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For our site, we quite heavily make use of iFrames. Much to our surprise Google and most other search engines, do NOT index these pages! We could see that Googlebot has actually visited our site, but there is no listing whatsoever, even if we search for a phrase unique to our site.
There is just one phrase on our site that is actually displayed outside of the iFrame. Google hasn’t index that phrase eather. Only Lycos has indexed it, but (again) it doesn’t index the pages within the iFrame.
Please help, if you know of a way for the content to be indexed. I hope there is a solution that does not involve redesigning the site.
Just to be complete, here is the construction we use with the iFrame:
<iframe src="content.html" name="home" width="335" height="157" frameborder="0"></iframe>
We currently do NOT use the “target” option in the “a href” tag to fill the frame. Each page is completely independent: each page creates an iframe and loads its own content into it using the above construction.
Thanks for the help!
JustMe
Firstly, Google does crawl IFrames, however, it is better and more reliable if you don't use them. I would suggest using w3c to check that you page validates as that tag doesn't seem right.
My golden advice though would be, don't use iframes. Bite the bullet and change your site now rather than later.
Chris
Can you add a link on the pages with iframes to reload iframe or something to give google a good ole link to follow. I don't use iframes and have heard that it does and doesn't follow iframes. You may also want to place an absolute link with http in it to tip of gbot that it is a link.
Place your link between the iframe tags. Browsers that cannot display iframes will display the link. Spiders will crawl it as well.
- papabaer
