14 DAY TRIAL // More and more sites are flash-based because it provides a good experience for the user while he is navigating on the webpage. If you have a website built in flash and you want it to appear on Google's index, then there is a problem. Google crawls your site analyzing text and images but, as you know, flash content is different from these elements. So, the company decided to explain the way Google robot crawls flash-based sites.
"Google indexes pages that use Macromedia Flash. However, our crawlers may experience problems indexing Flash pages. If you're concerned that Flash content on your pages may be inhibiting Google's ability to crawl your site, you may want to consider using a text browser such as Lynx to examine your site. If features such as Flash keep you from seeing all of your site in a text browser, then search engine spiders may have trouble crawling your site," Google said.
"You may want to consider creating HTML copies of these Flash pages for our crawler. If you create HTML copies, please be sure to include a robots.txt file that disallows the Flash pages in order to ensure that our crawler doesn't recognize these pages as duplicate content.
Finally, you might consider creating and submitting a detailed Sitemap of your pages using Google Sitemaps. Google Sitemaps is an easy way for you to submit all your URLs to the Google index and get detailed reports about the visibility of your pages on Google. With Google Sitemaps, you can automatically keep us informed of all of your current pages and of any updates you make to those pages," Google added.