In the conundrum of Google indexation I sometimes feel a bit lost. The other day, when I was editing, I found myself reading about which script gets indexed and which not. The deeper I navigated into Google’s webmaster help platform, the more I found out about what I did not know.
All of this searching, deep linking, and feeling lost did not solve my question whether Google crawls alt tags of div class images. Finally, I gave up and asked one of my former clients, an astute code expert. The answer was yes; Google indexes those as well. (thx Joachim!)
The same thing applied to the indexing of dynamic content in jsp. I found out by Googling (there is irony in this!)
All of this searching, deep linking, and feeling lost did not solve my question whether Google crawls alt tags of div class images. Finally, I gave up and asked one of my former clients, an astute code expert. The answer was yes; Google indexes those as well. (thx Joachim!)
The same thing applied to the indexing of dynamic content in jsp. I found out by Googling (there is irony in this!)
My point is, how can it be that a help platform is user unfriendly? Isn’t it supposed to guide newbs and pros through the very topic he or she is inquiring after? The information overload is overwhelming and I have the idea that navigation is not well thought-out. Since I am used to creating user friendly navigation for websites – to improve usability – I was struck by Google’s lack of it.
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