Links from flash site completely useless?
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From a link building perspective, is a link from a site that's completely flash any good?
Can google crawl flash sites at all, or it a waste of time trying to get a link from a flash site?
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Never heard of it. However the best method to find out if it works is to actually implement it and try it. Once you have implemented it you can view your site in a SEO browser like lynx, basically it kind of gives you an idea what the crawler sees when they crawl your site or page... Now keep in mind these SEO browsers are not as advanced as Google's crawlers but it can give you a general idea...
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The site in question is this http://www.stylemyroom.ie/
looking at the page source I saw this
Never heard of this before, does it actaully work?
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Hello,
If the link itself is embedded inside a swf or flv file than it is very unlikely that any crawler will be able to see and follow that link. However even though its a flash site it still contains HTML code that calls the flash files, and if they put a link within that HTML code that calls all other flash files than that link will get crawled.
Here is a link to Google's Webmasters Blog that talks about crawling flash content:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/06/improved-flash-indexing.html
Hope this helps.
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