Almost anyone who has built FLASH webpages can tell you that, historically, it's been all-too-challenging to get a Flash movie page ranking high in the search engines for one's selected keywords. That's because Flash inherently proffers little or no text for the engines to index. However, that was then and this is now – and now, Google is indexing Flash!

Sit up and take heed. You are about to learn how you can (finally) optimize Flash pages to actually rank well in Google.

So far, it seems to be a little known secret...

Recently, while visiting with chat/forum moderator and ThemeMaster creator Michael Marshall, I discovered that Google has quietly begun indexing Flash. I also learned about a free program that allows us to peek behind the curtains to view approximately what Google's spider "sees" as content within Flash pages.

Of course, as discussions so often do, one thing led to another and my "visit" with Michael turned into an interview. I'll share with you the high points as we illustrate the process.