Does mozbot also check whether its a flash or frames website?

[5MMedia]

Dear Seomoz expert,

I have signed up for a free trial account for SEOmoz Pro. Im testing available SEO software to see which one is gonna make me work more efficient for my clients.

Right now im doing technical analysis by hand which costs alot of time but gives me the ability to deliver high quality advices.

One of the things i always thorougly check is the way a website is structured (code). I see a lot of relevant criteria for crawl analysis but dont see flash or frames.

This is kind of important because on a full flash website there is no content for the Google spider to crawl. Frames can also cause issues looking at internal linking structure and all.

How is this integrated in SEOmoz Pro?

Greets,

S.

[Cyrus-Shepard]

Hi Sander,

Really good question. And you are absolutely right about about flash and frames causing potential problems.

SEOmoz crawlers do not check for flash or frames, so there is no way of knowing if it encounters these in your crawl report. This would be a nice feature, but off the top of my head I don't know of any off-the-shelf commercial SEO tools that do this, although I'm sure a simple crawler would be easy for a motivated developer to build.

My ideal crawler would not only report these stats, but also the number of unique words in the text body.

We do have a PRO feature request you can take advantage of.

Hopefully you can still find value with the PRO platform. Regardless, I'll pass your comments along to the team. Thanks and best of luck!

[5MMedia]

Hi Cyrus!

Thanks for the response! There are some tools that say if it's a flash or frames site.. But after going through all the crawl diagnostics in SEOmoz PRO i think the information it offers automatically shows that there are issues due to frames or flash.

I realise that it's not about whether a site has frames or flash but the issues that are caused by the use of these techniques. And i think that SEOmoz PRO failry covers these issues.

Also, it's not a bad thing using the crawler in your head to check upon things once in while

SEOmoz PRO is in my oppinion the only tool  that has a structured and efficient way of presenting data. Im just gonna use it some more and see if it really spares me hours working on projects.

Thanks!