Text in flash Area

can crawler read the link inside flash area?

[Rsssingh]

hi..
can anybody tell me how crawler treats flash area on a webpage?
can crawler read the text inside the flash area?
n what about the links inside the flash area?

[Philosopher]

Google says they can pick up the links inside a swf file and my research shows they can.

However none of the engines are good at reading the content in a flash file. You are better off also creating an html version of the page for search engines AND visitors that don't want to mess with flash.

[Rsssingh]

thanks.....
but how can we create 2 copies of a single page.
crwaler will consider them as duplicate pages and can report them as spam....right?

[Philosopher]

nope. They will be different since the crawler can't read the flash page...only the html version of the page.

On your flash page, just put a link to the HTML version.