Testing Results Of Google Indexing SWF Files
A few days ago, we did a test on Google’s swf indexing capabilities and here’s our new findings. You can try to see the result from Google. We are still testing at the moment, so the actual page may not be reflected in Google.
- Search results link the HTML pages instead of directly linking to swf files. As I mentioned in my previous post, a direct link to swf is as good as not indexing at all because information like swf dimensions and possible parameters set by HTML will be lost and the swf file will not display properly or will not work at all.
- Up to today, Google hasn’t following the links within swf files. What Adobe and Google promised that the spider can click at buttons like humans is not shown yet. We’ve tried various methods of putting the link, flashvars, xml and hard-coded with onRelease and on(release), but none seems to be working.
- Embedding swf using <object> has much higher pick up rate than using the “AC_RunXXXX.js”.
- SWFObject works out of the box, oh yeah!
- Yahoo! doesn’t index swf files at the moment.
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