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I have used Google maps,places,directions javascript API in my web application. Application loads different places based on user input by making ajax call to the google api. Fortunately Google is able to crawl the ajax lately.

When I was checking the URLs in the Googles webmaster tool 'Fetch as Google' feature, the response is like below

blocked resources

Fetch as Google

Here is the google maps api robots.txt file

Google Robots.txt

Is google maps api blocking Google bot? in that case please suggest me what would be approach should I follow to to get the page content?

Rajakumar Munna
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  • from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17437504/googles-crawler-wont-understand-own-maps-how-to-workaround something like `if (navigator.userAgent !== 'Googlebot') { // load the map and other stuff } else { // show a picture where the map should be or do nothing. }` this may help , also userAgents https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1061943?hl=en – Aishwat Singh Nov 07 '15 at 10:30
  • I'm curious, if Googlebot had been able to access those .js files would it have made any difference? Does it execute the code it finds in them and index/crawl the resulting content? – Doug McLean Nov 13 '15 at 11:39
  • Yes, google bot can follow ajax calls, crawl and index. If you see loading button disabled in the screenshot, it was done through js. I have some other pages , which has some ajax calls, google bot shows screen exactly as user sees. – Rajakumar Munna Nov 14 '15 at 13:04

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We took contact with Google Maps Support and they confermed it was a bug at their side! However, no statements were made about when we could expect a fix.

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