Does this page crawl well?
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I just put up a page that uses an image map to illustrate a national currency note.
http://www.antiquebanknotes.com/NationalCurrency/National-Bank-Note-Information.aspx
My goal with this page is get results for National Bank Note. But I know image maps are wierd creatures and not good for linking. My question is, will Google index my tooltips and find this page useful and therefore worthy?
I think the content is useful for my users but I just don't know if the implementation will work well. This screen will eventually have 5 or 6 notes on it and I don't want to do it
the concensus is negative...
Thanks for any advice.
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but of course it will index the page. and it has!
as far as... will it find the page useful or therefore worthy is not up to Google but your visitors. To make the page rank you need to include links from other pages that will eventually land your visitors to this page. including call to action buttons etc. I would also suggest to add more content to give the page some density as well.
hope this helped
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Regarding #2, I understand your target keyword is the singular version. You hit it in the URL, page title and H1 tag. You do not need to use the singular version every time. You should use the appropriate tense in content. If you wish to use the singular version, find a grammatically correct way of doing such.
Regarding item #4, the note is not working as an image map for me. I am using FF8 as a browser. The note is simply a static image.
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Hi Ryan,
First, thank you so much for the interesting feedback... I will learn plenty with this thread I am sure.
#1 Interesting tool validating the html... I am kind of surprised by the errors since the html is very basic. I wonder if it's finding issues with my Masterpage. I will dig in and see if I can clean those up. I have cleaned up my issue with the Div in the Head... which was hurting every page on the site... very nice.
The last 20 errors seem to be a complaint with microsofts image map. Or at least, I need to set noHref somewhere on the image map but I dont' see the property. I will work on that.
#2 I purposely used the singular because that is the exact keyword I want to hit. I figured taking the slight hit for grammar was better to get the exact keyword. I'd be curious to hear your thoughts on that trade off or if there really is a tradeoff there.
#3 Yeah, I will be adding some content but not much... the star of this page will be the notes and the breakdown of their anatomy
#4 The note is an image map and I have defined 12 clickable areas on the image where a tooltip will show on click or hover. I thought describing the click to a site user was a little more intuitive than having them hover over. My users will tend to be older.
#5 Fixed.
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The web page could be optimized in numerous areas to improve it's crawlability and performance.
1. The page does not use valid HTML. There are 25 coding errors. Most if not all should be corrected. http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.antiquebanknotes.com%2FNationalCurrency%2FNational-Bank-Note-Information.aspx&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0
2. For best SEO performance, you should improve the page's grammar usage. For example "Below are the major forms of National Bank Note." should end in "notes" (plural).
3. There is almost no textual content on the page. While it is not required, you may wish to add additional content.
4. The page says "Click on any element that you want to know about and read the description." There is no clickable part of the image.
5. The page's meta description is the same as the title.
The page is crawlable but there are many steps which can be taken to improve it's performance in search results.
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