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18 December 2006 17:30
If you want your map to be found by search engines there needs to be
text for it to index the page. Beautiful maps are just images and are
totally ignored.
The easy but inelegant solution is to add the text that is on the map
below the map. You could use the Save As - Outline plain text to get
this.
The time consuming but elegant solution for hyperlinked topics only, is
to add link text by:
Right click the topic hyperlink > Edit the hyperlink > Options > Link text
Enter either the topic text or add something more enlightening about
what will happen if the link is clicked. This text becomes alt text in the
export and is indexed by Google etc. It is permanently saved with the
map, so you only have to do it once.
When you mouseover the clickable image map in Internet Explorer (but
not Firefox) these texts appear. You will see that on some of the links
on this map of the Ecademy site.
The third and more tedious way is to open exported the HTML file with
an editor and add the meta tags: description and keywords. Filling them
with content that repeats the text on the map. Of course you will
have to do this after each export! |
