Even if many people say that it’s better not to program the whole site in Adobe Flash, I still see lot of new heavy-flash sites. In a previous post, we suggested to limit the use of flash in a website because this is not good for many browsers.

Last month, in the Google official Webmaster Blog, Mark Berghausen wrote an article “Best use of Flash”. He recongnized that “Googlebot (the Google robot) can typically read Flash files and extract the text and links in them, but the structure and context are missing”,. He also says that “textual contents are sometimes stored in Flash as graphics, and since googlebot doesn’t currently have the algorithmic eyes needed to read these graphics, these important keywords can be missed entirely”

So, he suggest the webmasters to use Flash only where is needed. He recommends that the site structure and the important keys should remain outside the flash so googlebot can take a look into them.

He also says that the use of non-flash version is another good option when you need to place a heavy-flash site.

Finally, even google is one of the most important search engines, you must remember that there are many other ones that people uses. Most of these search engines do not have the same technology to seek inside the flash files, so heavy-flash sites are loosing an opportunity to get register in them. So, pay special attention when planning to build your next business online.