I’m no Adobe Flash developer but I do love websites that have good Flash interfaces that helps users navigate more easily. Until recently, search engines are known to ignore Flash animation which is the reason why SEOs always recommend using plain text and ordinary html links to make a site more rank well in the search engines. That however will soon be among the “old ways”.
Google Engineer Matt Cutts announce on his blog that Google and Adobe are working to make Flash more search engine friendly. Add to that, Google has just rolled out new code to allow its spiders to index Flash animations on websites. Here’s the post from Matt:
Google gets better at Flash with Adobe’s help
That said, I guess that the demand for Flash developers will skyrocket in the coming days, months and years and we will probably see more and more websites running purely Flash. This definitely pushes the interactivity of the internet a step higher.
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