Flash animation on home page - will this harm my rankings?

[stanneon]

Google is now crawling .swf... Have you read this article about SEO and Flash from SEOmoz,

Flash content is fundamentally different from HTML on webpage URLs, and being able to parse links in the Flash code and text snippets does not make Flash search-engine friendly. I think it's great that Google's digging deeper into Flash, but I don't believe web developers should be any less wary than they've been in the past about Flash-based websites or Flash-embedded content.

~ by randfish, writer in SEOmoz

[joeljonathan]

Flash should be used as a prop to your main content and never as the main content (at least for SEO purposes).

[YooHee]

i think making a flash site cannot help a site's ranking at all.... it's better to do a site in html or other webpage software except flash