In the past, it has been difficult to effectively get Flash content indexed and ranked by search engines. Search engines, such as Yahoo and Google, did not spider Flash content as they could not read the compressed file and much of the text inside the SWF appeared as graphics to the search engines.
Macromedia(Adobe) knew that this has prohibited many individuals to use Flash as their source of content. Everyone wants to get properly indexed and ranked with the best of them. That is why they have released the Flash Search Engine SDK.
What is the Flash Search Engine SDK?
The Flash Search Engine SDK is designed for search engine application engineering teams. Users of the SDK can add Flash file decompression, parsing, and indexing features to their server-based search applications. It is available for free download for the Mac and Windows platform.
How Does It Work?
The SDK includes an application named ‘swf2html’. Swf2html extracts text and links from a Flash .SWF file, and returns the data as an HTML document. Swf2html is provided as a compiled application, and as a static library for linked library implementation. More info available with the Flash Search Engine SDK download.
If you’re a Flash developer or user and serious about getting indexed and ranked, I would definitely recommend checking this SDK out.
Here are a few other articles that go farther into depth with SEO within Flash:
Sadly, i don’t think this support flash9 as3 or am i missiing something ?
You are correct. Unfortantely, Adobe hasn’t updated this SDK as I believe it is in the same state which Macromedia left it in. However, Flash 8+ provides a title and description field which will allows for some SEO.