Flash Animation or Normal Image??
November 17th, 2007 by PankajLike most people, I also like those eye caching flash animations. But unfortunately search engines are not smart enough to read those .swf files.
Recently I found an article at icontact community about SEM Strategies and fond this:
….. you may see many of them remove that cool-looking piece of media. Not because they’re finally getting over their brand arrogance, but because many search engines won’t read past the .swf extension in the source code.
So, using a plain image (gif/jpeg/png) with keyword in name and in alt tag is far better then using swf. This will also help to drive traffic from search engines for image search.
Normally, swf files file size are much bigger then normal images, which takes more space and eat lots of bandwidth. So, plain image can also save your bandwidth.