MenTaLguY wrote:
On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 08:32:51 +0300, "Nicu Buculei (OCAL)" <nicu@...143...> wrote:
One of the things I wonder about is how Google and maybe the other search engines are able to index it: is Google able toindex the text in a SVG website? Will it follow the links inside the SVG? Is any penalty for PageRank because of using SVG?
My understanding is that Google does not currently index SVG content, though there's no technical reason why they couldn't; it'll probably require people writing SVG websites to change their mind.
This is also what I suspect looking at their Webmasters Tools reports for my personal clipart site.
However, this is a vicious circle: people don't write SVG websites because those are not indexed by Google and Google does not index them because they are so few. Which is a shame, as Inkscape with only a few added features could be an awesome website authoring tool (for SVG websites) and the upcoming Gecko 1.9 (Firefox 3.0) will allow users to fully enjoy those sites.