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• A set of hyperlinks attached to areas of an image. This may be defined within a web page, or as an external file.

  If the image map is defined as an external file, search engines may have problems indexing your other pages, unless you duplicate the links as conventional text hyperlinks.

  If the image map is included within the web page, the search engines should have no problem following the links, although it's good practice to provide text links too, to aid the visually impaired and those accessing the web with graphics switched off or using text only browsers.

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  American Psychological Association (APA)

  Image Map. (n.d.). Search Engine Terms. Retrieved February 8, 2023, from website: http://www.expertglossary.com/definition/image-map.

  Chicago Manual of Style (CMS)

  Image Map. www.cadenza.org. Search Engine Terms. I-Search Digest. http://www.expertglossary.com/definition/image-map (accessed: February 8, 2023).

  Modern Language Association (MLA)

  "Image Map." Search Engine Terms. I-Search Digest. 8 February. 2023 http://www.expertglossary.com/definition/image-map.

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