URLs discovering
Can Google and Yahoo follow link in Adobe Flash?
Hm, hm 
We will try to discover:
- What will happen if we add link somewhere in text field?
- What will happen if we make whole text field as a link?
- Can Google and Yahoo follow and index pages that have on(press) ActionScript?
- What about function that have getURL ActionScript?
- What will happen with commented getURL?
Experiment is created with Adobe Flash CS3 and published for Flash Player 9 and ActionScript 2.0
November 15th
On time line we added ActionScript function that calls GetURL function with our test URL.
function functiontest(){
getURL("**our testing URL**", "_blank");
}
I was surprised today when I saw that Google indexed our test page even if we didn’t called our test function.
It looks that this can be good way to add all pages that you want to be followed from Adobe Flash.
October 30th, 2008 at 11:04 am
hello. i have a website http://www.koukoutsi.gr that is made with flash cs3. And yes google has crawl it and has discover the links at the footer.
I was looking at Google to find out which sites are linking back in my main site, and I discover and koukoutsi’s website among the others.
here is and my blogpost http://blog.capsula.gr/2008/10/25/google-finally-index-flash-sites/
November 12th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
this get url method works if you use SWF address and embed the links in to you head section like this:
November 18th, 2008 at 8:31 pm
So what about “off-canvas” content. What I mean is what if you have some content that isn’t visible on screen, but viewing the entire swf file (zooming out), you will see content that is “on the side”.
Am I making any sense? :p
December 4th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
Hi Brow,
on Adobe Max conference few weeks ago at session about SEO and SWF speaker mention that if content is out of the screen Google will not index it.
As fare as I know Google is not making screen shots of Flash.
Only reading ActionScript, elements in library and text on the stage.
I Think that we can add one more sentence in this experiment and see what will happen.