Comments on: SEO for Flash Websites – SWFObject

By: Thomas Thorstensson

Thomas Thorstensson — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:47:08 +0000

I’ve posted an explanation of why SWFAdress is good for SEO on my blog…

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By: Polprav

Polprav — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:53:39 +0000

Hello from Russia!
Can I quote a post in your blog with the link to you?

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By: Jesper Åström

Jesper Åström — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:49:03 +0000

Thank you SO much for the two examples!! Please publish a post about your examble bonnierbaby.se and I’ll link to it from here with keywords of your choice. Ie. what did you do and what didn’t you do That would be awesome as it is more fun if we do the guide on many different blogs

//Jesper

By: Johan

Johan — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:20:20 +0000

Ok, looking for the full series of articles then

I have only used SWF Object for publishing, but if you use it combined with XML to render a html site that is another story.

Best example of use of SWF Address is http://www.volkswagen.co.uk A really nice site with logic addresses and back/forward in your browser works. Enter no flash version there is a almost as good looking html version of the site.

I only used SWF Address myself once (before I went nuts on using Flash) and that is for http://www.bonnierbaby.se A two year old project publishing flash with SWF Object and using SWF Address. No html fallback though.

By: Jesper Åström

Jesper Åström — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 06:15:35 +0000

Indeed Johan, SWF Object has been around for AGES, and as i say, this will be a series of articles about SEO for flash developers.

I strongly disagree with you when you say that it doesn’t do much for SEO… I haven’t tried JSON yet, but I know that you can pass text content from an XML-file along with your flash movie. This text content can render into a nicely formatted HTML replica of your website. Google reads what’s in your html, content etc. The user gets the Flash experience.

I don’t feel like SWF Address is an option to natural html navigation (and links), but please show me a case that proves me wrong.

//Jeper

By: Johan

Johan — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:23:37 +0000

Sorry to say that SWF Object is really old news for flash programmers, its been around for.. 3-4 years?

In my point of view it doesn’t add that much for SEO either. One way to improve SEO a bit with deep linking it is to use SWF Address. Wrote a post with example Forsman&Bodenfors a while ago: http://www.galveston.se/2009/02/10/forsman-bodenfors-ar-inte-ens-20 but in my post I also mention that you need to use it wisley (logic addresses)

Only other option for good SEO, what I know of, is a complete html fallback