SEO & IFrame problem
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Hi All,
I will try and keep this as simple as possible.
My product page links to a separate page with an IFrame, giving my users the option to upload artwork for the product. The IFrame contains the external file upload site (mail big file). When finished, the user can use a button link to return to the product page to continue with their order.
As soon as the page with the IFrame was crawled by Google, the IFrame page started to rank in place of where my product page used to rank, yet there is no content on the page relating to my product (just a file upload).
So now users are visiting the IFrame via the same query which must be an absolute headache and not useful at all.
I have tried the following:
1. Added a line in body text which contains an internal link pointing to the product page using exact match anchor text for the query. (This didn't work)
2. I applied a no index tag to the IFrame, and now my product page is no longer ranking at all.
Can anyone help me solve this puzzle. I believe I might be missing something.
Kind regards,
Adam
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Hi,
That is a confusing problem, but it seems like most of the page content is coming from the Iframe and not the page itself. If you can I would use "No Follow" and "NoIndex" tags on the Iframe and see if that helps. If possible I would build out the content on the correct page as much as possible without affecting its usability too much.
Also, you can try "rel canonical" to the correct page and hopefully that will help.
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