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        • nopsts
          nopsts last edited by

          I have 6 different iframe blocks (with same content in those iframes) in every page of my website. I know iframe don't be crawled by search engines but, maybe you experts give me some advice?

          Is that negative for SEO ?

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          • sachin-sv
            sachin-sv last edited by

            Hi There,

            First of all, let me clear one point- **Google supports frames and iframes but to the extent that it can. **this means, Google does not support frames and iFrames completely.

            However, Google is often capable of crawling iFrames on webpages if the iFrames are SEO-friendly. In fact, Google is capable of passing link juice via iFrames (read more about it here- https://www.seroundtable.com/google-iframe-link-14558.html).

            In my personal opinion, _**avoid ****using iFrames if you can, **_because they are not 100 percent SEs friendly. If it is required then you should take the effort to make iFrames as Google-Friendly as you can. Here are few tips for that:

            -You can index your iFrame trough robots.txt

            • use Google web master tools to add the URL of the iframe source to be crawled. However, this will only index the iFrame and not the parent HTML document. So it won't score high on the Search Engine Result page.

            -if you have frames on the master page of your website, to ensure Google crawls the entire website, ensure that you include links to other pages within the website inside the no frames area of the master page.

            - ensure your main or surrounding page highlights more when it comes to search engines. It’s best not to make your main page simply a placeholder for one iFrame or even multiple iFrames.

            -Try to move as much info as possible from iFrames to the main page. Overall, your main page should at least describe the content within the iFrames.

            _- I_f you want the iframe to be indexed by google, include a link from the parent page to the iframe page.

            • Add meta tags to the master page. However, meta tags are only a partial solution, because not all the search engines support them.

            Most search engine spiders will only see the master page. Just like an old browser, they don't understand the instructions on how to produce the frame layout. These are ignored, and only information within the noframes tags is read. so use noframe tags also.

            Apart from this, I would recommend you to read the following article as well- http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2064573/Search-Engines-and-Frames

            Hope this will help!

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            • nopsts
              nopsts @Chris.Menke last edited by

              Thank you for Good Answer 🙂

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              • nopsts
                nopsts @kayintveen_MD last edited by

                i am using them for static text content "about us" and "client testimonials" those iframes got some java, jqueries and texts.

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                • Chris.Menke
                  Chris.Menke last edited by

                  nopsts,

                  It's not going to hurt your site to have all those iframes but the content within the iframes will not help you in any way, either.  If you have plenty of good content on those pages in addition to what's in the the iframes, it's a positive for you.  However, you're out of luck if you are counting on the content in those frames to help you in any way.

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                  • kayintveen_MD
                    kayintveen_MD last edited by

                    You are already answering it yourself a little. iFrames are really bad practice and can through-off search engine bots. If you say the content in the frames are all the same a few alarm-bells go off as well. Why would you want to use frames anyways? maybe you can clarify that a little or show us a the example so we can make the advice a little specific what to do next.

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