them accordingly.

To help answer this situation Jonathan Hochman has written an excellent article, you can find this article at:

http://www.hochmanconsultants.com/articles/seo-friendly-flash.shtml