Comments on: Flash Rocks!

By: RL

RL — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 18:15:37 +0000

I love Flash.
If I had my way, there would only be Flash … Why?
Apart from Wiki sites, rarely are there any ‘engaging’ sites made with anything else.
AS2 has been heavily criticized in the past, fairly so in some cases … but AS3, I believe, is THE most elegant scripting language and if you fancy yourself a programmer – surely this should be your first/only choice.
It is a one stop solution (ok apart from attaching to a database, where using a server script is more secure). Why use competing technologies, bolting CSS onto AJAX onto PHP on to … yawn, where you have everything in one language working perfectly.
As a designer? It should be your first port of call… how else can you realise your designs? Silverlight? Nice … but that’s more for developers and hasn’t taken the world by storm as MS would have liked.
Although AJAX allows you to load content dynamically … Flash has been doing this for years.
SEO, is pretty easy to do in Flash, more so now than 18 months ago, it doesn’t take much effort to do … depending how far you want to take it.
Flash is also the best/most efficient way to incorporate video; music; animations, etc. and as a user (I am not speaking as a developer/designer) this is what I want expect from a site.
Link it with PHP and you have a fabulous front end for databases.
Flash is a no brainer … get over it and get on with it and the internet experience will be a far more rewarding place to be. As a user – that is what I want my few hours a day on the internet to be.

By: SEO News and SEO Tips from SEO Expert » Blog Archive » Top 5 SEO for Flash Tutorials

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:59:32 +0000

[...] project and creating another one. I want to concentrate on #3 as there are still some cases where Flash rocks, even when the site is done completely in Adobe [...]

By: Diogo

Diogo — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:20:35 +0000

“Car sites that show the cars from different angles, animated and with zoom functions rock although I ride a bike and use public transport.”

Thats what I call unnecessary visual info.

“People who can afford Flash sites also can pay well for SEO. In most instances the results are great as Google really almost ignores Flash so after creating a parallel HTML version the clients are satisfied.”

I’m impressed someone that said this released publications about this issue. We all know that flash is not necessarily expensive, not necessarily beautiful or ugly. But I must say that flash SEO is a well known problem and a parallel site is not (many times) a viable solution. It costs money, time to make a parallel site, and as a worker in this area, I can say it’s not easy to make costumers realize the importance of this solution. If I were a costumer I’d rather focus on creating link anchors in other sites than waste my money on a parallel site that no one will see with repetitive info, although i’m aware and recognize the importance of SEO (much more than some users of this blog, as I can see by some comments).
They’re aimed to marketing and to costumers whose business relies more in looks than in info.

This bickering leads nowhere, Flash won’t replace HTML nor HTML will replace Flash.

By: chris

chris — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:22:24 +0000

If you are going to do a good job of website optimization for SEO then you need to only use flash where it makes sense. You put usability/crawlability first then worry about flash.

By: onreact

onreact — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 06:57:46 +0000

Hello “seoibiza”. I appreciate your comments and I don’t mind users name dropping as long as you mention your real name like described here:
http://seo2.0.onreact.com/dofollow-blog-commenting-netiquette-vs-a-barbecue-party

By: seoibiza

seoibiza — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 23:09:19 +0000

ive never seen a flash (only) site rank for anything other than what’s in the one pagetitle.

happily theres a flash developer going round ahead of us throwing up new ones faster than we can rank the last one, and not discussing the “i want it at the top of google” issue with the client until they realise that it’s not “at the top of google”

& long may that continue :)

By: Ian

Ian — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 20:29:21 +0000

Yay, my photography site (click my name) is almost entirely Flash! I did what i could to optimize it but in reality it’s not going to get search traffic anyway, more like word of mouth, facebook, stumble and other links.

I think more of a case-by-case analysis would tell you if flash sucks or not for the intended purpose.

By: SEO 2.0 | Top 5 SEO for Flash Tutorials

SEO 2.0 | Top 5 SEO for Flash Tutorials — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 21:08:48 +0000

[...] project and creating another one. I want to concentrate on #3 as there are still some cases where Flash rocks, even when the site is done completely in Adobe [...]

By: onreact

onreact — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 23:26:42 +0000

Alex: This time I was a little ironic, but in fact I will publish a list of Flash SEO tutorials soon.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 15:32:35 +0000

Totally agree with what you have here. And I’m glad you realize Flash works well for SEO. Most people are too ignorant to know you can do it, and do it well with Flash.