Are Frames Still Bad for SEO

[bertismus]

Hello All,

 

In searching through the "responsive" templates, I have found many are build in frames. It's common knowledge that in the past, frames are a huge deterrent to SEO. Is this still true and should templates built in frames be avoided?

 

Looking forward to your [spam-filter] knowledge! 

[alastairbrian]

Yes they are however they do not effect website negatively. SEO guys calls it bad just because they feel like a big space is going useless as Google cannot read it. However those who know internet marketing well they will just simply say Google as what make user experience better let the search engines be the second.

 

[PrestaSOO]

If you are using iframes to display the information on your site, there are solutions that are more SEO friendly. The iframe lets you use content from another source. Search engines can see where this source is so they don’t consider it duplicate content, but they will give the credit for this great website to the original source.

 

Instead of using content from another website, study the material you were considering pulling into your iframe, and write your own unique content, and post it on your website using a <div> tag which can be customized with a scrolling function to look just like the iframe that was there before.

 

Your visitors won’t know the difference but Google will suddenly see you as a valuable resource of unique, topical information and rank you accordingly.

Edited October 2, 2013 by WiaXi (see edit history)