Does IFrames affect google crawling your site?

Discussion in 'Google' started by daworm, Oct 24, 2006.

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    I am planning to use IFrame for my site since some of the lists I have on the site are too long and I don't want to implement any pagination on it.

    Will that affect the crawling ability of google bots to my site?
     
    daworm, Oct 24, 2006 IP
  2. kh7

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    Yes - it will also confuse your visitors: they may come to the page in the i-frame and not know how to get to the main site. I would say: resist the temptation to use i-frames or any other type of frames. If a list is too long, try splitting it up by subject.
     
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    Iframes is not a good point of SEO
    Olso i personaly don't like the estetich of iframes
    Regards hope my post helps you
     
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    Iframe suck for seo, dont use it.
     
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    I disagree with some of the comments you've received here.

    Iframes can work great for a layout like you are talking about, having a list in the iframe so you don't end up with a long page.

    I'd set it up so that the iframe doesn't load another page. Just put the content inside the iframe tags. Search engines will crawl it just fine. And you will have the layout you want.

    Just to clarify though - we are talking about iframes, not 'break up the page into pieces' frames.
     
    Christopher, Oct 24, 2006 IP
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    Focus More On Having a Better View Of the website than on SEO terms

    If the website is not eye-catchy then who visits it

    you will then get backlinks and rankings
     
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    I used to have iframes running on this site ..

    http://techtadka.net

    after the experience i had, i advise you and any other person reading this thread and having the same query to avoid iframes at all costs..

    google did still index my pages but i had a sitemap to tell it to do so.. and i think usually google will not crawl iframe content..

    some other problems are -

    - url of site pages..they remain the same as the new page loads in iframe and no workaround for this
    - problems with adsense if you plan to use on your site

    using iframes is just not worth the trouble .. use only if the content in iframe is irelevant to being crawled
     
    abhishekghosh333, Mar 8, 2009 IP