I was going to publish a big announcement about enhanced services for The Cosmetic Channel™ but Charlie gave me some pretty big news. We have definitive proof that Google is reading Flash files. This means all of you who are afraid to use Flash for SEO reasons can feel free to design in Flash. Here is all the proof you need.
Many of you are familiar with a site I posted in my blog a few months ago. EastBaySurgicalArts.com is an all-Flash web site with no keyword optimization or meta data. For a demonstration of how Google reads text in Flash, search East Bay Surgical Arts on Google.com. The first listing will be for East Bay Surgical Arts. Read the text in the listing. Then look at the web site. The only place that text resides is in the opening Flash animation. They only way that Google could find that text is by reading the Flash file.
Case closed. I am really tired of all our competitors trying to scare the market by making them think that they cannot have the designs they want for SEO reasons. Next time someone tell you that Google cannot read Flash web sites, tell them about this.
