: Can text content in an HTML5 element be indexed by search engines? I was wondering if content in an HTML5 canvas element has any positive/negative effects on SEO, or if it is indexed at

@Nickens628

Canvas renders text as images, surely if you have an image clearly displaying text, theoretically Google can recognize the image and index it as let's say header but it is very unlikely at this point.
I personally would never gamble with important on-page SEO elements such as headers and text. Since bots see canvas elements as images then we could just convert site layouts to jpegs and throw it online hoping all the text would get indexed properly and the links we could handle with image maps. But that's crazy talk, right? That's why flash websites have tough time indexing their content without special bot-friendly scripting.

Until Google gives exact guidelines how to handle canvas in the SEO I would just use @font -face for nice looking headers.

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@BetL925

If the text is in the HTML, between the <canvas></canvas> tags, then yes. Although I'm unsure of what context the search engine would see that text in.

If the text is drawn to the canvas then no.

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@Berumen354

Probably not, try this tool robot.dabase.com/ to see what a robot typically sees on your site.

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