: Can Googlebot crawl and index data shown on a map (powered by Google)? I have a web service that includes mainly data on map. Can Google fetch these data (asynchronously loaded )? The solution

@Michele947

Yes Google can crawl your images and maps which you have on your website. You can configure these bits of data also with a data highlighter so it gives Google a better knowledge of what it actually is.

If I am right you can also submit maps to Google webmasters now?

Google know alot more about your images and data shown on your map than you think, if you have an image based site maybe you want to get an image xml sitemap?

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@BetL925

Googlebot is getting better and better at crawling and indexing data that is loaded via JavaScript and AJAX. In most cases however, Googlebot can't access that data and rank your site for the keywords contained in it.

Google's recommended solution for the problem is crawlable AJAX. You include a meta tag in your page example.com/map.html:
<meta name="fragment" content="!">


Then Googlebot fetches example.com/map.html?_escaped_fragment_= and expects you to give it an HTML snapshot containing the data that would be shown to users on the map.

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