Hey Bobby and thanks for your kind words! > This is what I see when I type in the query (both the HTML page and > SWF indexing results are displayed as 2 seperate search results, > however clustered together, the SWF hierarchical under the HTML > page):http://www.bobbyvandersluis.com/swfobject/img/google_deepimpact_20081... > > If you just take a look at the source code of the HTML page, there is > no alternative content included, so this might not be the best test > case after all :-( > > When you read the QA on > googlewebmastercentral:http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/06/improved-flash-ind... > > The 3 quotes under "Interaction of HTML pages and Flash" give a good > indication of Google's new direction: > > "The text found in Flash files is treated similarly to text found in > other files, such as HTML, PDFs, etc. If the Flash file is embedded in > HTML (as many of the Flash files we find are), its content is > associated with the parent URL and indexed as single entity."
You are correct, that is what Google says but it doesn't seem to be what they are doing. That is why I'm sharing my research. As your image clearly illustrates, Google isn't associating text content in Flash with the correct parent URL or indexing both as a single entity. > "Serving the same content in Flash and an alternate HTML version could > cause us to find duplicate content. This won't cause a penalty -- we > don’t lower a site in ranking because of duplicate content. Be aware, > though, that search results will most likely only show one version, > not both." Exactly, serving the same content won't result in a penalty but may result in one version being filtered from search results at Google's discretion. > IMO good web authoring techniques should work now and in 5 years from > now, while SEO techniques usually only stand the test of time when > they overlap with good web authoring techniques. I couldn't agree more! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SWFObject" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/swfobject?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
