What web design tools don work with indexing search engines (and why)?
Macromedia Flash & Shockwave. These are very popular design tools used today to produce “high end”, “bells and whistles”, “graphically pleasing” web sites. Many web developers don’t understand that indexing search engines don’t read Flash & Shockwave. Indexing search engines use “crawlers” or “robots” to record your web site in their databases. These crawlers read the code in your web site. Flash and Shockwave are used to produce spectacular graphics. However, these graphics require significant load time. Load time is a key component for the algorithms of these indexing search engines. The search engines have changed their algorithms to “ignore” websites that use Flash and Shockwave. These web sites won’t get recorded into the databases of these indexing search engines.
