: Will a search engine lower the rank of my page if i have hidden iframes? As a praxis, all external content on our site is put in iframes to lower the risks of any external parties injecting

@Reiling115

No, it will not affect your ranking but, from a search engine optimization point of view, the use of the iframe is problematic for several reasons. Mainly, whenever a search engine spiders the content that’s within an iframe, the search engine will normally link to the iframed page itself instead of the page it is housed within. This is not optimal for keeping the attention of search engine spiders.

It should never be used as an integral part of your site, but as a piece of content within a site. Usually, if you can do it without an iframe, that is a better option. It all comes down to the problem you are trying to solve.

With that said, if you are limited to HTML and have no access to a back-end like PHP or ASP.NET etc, sometimes an iframe is your only option.

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@Martha676

Very hard to talk about rank since most Search Engine alghoritms are pretty much a secret for obvious reasons.

But it seems iframes are not detrimental at least acording to this post: www.convonix.com/blog/search-engine-optimization/iframes-seo-friendly-crawlable-optimization-google/

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