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Are iframes bad for Search Engine Optimization?

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it's not that Iframes are "bad" for SEO, it's just that they are ineffective. I believe they have no effect to either the positive or the negative for the search engines, because like Java or flash, the search engine spiders cannot see or read the text that is contained in an I Frame to make any search ranking adjustment.

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3 Responses to “Are iframes bad for Search Engine Optimization?”

  1. Jason Says:

    Scott, thanks for the reply. I have been experimenting with GZIP and caches for the heavy graphics pages which has reduced some of the load time. However, I was thinking of using an iframe to completely eradicate the load pull from the header on each subsequent page. My next question is: when the search engines index the page, will it show up like a frameset page when a user finds it in the SERPS where only the page shows up without the other frames, or will it show up with the graphic header where it is suppose to be? thanks again

     

  2. Scott Says:

    Well, then that would be option 3 - it won’t show up at all.

    Unlike traditional frames, the content won’t bring in search traffic to frameset pages that have no navigation, - it just won’t bring in traffic at all, since the engines won’t even see what’s in the Iframe -

    not a big deal if you keep your good content outside the frame and it makes the page load faster - it sounds like a good solution to me!

     

  3. Jason Says:

    Scott,

    Appreciate it, I will give it a whirl and see what happens.

     

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