If you are at all concerned about how search engines might index your Flash site/files then you must get the Macromedia Flash Search Engine SDK. It’s a comand line utility so warm up that DOS prompt but it isn’t too hard to use. Best of all you’ll be able to look at your site/files through the eyes of a search engine spider.

I discovered that my SciFi test site returns a big fat zero to a spider. The reason is that all the data in the site is loaded via XML files. That really sucks. It means that - at least for now - dynmamic data doesn’t count. So not only is it hard as hell to make a Flash website that is spider friendly now we need to find a work-around for dynamic data. That really kind of sucks.