Flash Navigation? What’s up Bruce?
22nd February 2007
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With all the commotion about Dave Pasternack, I thought I’d divert onto a well-known SEO figure; Bruce Clay. Bruce is a dinosaur in the SEO industry, and he has a great site full of good content, and useful SEO Tools. Just one question…What’s up with that Flash navigation? Isn’t that a no-no for SEO bestpractices. Almost every SEO will say Flash Navigation is crazy, and not spiderable. Flash Navigation is contrary to SEO. I understand that parts of a webpage may contain flash. But, the navigation?!? I don’t mean to pick a fight with Bruce. But, I guess it’s just puzzling why an SEO firm would deliberately choose Flash navigation. One more piece of constructive criticism…. The godfather of Usability has a website that practices what he preaches. That’s why I’m surprised at Bruce. I’m certainly not doing an SEO Analysis of Bruce’s website. I’m just wondering why would one of the greats in SEO, have a Flash Navigation? Related posts: |
February 23rd, 2007 at
Use all the flash you want, just throw the spiders a bone with a non-script-based version of the content, functions etc…. that you want spidered. Just so you know, your article inspired Bruce to add some html nav at the bottom of his page. Or did you just not see it before?
February 24th, 2007 at
Yes and no, search engines spider are getting smarter….
March 1st, 2007 at
Search engines are getting smarter and Adobe also give a tools to show how Google see your Flash.
Here are two links that may interest you:
Help search engines indexing your Flash content
http://www.metah.ch/blog/?p=160
March 3rd, 2007 at
Shimon, I’m glad you brought it up-the flash can be a non issue but the long toilet paper page-readers and search engines don’t like it. Good thoughts!
March 16th, 2007 at
I was under the impression that although flash-nav is indeed a no-no, you can correct the adverse effects by having HTML links in the page also (as appears to be the case here). You have to admit though, the flash-nav is pretty trick…