Comments on: Adobe you just don’t get search!

By: Rory Martin

Rory Martin — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:03:28 +0000

This is a very interesting article.
Ive been doing websites with SEO for years and I know how much work goes into producing a good site that performs well in google. Now the Flash files can be read, hopefully this will reduce the amount of ‘keyword rich’ copy sites have squeezed into them.
I also read that Flash had been readable by search engines for a while now, is this not the case then? Have I been adding meta tags to Flash all this time for no reason?

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By: Brad

Brad — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:36:39 +0000

Great post!

I’ve had to do a lot of investigation and presentaions about this huge Flash blindspot lately. From now on, I’m just a link to this post. Well written.

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By: Louis Venter

Louis Venter — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:45:12 +0000

Hi Tim

Completely agree with all your comments although ill bet flash design agencies pitch themelves as SEOers pretty shortly :p

Its not only the seo elements that they have got wrong (yet again) you would have thought that they would take the time to solve the accessibility issues that flash presents.

Im working on something that will hopefully address both aspects and would love to run it past you as soon as its ready if youre keen?

By: Tim Nash

Tim Nash — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:34:07 +0000

A Search on adobe.com failed to show any results except for a license page, if a new version was ever released then it seems to have gone walkies to. I was pretty careful not to call out Adobe on a single broken link but it appeared the entire product was very carelessly yanked and given that Google still caching some of the pages pretty recently hence the inevitable question.

By: John Dowdell

John Dowdell — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:38:48 +0000

It’s going around in internal email, you know how that is….

Impression I’m getting is that the old material was obsolete and was just pulled when the new materials went live. But your post showed that the existing links to the 2002 SDK need to be updated with current info, not just go blank.

Not resolved yet, and I’m not certain of the final action, but your post here helped trigger some change on this busy day, so thanks.

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By: Tim Nash

Tim Nash — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:30:37 +0000

I presumed that with Adobes’ semi exclusive deal between Yahoo and Google the SDK was removed so as to not cause confusion…

Anyway thanks for stopping by JD and if you do come across the actually reason I would be intrigued as the SDK was/is a useful tool for debugging.

By: John Dowdell

John Dowdell — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:24:41 +0000

Hi Tim, good catch on the existing SWF SEO SDK links. I’ve got an enquiry in to other staffers about what changed, and will report back here when I get news.

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