Anecdotal evidence:<p>My band's website is the highest ranked page for the search term "red blue yellow".<p>No meta headers, no keywords, no <strong>, no <h1>... nothing, not even <html> or <body> tags. In fact, the only HTML is a <pre> tag containing ASCII art and a link to our Facebook page. I mean this quite literally, view the source.<p>However, it has been linked to from other sites quite frequently in recent weeks.<p>It would seem that Google doesn't penalize invalid HTML, or even pages that have only the most basic HTML.
So the author makes the supposition that Flash contributes to low ranking (in that the content is not indexed). Google most definitely crawls flash (in some fashion) at this point...<p>I'm curious, does anyone have any idea how that content ranks compared to good old fashioned mark-up? Is it 1:1? Is it harder to rank with flash content? I really have no idea.
[citation needed]<p>Seriously though, despite how anecdotal this page is, it gave me some food for thought. Does Google really care about how far in the future I have registered my domains? I'd love a source on that.