In just a few short weeks the site has generated more then 35 thousand visitors with out spending a penny on advertising. 35 thousand hits are hard to dispute. Try telling Buffalo Wild Wings that Flash is bad for their ROI. Don’t get me wrong I’m a blog guy my self. I don’t think one is better then the other. There is a right and wrong tool for every job. But I’ll let you and your visitor be judge. Check it out.

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Remedy? Remove those frames!

FYI, I’ve checked – you site doesn’t use frames, so you are safe!

Nice article. How about frames? Our website has lot of frames which is not advisable for good ranking. Is there any remedy without much modifications? Thanks in advance.

Yes. As far as what I know, Google does index the words inside flash, but without the proper markup (e.g. H1, H2 etc), it is difficult to optimize the animation for search engines.

I do believe though, that flash will one day allow that!

Great comment! I’d totally agree with you – the trouble is not with the technology, but with the way people use it.

Flash, integrated well with HTML is awesome. The unfortunate thing however, is many web designers simply smack one huge flash file to handle everything.

If you use this, no more seo problems.

There are a plenty of aweful full Flash tuning websites, that’s for sure. But more user friendly interfaces, increased ergonomics are the future of the web and, whether you appreciate it or not, the main technology aiming at doing this is Flash (with all its friends Flex, AIR, etc). Of course Silverlight or even AJAX are showing good stuff too, but they come up with the same kind of seo issues.

To my point, spitting on websites using Flash in a wrong way is right, but spitting on Flash itself is a mistake.

I was under the impression that Google could now index search content quite effectively? Obviously the flash detect script should be smart enough to detect robots and give them the raw content if needed.