are Iframes links?

in terms of votes for search engine link popularity?

[dillonstars]

I was wondering if the src in an IFRAME tag is ever considered a link by a search engine?

For example, if one website offers free content for your own website, but then provides this in an iframe that references pages on their own site, by including this iframe in my site, am I linking to him (or at least in search engine terms)?

I have never seen them show up in backlinks, but thought it might be possible that search engines consider this a link.

Rob

[Iguana]

No, IFrames don't count as a link. I have a site that does exactly what you say (encourages people to frame its pages) and no - when my pages are in IFrames they receive no benefit from Google.

[Dayo_UK]

dillonstars

If you mean the code between the iframe tags like this:-

<iframe src="whatever_iframe_content.html">
<a href="whatever.html">Link</a>
</iframe>

Then yes it will count as a link.

If you mean that the links are in the frame that is displayed in the iframe then it will not.

[Iguana]

Hi Dayo_uk

If Google does count iframe src as a link then it is recent - I have been iframed on quite a few pages and have never seen them in backlinks. I will be happy if you are right though!

[dillonstars]

Dayo_UK,

Yes the iframe src=" " exactly what i meant.

I have just checked the googlebot info page and google do indeed follow src="..." as well as href="..." links.

It seems that offering free content in an IFRAME is a good way to get links!

[Iguana]

I'm afraid Dayo_UK is saying that
<a href="whatever.html">Link</a>
will be indexed but
src="whatever_iframe_content.html"
will not be indexed.

see also
[webmasterworld.com ]