Iframe
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Hello,
Just wondering if frames are read by google bot and if so how is is different than anything else ?
Good or bad for seo ?
Thank you,
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Thank you for the links and detailed reply. Looking at this template do you think it can have iframe issues ?
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Frames can, still in 2018, also cause search engines major problems.
For instance, a search engine may only deliver the content frame when accessed through deep links in the SERPs (search engine results pages) – thus rendering your well-thought-out navigation to other pages redundant. I have seen many sites appear in Google complete with a missing navigation system on the page.
If you are serious about organic search engine optimization, forget about using, or optimizing frames. Google is not really designed to prioritize such URLs that embed content in an iframe from another page. Google prefers (in general) to present the source URL if it can.
If you control both pages, then you may be able to use a Link Rel Canonical on the source page that is pulled into the Iframe to point to the page that contains the Iframe. Canonical link elements are only a hint to Google, though, and if users prefer the original, in my experience Google can, in time, opt to present the original source page in SERPS, despite what Google is directed to do in any canonical link element.
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