Whenever you talk about Flash and search engines you hear about how the search engine crawlers/spiders are helpless of reading the content within the Flash file and thus your site will most likely not rank well within the results of a search. This of course is true and it is widely known.
Because search engine crawlers are designed to index HTML and still have difficulties reading content from within a Flash file, one must take different steps in getting their content on the page. Below is a list of steps that can be taken to get your content on the page.
- Place your content within noscript tags
- Place your content within object tags
- Use keyword descriptive title tags
- Use keyword descriptive meta tags