Flash on your website bad for seo?

If you want your website to have a greater potential of achieving a good natural search engine ranking, SEO experts always advised not to use flash. A website designed 100% in flash could not be read by the search engines. So it was always a balancing act between creating a really nice looking website with animations on, and one that ranks well with search engines such as google.

It has long been rumoured that google is now reading flash files, but no solid conformation. However an article by CNET confirms that goole will now read flash text. For web developers, this will be much less of a headache, you can now use flash much more freely. However, the question arises, what does google prefer? It may now read flash content, but will google favour sites coded in CSS etc?

However in the coming months we expect more information regarding SEO standards for flash to arise. One thing about google is that they will never give clear guidelines, they will keep you guessing regarding what makes them happy!

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