Does Google index the content of iframes?

[coffeebean]

This must have been addressed previously but I couldn't find it by searching.

In other words, if a page pulls in another page's content (with code like the following), would Google "see" the content returned by [xyz.com...] and attribute it to the outer page that contains the iframe?

<iframe src="http://www.xyz.com/page.html"></IFRAME>

Thanks

[Brett_Tabke]

yes, but the iframe content is indexed as a stand alone page.

[coffeebean]

Thanks Brett. To clarify the second part of my question, can the outer page rank for searches matching keywords in the iframed content?

[Brett_Tabke]

not that I am aware - it can't.

[djgreg]

no, definitely not.
Compare it with a frameset.
For the URL of the frameset, Google will only find what's in the frameset-page and not in the frames.

greg

[Brett_Tabke]

> rank for searches matching keywords in the iframed content?

Not specifically, but indirectly (if the filenames or directorys are keywords)