SEO and Flash: Safe Using SWF Object?

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Hey,

I’ll be working on a site shortly. I was wondering what everyone thought of the idea of using SWF Object to help with the search engine optimization. The way it will work is the user can browse to www.example.com or there is deeplinking support, so www.example.com/#hash/ where hash would be About, Practice, Contact, etc.

My question is: do search engines hate this? Will it get delisted? And another thing, am I safe reading the hash from Javascript and displaying different content for each page? ie.


if (window.location.hash = "about") {
    // display about content
} else if (window.location.hash = "contact") {
    // display contact content
}

Would that be safe? The last thing I want is for Google or another search engine to think something funky is going on and delist the site.

Thanks a lot :slight_smile: