Did you know that a website created entirely using Flash cannot be read by search engines. So forget Flash when it comes to Search Engine Optimisation (SEO). Flash looks great and is useful in capture the audiences attention, but don’t make the website entirely FLASH.
When we view a website entirely created using Flash it looks, well FLASH, as you can see below. Click on the image to enlarge.
Flash Website What WE SEE - Flash Looks Great to us not to search engines
When the GOOGLEBOT (Google Search Engine) crawls through a website designed only using flash it cant read or make sense of the flash file. So all it sees is the page background colour, which is black.
By all means use Flash to Jazz up your website by inserting elements of flash into the design, just avoid using Flash to create the entire website.
Flash Website What GOOGLE SEES WHEN IT INDEXES
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