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Originally Posted by Gino
Well I think the answer for me is pretty easy...flash equals no SEO traffic. Search engines to my knowledge do not pick up text in flash, but I could be wrong. Plus flash is still too slow loading for my taste even the optimized stuff still takes a while. Plus to pull off a nice flash site you have to be really really good, because 90 percent of the time flash just looks cheesy unless you get into some more advanced stuff and action scripting.
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Gino would be correct. Flash does pretty much means no SEO traffic. Unless it is a very popular celeb, band, company etc...It's mostly just eye candy. There are some Flash website that I love and others that I dispise. In my professional experience companies and clients want to draw as much attention and traffic to their website as possible obviously, which makes sense. Who wouldn't want that? That's why I think it's better to use Flash elements in a HTML based website. Then you get the best of both worlds.
Flash does look amazing when done right, but for a long term website you want to draw attention to...???...bad idea. But when it comes to many SEO techinques it's impossible being that text in a SWF Flash file is basicly a movie clip...not selectable text. Then there's the loading time issues, some people believe it or not are still on dial up so you might as well forget it with them.
Just my opinion.