Comments on: RIAs can get Search Engine friendly now! http://www.mehtanirav.com/2008/07/03/rias-can-get-search-engine-friendly-now Nirav Mehta on life, technology and future Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:19:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Ramesh | The Geek Stuff http://www.mehtanirav.com/2008/07/03/rias-can-get-search-engine-friendly-now/comment-page-1#comment-132373 Ramesh | The Geek Stuff Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:03:55 +0000 http://www.mehtanirav.com/?p=720#comment-132373 Nirav, This is definitely an excellent enhancement to the most valuable google search engine. I just hope we don't get lot of additional unwanted flash websites in the google search results, when we are searching for something, which may make it hard for someone to find what they are looking for. Ramesh <a href="http://www.thegeekstuff.com" rel="nofollow">The Geek Stuff</a> Nirav,

This is definitely an excellent enhancement to the most valuable google search engine.

I just hope we don’t get lot of additional unwanted flash websites in the google search results, when we are searching for something, which may make it hard for someone to find what they are looking for.

Ramesh
The Geek Stuff

]]> By: Jeff http://www.mehtanirav.com/2008/07/03/rias-can-get-search-engine-friendly-now/comment-page-1#comment-132372 Jeff Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:47:57 +0000 http://www.mehtanirav.com/?p=720#comment-132372 This still doesn't help anything. Almost all Flash apps are embedded on the page with SwfObject. SwfObject uses javascript. Javascript is ignored by search engines and your flash will not show up. Here is a quote from Google: "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." This still doesn’t help anything. Almost all Flash apps are embedded on the page with SwfObject. SwfObject uses javascript. Javascript is ignored by search engines and your flash will not show up.

Here is a quote from Google:

“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.”

]]> By: Nirav http://www.mehtanirav.com/2008/07/03/rias-can-get-search-engine-friendly-now/comment-page-1#comment-132367 Nirav Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:40:59 +0000 http://www.mehtanirav.com/?p=720#comment-132367 @Mark: Thanks for the comments. Though I don't think <a href="http://blog.space150.com/2007/1/11/faust-flash-augmenting-standards" rel="nofollow">faust</a> solves the full problem. It gives full control to the developer though. And people have used a lot of similar techniques so that bots index their content. For anyone who wants to know more about faust, check out <a href="http://blog.space150.com/2007/1/11/faust-flash-augmenting-standards" rel="nofollow">space150's blog post on it</a>. @Mark: Thanks for the comments. Though I don’t think faust solves the full problem. It gives full control to the developer though. And people have used a lot of similar techniques so that bots index their content.

For anyone who wants to know more about faust, check out space150’s blog post on it.

]]> By: mark http://www.mehtanirav.com/2008/07/03/rias-can-get-search-engine-friendly-now/comment-page-1#comment-132366 mark Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:26:25 +0000 http://www.mehtanirav.com/?p=720#comment-132366 Yea, but dude, everyone is using swfobject to invoke their swf movies. that is why swfobject is the norm now b/c of the whole MSFT "click-to-activate". flash developers have been getting around the indexing for 5 years now. use faust. Yea, but dude, everyone is using swfobject to invoke their swf movies. that is why swfobject is the norm now b/c of the whole MSFT “click-to-activate”. flash developers have been getting around the indexing for 5 years now. use faust.

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