Having problems with Flex and SEO? Help may be on the way...
Wed, 2007-03-28 14:24 — mikepotter
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The Guardian has a very interesting interview with Google's Dan Crow, who is the product manager of crawl services at Google. A few highlights that might be interesting for rich Internet application developers building solutions with Flash and Flex:
BJ: Are you working with Adobe to build better crawling data into applications like Flash?
DC: I can't talk about that.
BJ: Because Flex and Apollo would offer a new chance to find a baseline.
DC: Absolutely. That's not an unsensible observation. We clearly need to figure this out... it's not been the highest on our priority list, but in the last six months it has become more so.
Nice. Can't wait to see what they come up with.
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Comments
Yawn...
Another solution in search of a problem.
Flex builds applications not pages. Why the hell would anyone want Google to index their application?
What next, a petition because they didn't crawl your copy of winword.exe?
not agree
There are several situations where you want to be indexed by google, for example when developing applications like online stores or hotel reservations, to mention only two.
I hope they go straight with this issue and offer a solution sooner than later... (we've been waitin' so much for this)
theklue
seconded...
I also don't agree with the first comment. There are times you want your Flex/Flash app indexed. Flash is certainly not only for applications...and neither is Flex. No one said that's what you need to use it for. Plus the way the web is heading web sites and "applications" are coming together. Take for example a blog or something done with Flex...you'd most definitely want that indexed and crawled. Should be interesting to see though because the search engine algorythms could get weird...and as a result, the SERPs could change drastically. For exaxmple the tag in html has a lot to do with things and other tags...which don't exist in Flash. So....what happens then? Point size? How to protect against black hat SEO tactics, etc. However I really can't wait for Google to get a handle on this.