Today at the SES conference I had lunch with two lovely chaps from Google who gave me some of the best news I have gotten in weeks. The system we have been working on at the office for optimizing Flash pages for SEO is not only “not bad”, but instead I got the following:
“It is very much in our interest to get your content into our system. We certainly don’t want to block your content for reasons like that … Our goal isn’t to penalize you for that type of behavior. We won’t do that to you.”
Sounds like we aren’t getting banned after-all.
For quite a while I’ve been a little bit concerned that our methods are deep enough into the edge cases of normal behavior that warning bells and sirens are firing off when spiders hit our new content. More and more these days it seems like you have to think (and occasionally act) like a Black Hat to get your content out there. Don’t get me wrong, I have no problem working in that foggy grey area, but I’d hate to have months of client work go down the drain because we tripped too many red (black) flags.
Looks like we’re more than in the clear. Graceful enhancement of page content ahoy!
Since I can’t talk directly about -our- specific method, take a look at Refunk’s white paper on the subject to get a pretty good understanding of what areas are green lit by the big boys.
