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Hi Andreas - this is an interesting question and one that I've never run into, and I can't find any public references to whether or not it's been tested in the past. The easiest solution is avoid the issue in the first place by embedding the flash video into the PDF and then including a transcript and photos beneath the flash content, inside of the same PDF file. This solves the issue regardless of whether the flash is read by the crawler. If that's not an option, the next best solution would be to test your hunch and hopefully report back here as to whether it was successful or not. I'd be interested to hear the results.

Thanks. We're not trying to trick anything, but we're thinking about the effects it has. Some cases where we might NOT want to give link equity to frame content (internally or externally) and for internal content perhaps set up a robots rule as this might be incomplete pages we don't want indexed. Thanks!