Questions about the "Accessibility - Crawling and Indexing:" video
from the latest Official Google Webmaster Central Blog post.
video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEbS0a2JcAo&eurl=http://googlewebmaste...
Thanks for all of the excellent work being done to better index Flash,
I like millions of others are simply trying to better understand this
new environment.
There are a number of cases where text content in Flash is indexed
properly in SERPs without progressive enhancement (PE) and as a Flash
file, since support for SWFObject was introduced. As you know, when
Flash files are indexed in SERPs, progressive enhancement doesn't take
place and no graceful degradation occurs because users without Flash
access the Flash file directly. I've been researching this issue and
have documentation here:
http://www.beussery.com/blog/index.php/2008/10/google-flash-seo/
Questions about PE from the video:
Can anyone confirm that Googlebot "sees" text content provided via PE
since support for simple JavaScript like SWFObject was introduced? If
so, what causes Flash files to be indexed in many cases and not the
parent URL where content provided via PE resides? Is there anything
webmasters can do to request which version (Flash or (X)HTML) is
indexed in SERPs, for example like www or non-www in webmaster
tools?
Thanks for your time an help in understanding these issues
-Brian
(By the way, the "Webmaster Help Discussion Groups" link in the post
doesn't seem to be working.)