OK I have some pages that are getting visitors from google etc. But they have a high bounce rate which I obviously want to lower. I have placed an iframe on those page that contains links to other pages on my website that they might find interesting. This iframe is imbedded in the text like a picture would be... complete with border to highlight it and seperate it from the text. Question is how is this going to affect bounce rate. Page 1 is the page in question. suggest.htm is the page in the iframe. Page 2 is linked to from the suggest.htm page. Page 1 and 2 both have google analytics code on them, the suggest.htm page does not because it is only 3 lines of info that fits in a box... not really a page in the traditional sense. So if google sends a visitor to page 1 and they click on the link in suggest.htm and it via _top changes the page 1 to page 2. Will that lower the bounce rate for page 1. I hope that is clear.
It will be as if the user went from page 1 to page 2 via a link from page 1's HTML. The fact that the link is fired from suggest.html in an iframe will not make a difference. However you might like to consider that search engines are likely to be fairly confused by this arrangement - can you not just pull out suggest.htm's content using a PHP include or similar? Do you have to use iFrames?