Hi Is content that is inside an iframe visile to search engine spiders ? I am trying to hide certain content from the spiders and was using javascript includes but the complexity of the site has increased and cause this solution to become unviable ? If anyone has any good ideas for making certain parts of the page invisible to the engines, that would be much appreciated too ? Thanks Marx
I think not.. Iframe is similar with frame tag in html... Why don't You use <div .css format. It like with a frame....And .css can be external file which youjust call for it... css is SE spider friendly unlike with iframe and frame... Optimizing Frames If your site uses frames, you've got problems - as far as the search engines are concerned anyway! The problem is that search engines do not index framed sites very well. In fact, the search engines do such a poor job of indexing frames that is recommended redesigning your site without them if you want to get good listings in the search engines......"quoted from source"
Marx, I know of a site that uses IFrames to present one set of text to the human observer and another - more keyword rich - set of text to the search engines. At this stage the engines including Google appear to read and index the hidden text.
For what you want an iframe should do fine. If you want to be sure the content in the iframe isn't indexed, put it in a different directory and exclude that directory from the search engines with a robot.txt file. It's also possible to make sure the information in the iframe isn't indexed by using a metatag. 'no-index'. (or something).