# SEO and Flash: Safe Using SWF Object?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/seo-and-flash-safe-using-swf-object/198916>\
**Category:** web dev\
**Created:** [August 29, 2006, 4:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/seo-and-flash-safe-using-swf-object/198916 "2006-08-29T16:44:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![McGuffin](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/mcguffin/32/408_2.png) [@McGuffin](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/McGuffin)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2006, 4:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/seo-and-flash-safe-using-swf-object/198916/1 "2006-08-29T16:44:50Z")

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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](http://www.example.com) or there is deeplinking support, so [www.example.com/#hash/](http://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.

```auto

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 🙂