by Andrew Redfern @ 1st July 2008 4:27 pm

Big news in the SEO world. There has been reports that this was in the pipeline and it will a huge help to webmasters as it means their graphical Flash content will now be indexed and stored by the search engines.

According to a report from Internet news “Adobe Systems has teamed up with Google and Yahoo to make content mixed with its Flash file format easier to index. The software maker predicts a big impact on how and what pages are sorted in the rankings of those search engines. Just give it some time.”

This will mean that there is no need to change the exisiting sites because the updated search engine spiders will be able to read the flash during the normal crawling process.
Justin Everett-Church, Flash senior product manager at Adobe. “The perfect page for you may have been out there, but it was all Flash content, so it had low search ranking. This will mean it will have a high ranking.”

There are more details available here at the official Google webmaster blog.

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