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I have a website that has a lot of html pages (posts), right now they are blocked by me from Google with the meta tag "nofollow/noindex". The pages have unique content, but it is only five lines of text per post. I created for every genre a page where all the posts are showed, this is indexed in Google. I'm thinking of "releasing" the posts in to Google by removing the meta tag, however the following situation occurs:
One post (a.html) has a H1-tag, a paragraph and then an iframe that contains 80% of the page.
My question: will this iframe raise any red flags of spam filters in Google?
The iframe properties are specified in an external CSS file that i will block via robots.txt.
I'm not trying to spam, because it's really usefull for the visitors, but i don't want to be penalized for it.
Thanks in advance.
How are the posts (say a.html) currently accessed by the user? Are they in a separate section of the site, off by themselves? How do you navigate to them?
Is the iframe that contains 80% of the page templated data, navigation, etc, or is different for each page? Does it have anything to do with the content of the post? Why is that 80% of the page in an iframe?
On the pages that aren't blocked by the robots meta tag, how does that content relate to the posts, both in structural and content terms?
How many words would you say is included in those five lines?
Google likes useful content to be available, but in discussions I've seen or heard where Google talks about making "thin" pages perform better, they suggest increasing the amount of content or reducing template size. I've never heard them say "block the template by an iframe" or use javascript to write the content.
I think a lot would come down to how Google perceived your intent... that's an important consideration for Google... so the details I mention, and others you might think of, might make a difference.
The posts are now a html file that has a 100% width and height iframe (the one i now want 80%) and this URL is blocked from Google via the meta-tag noindex/nofollow.
The page that has the 80% iframe (the new one, not the one now) will have h1 tag and 4 to 7 lines of unique content (about 40 to 120 words). There will be a link back to the genre it belongs to and to the main page.
The 80% frame is because there is a website of an affiliate loaded in there, but the text is 100% relevant to the website (i write them myself).
The pages that are not blocked by the meta tag (for example Widgets is the main subject of the site, red.html is about Red Widgets) are about Red, blue of yellow widgets. Widgets (index) -> Red widgets.html. Red widgets had all the post that belong to Red Widgets. One seperate html (a post) that is now blocked is about Affiliate-red-widgets.com and has an unique text with Affiliate-red-widgets.com loaded in the iframe.
Thanks in advance, i hope i made myself clear, sorry if it's to unclear.
