Since I have started this siteblog, a couple of friends of mine have been asking me about the possibilities of optimizing Flash sites. While Flash sites are great to include sound, video, and pictures, flash files are too complex for search engine crawlers to understand, which makes it very difficult to index flash sites, as opposed to HTML pages that contain plain text. A site built entirely with Flash suffers a great disadvantage because it will lack page structure to organize the content, the internal linking, and its unique page titles.

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