iFrames and SEO

A lot of people always wonder about iFrames and SEO. Some will tell you its not a problem but if you really are wanting to know the truth then its pretty plain.

You have to consider why your using an iFrame instead of having on-page content. Most of the time the reason why your using an iFrame is to pull content from another domain.

This one is pretty simple.

When the content displayed on your site through an iFrame is from another domain, your site does not benefit from this content. Even though it’s being displayed on your pages, it still is being pulled from another source and does not live on your domain. I’ve seen this happen in the Recruitment industry where a lot of sites use iFrames for things like searches, jobs ect and  is being hosted on another domain and is being pulled to the main domain through an iFrame. Even though the content is unique and exclusive to that company, your site is not benefiting from the frequently updated and content-rich resource.

So if you really want better SEO for your website then you shouldn’t be using iFrames.

It doesn’t do your site any good to have content displayed on your pages, but hosted on another domain, and it stifles optimization and spiderability when iFrames are used to display windows of text from other URLs on your own site.

~ by whatstobuy on April 11, 2009.