Spiders can’t “digest” flash objects and JavaScript that well, links and text in flash are not followed or indexed.
The use of flash objects in the page layout sometimes could be necessary, but avoid having all your pages designed entirely in flash.
Acceptable uses of flash:
- Product demos and presentations
- Online videos
Dangerous use of flash:
- Entire site in flash
- Navigation menus
Spiders can’t read images, so you should replace images by text whenever it is possible. It is understood that sometimes design requires graphic headers and images, but if the image only contain text, you should consider using text instead.
Few things to consider when creating your images:
- All your images should have alt attribute
<img src="some-image-file.jpg" alt="" height="50"" width="50" />
- All visible meaningful images should have alt attribute text
<img src="some-image-file.jpg" alt="some great alt text here" height="50"" width="50" />
- Alt text should be representive to what the image is about
- Use keywords in your alt text but avoid stuffing
- Try not to exceed 5-7 words in your alt text
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