Posted by Aleet on December 10, 2011 at 1:36pm
Hello,
I am adding some wikipedia.org content to my website in iframes, as a convenience to the users of the site. Each iframe is in a separate page of its own.
I am wondering if google sees the iframes inside my site as duplicate content and this might count against my site's SE ranking.
If so, would it help if I specify that the duplicate content pages not be searched? How should I do it - in the robots.txt or better to do it via meta tags?
(I thought this question must've been asked before but couldn't find a duplicate. site:groups.drupal.org/seo iframes)
Categories: iframe
Comments
No
The major search engines won't parse IFRAME content as a component of the page the content is framed in. They will parse the link to the framed content but that shouldn't cause your site an issue. If you want your pages to rank well, include content (non framed) on each of the pages to supplement the framed content. Otherwise, the page will be void of any content of value to the search engines.
I agree
Excellira's answer is dead on.
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