: SEO and canonical links I've a site abc.com where the content is being served from a frame hosted at def.com. Since, the content is hosted at def.com, the microdata information is not available

@LarsenBagley505

You're basically digging a hole with your setup right now.

To start, run your setup through webpagetest.org and you'll notice extra latency to produce the content since you're doing two separate DNS lookups. One for abc.com and one for def.com.

On top of that, you're basically splitting one webpage into two making the content rather fragmented at best. These problems alone will rank your page low or may not even be indexed at all.

I'll explain the fragmentation.

You say your def.com site has a frame pointing to abc.com. Then on def.com you have the following user readable contents:

"This is a story about a"


Then on abc.com domain, you have the following user readable contents:

"garden"


Put it together and you think you'd have a page that is supposed to contain:

"This is a story about a garden"


But search engines will actually see def.com as:

"This is a story about a"


That's what I mean. I am being super simple here, but you get the point.

Here's what I suggest...

Combine the information from the two domains to make one webpage on the domain you want the page to be served from (which should be abc.com since thats what the site you want to rank). That way, the loading time is drastically reduced, and search engines will then be able to see all of the content in one go. On top of that, you won't need to use canonical tags if you take my suggestion.

Then anyone who accesses def.com should receive a 301 status page with a redirection to abc.com where ALL the content should be. No IFrame is needed and no canonical tag is needed.

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