We have been running a test of Flash content inside Google for quite a while. Google started indexing text inside a Flash movie back in 2006. We never proved they were actually following action script links so we decided to put up the Flash test again and see if we pull different results.
We intentionally took the file down for 5 months to clear the cache out of Google. Now we posted it again with only a change to the date in the first file.
But are they indexing animated Flash Frames?
We have reason to believe that Google is actually indexing each frame in Flash. Our Flash developers are testing a Flash animation with 12,000 frames and a keyword at the end. It appears that Google has been banging away at the file with a vengeance but we don't see the keyword in search results pages to date.
We won't point to the test file in the blog until we can prove our hypotheses with certainty.
We should see results in the next few weeks if our last Flash in Google test has any hint to the outcome.
3 comments:
I know that in the past google wasn;t able to index flash frames but they say at that time that they work for improve indexing and in the future they will be able to index flash frames!
Any update about your experiment? Please share - i m looking for the same.
This time they did not cache the text of the swf file. We have been hitting the surrounding page(s) with text links but no luck on the swf itself.
Which is odd because they picked it up quickly last time.
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