Google's crawler won't understand own maps. How to workaround?

Question

I found strange words, (have, here, imagery, sorry) that were supposed not to be on my site, being taken as keywords by the crawler from Google

Answer 1

Unfortunately i saw this a lot too...

My assumption is that googlebot won't fully evaluate all js code on a page, but will use heuristics as well. Thus getting no imagery (which gets indexed). Based on this assumption I did the following:

1. Create a div with a "random" ID (for the map) and style="display: none;"

2. Create a noscript tag with an img tag in it with the SAME "random" ID (i used a static map image as fallback here, which is also good as a no-js fallback)

3. Create a (custom) javascript function where the unique ID must be passed to initialize your map AND toggle the display style to block on the map-element.

So far, none of the maps "sorry we have no imagery" gets indexed.

Hope it helps