Putting repeated descriptive text inside iframe?

[epmaniac]

I'd often wondered about that myself. Many of our items from the same manufactuer have same basic description I had thought about using iframes to display the base description.
I'd thought we might be getting dinged for dupe content even though that information is very important to the customer before they purchase.

Would a bot see this text?

[tedster]

Up to now, content in an iframe is not indexed as "part of the page" because it is on a different URL. This means iframed content is indexed as part of its own URL, and not the parent page.

[deadsea]

Googlebot would non-crawlable iframes as "whitespace" in the page when it rendered it. I've seen some threads here recently speculating that showing excessive whitespace to googlebot (especially above the fold) might trigger algorithms that disfavor your site.

Getting rid of duplicate content is great, but there are probably risks as well.

[Robert Charlton]

I've seen some very highly regarded and SEO-savvy sites use graphics in place of some standard descriptions, and then add their own additional content as text. I should note, though, that I haven't noticed that for a while.