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Avoiding the "sorry we have no imagery here" G-maps error
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Hi there, we recently did a redesign on a big site and added Gmaps locations to almost every page since we are related to Real State, Listings, Details, search results all have a map embedded.
While looking at GWT I found that the top keywords on our site (which is in spanish) are the following.
- have
- here
- imagery
- sorry
After a quick search I found out this is a Gmaps bug, when Google Bot accesses the Pages it throws an error out with this text repeated several times. If you do a search for "sorry we have no imagery here" you will see lots of sites with this issue.
My question is, Is this affecting the overall SEO since Bots are actually crawling and indexing this hence its being reported by GWT, Should I cloak this to robots? Has anyone noticed this or has been able to fix it?
Thanks in advance!
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Hmmm.. seems to be a very common issue.
How about creating script that fires the map load on a div that loads a static map image instead of the iframe by default? Then using a simple function switch that image to the iframe of the map. That should do it for the "sorry we have no imagery here" problem.
If it doesn't, you could try using some kind of internal catching to get the static image and save it in your server to serve that as the "1st" image, you can then load the iframe.
Hope that makes sense
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