Do search engine bots read and index text from TTF fonts?! Or they read some fallback fonts?
or is TTF fonts just an image?
lucy24
1:27 am on Jul 23, 2014 (gmt 0)
Do you mean .ttf fonts embedded in web pages?
YES, search engines crawl them. Well, at least google does. In fact, they're one of a few filetypes (.js is another) that are usually requested with a specific named page as referer, rather than the standard referer-less search engine request. If you Preview a page that uses embedded fonts, those fonts will be used in the preview.
(For those who are just joining us: I know this because I moved sites about 7 months ago and have since then paid extra close attention to search-engine behavior. Primarily that means redirects-- but I've looked at other things too. I only use embedded fonts for headers, so they really stand out in previews.)
How, or even whether, a font can be indexed is a whole nother matter. If I let them, search engines would crawl .midi files even though there's absolutely nothing they can do with them.
zambala
1:50 am on Jul 23, 2014 (gmt 0)
Yes, thanks, I didn't find right word for a text in web pages from TTF fonts, it's not about font files themselves:)
