Well, this is good news for many SEO people who try to get good search engine listings for their clients despite all of the flash put into their websites.

Google will be crawling the TEXT in flash files. Not text embedded in the images. Not the images. Not the animations. The TEXT.

So word needs to go out to all of you flash designers out there. Use more keyword-rich text in the flash you create for clients.

Unfortunately most web designers are so interested in design they ignore SEO altogether. I’m not sure this will mean flash designers will now try to optimize the flash so it contains keyword-rich text. Likely an SEO person will have to get them to do it after-the-fact as usual. But we can hope.