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Flash Websites – Great for looks, bad for SEO

There’s an epidemic online of Flash websites!

World famous for being the worst possible way to design your website, Flash websites still appear everyday online. Their main disadvantage is what we specialise in here in our Nottingham office: on-site SEO.

Here’s a list of why you should think twice before paying for a Flash website:

• A Flash website has to be made offline and then uploaded as one whole movie – editing it can be a nightmare unlike a normal website
• Search engines cannot read Flash websites, Google and Yahoo make a good attempt at reading Flash websites now but still they are a struggle to spot any content or links within them
• You cannot link your twitter feed, email form, payment option etc. to Flash without a lot of expert work over a long time – in normal HTML all you have to do is drop in the code and then you’re done
• People cannot use most Flash websites – online surfers are used to blue links and scrolling, a fancy menu system on a Flash website can confuse visitors and is highly likely to get them leaving the site to ind a user friendly site
• Some people don’t even have the Flash player installed – 3.7% of visitors to RealWebSEO.com don’t have Flash installed according to Google Analytics!

Google know full well of all the issues surrounding Flash websites and they never seem to rank highly in the search engines.

When was the last time you came across a Flash website whilst searching online?  We’d love to know…

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