Check your website because Google is going to stop ranking and indexing flash content

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Check your website because Google is going to stop ranking and indexing flash content

Google search engine is the most popular search engine that people use in their everyday life, people reach your website using this search engine, and that is why it is very important to make sure that you know what changes Google is bringing and adapt your website accordingly with it. The latest thing that website owners need to know is that Google has announced that they will stop indexing flash websites. This can affect many websites as many websites use flash contents or content with flash SWF files. No matter whether your website uses this flash content fully or just in some parts, you need to change it, if you don’t want to affect your ranking.

What is flash?

Flash was introduced by adobe in 1996; it works to produce richer content on the web. It was quite popular in its early times, but as time passed it started to get diminished, and the number of a browser supporting it starts to reduce. Google starts indexing such files in 2008, but it never worked out that well. Google said that it will ignore the flash content from later this year. Google search will stop indexing standalone SWF files. So from this, we can interpret that Google will not be indexing and ranking content in flash websites.

What you should do?

Google also said that most website won’t be much affected by this change. They also added, “Flash is disabled by default in Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Firefox 69.” If in any case you are getting affected and if your website depends on Google search traffic than you can change and adopt HTML5 and other forms of JavaScript. Whether it’s just a part or a full website design, change it when you have time, and look for better options so that you don’t have to face the consequences.

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Check your website because Google is going to stop ranking and indexing flash content

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