{"id":15,"date":"2011-08-30T13:04:20","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T20:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/netqwik.com\/loudoun-web-design\/?p=142"},"modified":"2017-02-10T04:51:29","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T04:51:29","slug":"are-you-sure-you-need-a-flash-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.netqwik.com\/loudoun-web-design\/are-you-sure-you-need-a-flash-website\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you sure you need a Flash Website?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many website owners want to have Flash websites as they look impressive. Although Google can index Flash content to some extend, it is very unlikely that a Flash page will get high rankings on Google. Flash content cannot be indexed by search engines. If your website is a pure Flash site, then you can be sure that search engines won&#8217;t be able to see 99% of your website content.<\/p>\n<p>Google has several official statements regarding Flash content:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Search engines are text based. This means that in order to be crawled and indexed, your content needs to be in text format. <div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 hundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top: 0px;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last fusion-column-no-min-height\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\">[&#8230;] Any content you embed in these files should also be available in text format or it won&#8217;t be accessible to search engines. [&#8230;]\nWe recommend that you use rich-media technologies like Flash primarily for decorative purposes, and instead use HTML for content and navigation.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Make sure that your site has a reasonable, seamless experience for visitors without Flash.<br \/>\nThis may involve creating HTML-only equivalents for your Flash-based content that will automatically be shown to visitors who can&#8217;t view Flash.&#8221;<br \/>\nour pages. If this is &#8216;just&#8217; for comments, then that might be worth considering.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What does this mean to your website?<\/p>\n<p>If you want to get a reasonable amount of visitors through search engines, don&#8217;t use Flash and other multimedia elements for the main contents of your web pages:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Only use Flash for decorative purposes.<\/li>\n<li>The navigation of your website should use regular HTML a href links.<\/li>\n<li>Do not use fancy JavaScript or Flash navigation menus. Most search engines cannot parse them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Web design portfolio\" href=\"https:\/\/www.netqwik.com\/web-design-loudoun-virginia-va.php\">Click here to view our web design portfolio<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.loudounwebdesigns.net\/loudoun-web-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/custom-web-design.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13587\" src=\"http:\/\/www.loudounwebdesigns.net\/loudoun-web-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/custom-web-design-183x300.jpg\" alt=\"Custom Web Design\" width=\"183\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.netqwik.com\/loudoun-web-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/custom-web-design-183x300.jpg 183w, https:\/\/www.netqwik.com\/loudoun-web-design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/custom-web-design.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 183px) 100vw, 183px\" \/><\/a><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">.fusion-fullwidth.fusion-builder-row-1 { overflow:visible; }<\/style><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many website owners want to have Flash websites as they look impressive. Although Google can index Flash content to some extend, it is very unlikely that a Flash page will get high rankings on Google. 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