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Jason Grunstra

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More options Jul 6 2007, 5:41 pm

From: Jason Grunstra

Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 21:41:10 -0000

Local: Fri, Jul 6 2007 5:41 pm

Subject: Re: Making Flash websites accessible, is this okay for SEO?

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I was just reading the post "Best uses of Flash" over on the Official
Google Webmaster Central Blog, and it reminded me of this earlier
post. Any responses from Google insiders would certainly be
appreciated.

On Jun 13, 12:09 pm, Jason Grunstra wrote:

> I've been having some interesting debates with other web developers
> and some self-proclaimed SEO gurus about a new Flash accessibility
> programming method that we just blogged about:http://labs.blitzagency.com/?p=171

> The title of the blog post is Search Engine Optimization for Flash
> Websites because well, lets face it, that title attracts more eyeballs
> than "Flash website accessibility".

> I've read the Google webmaster guidelines cover to cover, and I
> believe that what we are doing does not go against Google's
> recommendations, but I 'd love to hear other peoples opinions --
> especially Google's own!

> What we are doing is in the true spirit of good web development --
> separation of content, presentation, and behavior. By doing so, it
> allows is to make our Flash websites much more accessible to those
> without the Flash plugin, and the 10-million plus vision impaired (in
> the US alone). We believe that by making a site accessible, it also
> makes it search engine friendly, and that's not a bad thing. None of
> the techniques or text we are using are designed in such a way as to
> trick or deceive the spiders. The text on the page == the text in the
> Flash movie. We are simply exposing the same separated content to
> everyone.

> So please, check out the blog posthttp://labs.blitzagency.com/?p=171
> and check out the case studyhttp://blitzagency.com/and let me know
> what you think.

> Google, if you're listening -- please feel free to chime in! :)

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