Gaining links from iframes

[mickmel]

I have a bit of content that I'm pushing out via iframes, in order to make it easy for users to embed the content. It's working great, but Google (from what I understand) doesn't touch the iframes. I include links at the bottom of the frame (inside of them), so I still get some direct traffic. However, getting some link love from these would be great.

On some I've added some HTML to go OUTSIDE of the iframe, but webmasters can just strip that off if they want.

Any ideas?

[Receptional Andy]

HTML outside the frame seems a reasonable enough approach to me.

webmasters can just strip that off if they want.

True, although you could always make it part of the terms and conditions of syndicating the content to include your HTML.

And there's always <noframes> of course.

[vincevincevince]

The content of the IFRAME, I presume, is coming from your domain, and not from the webmaster hosting it. This means that there is only one URL with those links on it (the one on your domain in the IFRAME's SRC attribute) and so they only get counted once, and as internal not external links.

The HTML outside is the best option. Might I suggest logging HTTP_REFERER headers so that you can review sites to check for the links? With a nice bit of script you could set up non-compliant sites to not show the content or show something alternative.