Flash buttons and SEO: advantage over text links to external sites?

Here’s a question for those of you who also know a bit about flash and SEO :

One of my main sites takes a hit in google rankings because the homepage has a bunch of outbound links to other sites (google prefers sites that have a lot of inbound links, and/or content-linked internal pages, and doesn’t like sites that simply point to a lot of different external sites, like mine does).

I’m thinking, instead of using text links on the site only that point to other sites, if INSTEAD I were to use say flash buttons that look like text (but still linked offsite), google/se wouldn’t “know” that the site has a lot of outbound-pointing links, and may not penalize the site as it currently does.

Is that correct thinking? I was hoping that, instead of as now, where google “sees” my homepage with a bunch of outbound links (and ranks it lower), instead it “misses” seeing or even knowing about all the outbound links, since I’m using flash buttons with external URL links. (or, can google somehow ‘tell’ the .swfs have external links, and penalize me anyways).

Anyone know?

thanks… (and fwiw I’m not worried about missing out on having ipad users not seeing the links, most of my customers are pc/desktop based that I want to reach)

Let you know in general the concept of sharing links to other sites to rank you up is going to be over soon .base on the coming logarithm of Google in the search engine this concept will not have any more effect on ranking with sharing link or even seo search (shocking i know, big hit for all those HTML WP stuff), this will apply to any platform .I guess Google come to the understanding this method of sharing links is been massively exploit ,and it’s not reflecting the true nature of popular site base on Web crawler

thanks, good point. for now, sites like mine that have on their homepage a lot of links to external sites, get ranked lower in google… so i was wondering if using flash links would reduce the google penalty since .swfs are not seen as external links by google?

My current site has links via flash and google picks these up no problem. So may not make a lot of difference.

a bit old but still apply today .