In the past I have never worked with flash sites, not because I couldn’t (I’m sure my technical knowledge would be adequate), but rather because I never had the opportunity to optimise a flash site. I have had a vague idea of what I would do if the opportunity ever came up, but never really researched much further in to it.
Lately I started to research and didn’t get that much closer to solving the flash problem, but I did learn something very important; SEO ‘experts’ know nothing about optimising flash but like to pretend that they do. Whilst they often write about it, I think the vast majority are in the same boat as me; some basic knowledge but no practical experience of optimising flash. To be honest, I have never seen a SEO topic so widely written about by so many misinformed people.
I can admit I don’t know all that much about making a flash website search engine friendly. I know what I shouldn’t do, and I know some possibilities of what I could do – but there is still no way you would see me write a tutorial about it. 99% of articles and blog posts are people writing “If you do x and then you do y, the flash site will be search friendly… I have never tried it, but it will work.”In all my research I did not see one example of any of the practices that these SEO consultants wrote about.
Now to the challenge: I want to see a completely search friendly purely flash site. It doesn’t have to be optimised by you, but it needs to be actually search friendly, it needs to be aesthetically pleasing and it needs to be optimised in light of Google’s most recent flash indexing announcements. Can somebody find me this site?