Webmaster Forum / Flash / General Flash Topics / July 2008

It used to be that you could create multiple entry points to a single SWF using
a sitemap. For instance, you could define url such as
http://www.example.com/store?product=100 and have that url return HTML content
with the description of the product for SE consumption, and then load the SWF
that then navigates to the particular product. However, after last weeks
announcement, googlebot will happily press every link button in the app and
read all the text for everything that's reachable from this url. If you have
properly designed this entry point, it will be indexed using the text from your
entire site! In fact, every entry point will be indexed with exactly all the
text of your entire site. Does the crawler stop when the 'state' of the page is
changed (i.e. when the value for a bookmark changes to represent a state
change)?

How can we get around this?