Using Text Replacement with Flash - Dangerous?
Ethic, Legal and Copyright Issues, Flash and Vector Graphic, Graphics, Promoting Website, SEO
If you use Flash replacement techniques could Google misinterpret your pages and apply a penalty? Flash replacement techniques are quite a hot topic of late after reported comments attributed to Google about the implications of certain Flash replacement techniques.
What is Flash Replacement?
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Flash replacement involves substituting plain text output with Flash-based textual content which uses anti-aliased fonts. (Anti-aliasing, for anyone unfamiliar with the phrase, basically means removing jagged edges from text.)
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Indexed in April 2008
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