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royal
03-14-2012, 03:29 AM
Hi Everyone,
Search engines dislike Flash Web sites not because of their artistic qualities (or the lack of these) but because Flash movies are too complex for a spider to understand. Spiders cannot index a Flash movie directly, as they do with a plain page of text. Spiders index file-names (and you can find tons of these on the Web), but not the contents inside.

Flash movies come in a proprietary binary format (.swf) and spiders cannot read the insides of a Flash file, at least not without assistance. And even with assistance, do not count that spiders will crawl and index all your Flash content. And this is true for all search engines. There might be differences in how search engines weigh page relevancy but in their approach to Flash, at least for the time beings, search engines are really united – they hate it but they index portions of it.

jamsen
03-02-2013, 10:21 AM
Flash requires bandwidth
“There are still lots of people surfing the Net via dialup or other limited bandwidth connection. Flash files, especially those using sound effects, embedded movies or bitmap images, can take a while to load.”

sabrinasai
03-04-2013, 12:26 AM
If you're using Flash for your web site, you will experience the following problems: If there is text in the Flash animation, most search engines won't be able to index that text; likewise, if there are links to other web sites or pages embedded in Flash, search engines can't follow those links as well. Thus, if you build your entire site on Flash, it will not be visible to search engines at all.
Macromedia, the inventor of Flash, is working closely with search engines to help them index Flash content- with some success: Google e.g. is known to, at least partially, index Flash sites.

jamesanalyst123
05-17-2013, 12:17 AM
Not all search engines are able to crawl and index websites having flash videos (http://www.softwaysolutions.com/3d-animation-interactive-company-services-houston-texas-uk-europe.html). Even those that can, end up making some errors. It is for this reason that website designers should avoid including flash videos in the websites designed by them.

webcreations
05-17-2013, 12:40 AM
The search engine world has stressed the negative effects of using Flash on your website.This is true and there are some different reasons why search engines really hate flash site:
(1) Spider Crawling Issues:When you run Flash on your website, the spiders are unable to crawl your website to figure out what that area contains.
(2) Block The Essentials: Flash doesn’t provide the unique URLs for the different pages on your site making it impossible for search engines to identify specific pages.
(3) Snail Spee: Flash takes more time to load than a normal web page. Flash websites take longer to load because there is much more rich media content featured on the page.
(4) Lack of Link Value:Any links that are added or hyperlinked on Flash are invisible to the search engines since the spiders cannot crawl it.

Markgibson431
05-18-2013, 03:58 AM
Flash movies come in a proprietary binary format (.swf) and spiders cannot read the insides of a Flash file, at least not without assistance. And even with assistance, do not count that spiders will crawl and index all your Flash content. And this is true for all search engines. There might be differences in how search engines weigh page relevancy but in their approach to Flash, at least for the time beings, search engines are really united – they hate it but they index portions of it.

stefijain
05-18-2013, 05:45 AM
it is really a nice discussion on flash website, thanks for your all the comments. I will remember and will never work on flash website.

terrijhon
05-20-2013, 01:10 AM
The search engine world has stressed the negative effects of using Flash on your website.This is true and there are some different reasons why search engines really hate flash site:
(1) Spider Crawling Issues:When you run Flash on your website, the spiders are unable to crawl your website to figure out what that area contains.
(2) Block The Essentials: Flash doesn’t provide the unique URLs for the different pages on your site making it impossible for search engines to identify specific pages.
(3) Snail Spee: Flash takes more time to load than a normal web page. Flash websites take longer to load because there is much more rich media content featured on the page.
(4) Lack of Link Value:Any links that are added or hyperlinked on Flash are invisible to the search engines since the spiders cannot crawl it.
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vikas_patel
02-04-2015, 12:03 AM
Thanks for sharing nice information.

rousellwall
02-04-2015, 02:37 AM
Agree with you that Google bots are unable to understand Flash features. This one is really great discussion. Thanks for sharing valuable opinion and information about Flash sites.

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aapnabazar
02-04-2015, 07:39 AM
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deepakrajput
02-04-2015, 01:47 PM
It also reduce your website SEO, performance, traffic because of it's page load speed is slow.