: How to make content displayed in and iFrame crawlable? My company sells a solution for doing Q&A for products on e-commerce websites. The client must add a div containing a link and some

@BetL925

I'm pretty sure the content in an iframe it's always going to be read as coming from the iframe page, and not the page the iframe is embedded on.

I have tried in the past defining a canonical tag on the iframe page referencing the page with the iframe on to try and associate the content with that page (as you mentioned in the comments). However every time I tried this the canonical tag was ignored (as you might imagine, as there is no similar content) and the content was still indexed in the SERPs on the iframe page and not the the other page. Perhaps other people have had different results, as to when I experimented?

Also I might add, if the Q&A text is going to be the same over many websites, then if the content gets indexed there could be duplicate content issues. I only mention this as I see lots of duplicate content in similar FAQ sections on sites. Although if its unique to the site, that's fine.

Google mentions here Frames


Google tries to associate framed content with the page containing the frames, but we don't guarantee that we will.


However, I don't think I've seen it actually doing this myself.

I think the best bet would be using something other than iframes to display the content.

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