All-Flash web sites are notoriously bad when it comes to issues of search engine compatibility. Search engines still cannot read the content of a flash window, nor can a flash page be emailed successfully. Flash may look great, but it does absolutely nothing for promoting your real estate web site.
This is not to say that ’some Flash’ is all bad. When used as an element of you site like an advertisement, or header, it can add to the style of the web site. In truth though, most of what you can accomplish with Flash can now be duplicated with dhtml and javascripts – which can be read by search engines.
This weeks reason to avoid Flash comes from a previously unknown Flash Vulnerability. That’s right, apparently Flash can be hacked to take advantage of your web site.
Robellus (via Slashdot) writes:
“Security researchers have found evidence of a previously unknown Adobe Flash vulnerability being exploited in the wild. The zero-day flaw has been added to the Chinese version of the MPack exploit kit and there are signs that the exploits are being injected into third-party sites to redirect targets to malware-laden servers. From the article: ‘Continued investigation reveals this issue is fairly widespread. Malicious code is being injected into other third-party domains (approximately 20,000 web pages) most likely through SQL-injection attacks. The code then redirects users to sites hosting malicious Flash files exploiting this issue.’”
Filed under: General Realtor Rants, Simple SEO Techniques | Tagged: Flash, Hacking, Technical
