iFrames

iFrames content blocked from spiders?

[Marlinized]

is the content inside an iframe indexed by spiders?

[MadeWillis]

I believe so. You would need to use robots.txt if you do not want it indexed.

[Beagle]

Remember that the content inside an iframe is actually on a different page than the frame itself. The way I understand it (and the way I interpret the code on a few pages I just checked with "view:source") is that all the spider will see is the code you use to bring that content into the frame. The content itself isn't visible on the iframe page. It would be visible, though, on the page that actually holds the content - unless that page is blocked in some way.

This is also an accessibility issue. If a spider can't read something, usually a screen reader can't, either. So someone using a screen reader - or even someone browsing with images disabled - won't see the iframe content. If it's important, you may want to have it in an alternate format for them.

I'm not an expert on this, but I think that's basically how it works.

[old_expat]

I think Beagle is correct. On one of my sites where I didn't want the iframe content spidered, I put the iframe pages in a unique folder and excluded the folder in robots.txt. I think it worked.:?

[daveVk]

If the iframe is indexed and visited, just the iframe will be seem. If it does not make sense on a standalone basis, and link back to site, it may do you more harm than good.

[bilalseo]

no I had a blog and the contents were driven inside the iframes, no content was indexed by the Google... but now I'm running a superb SEO friendly blog without using iFrames, and my all posts are now indexed and kept a good SE ranking. this shows that iFrames never called SE friendly.

thanks,

bilal