Does robots index contents inside <iframe> or javascript content?

Discussion in 'Google' started by ads2help, Feb 19, 2009.

  1. #1
    Two questions here.

    1. Does robots like googlebot index the contents inside an iframe??

    2. How about content generated by javascript?
    eg:
    document.write('<a href="mysite.net">anchor</a>')
    HTML:
    I think the answer for question 2 is a No, am I right?

    Thank you.

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  2. Timehacker

    Timehacker Peon

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    I think the answer is NO for both questions...
     
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  3. ads2help

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    Thanks. But I need more answers to confirm.

    Thank you!

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    iam sure that bots dont understand anything within a javascript.so its useless for indexing.Regarding the iframe iam not sure .
     
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    robot does not understand anything in iframe and javascript

    Read this, it will be helpful for you

    http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=72746


     
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    from what i knew, google can read javascript lately... but it won't read content from iFrames.
     
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    Thanks for all the replies!!

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