: Reverse iframe breakout I have around 500 pages, some of which are simply PDF files, that are meant to be viewed within an iframe on a seperate domain parent page (files are subdomained, however

@BetL925

Canonical links would be the "proper" way, I would think. Google even supports an HTTP header for use on PDFs and similar.
support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139394?hl=en

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@Alves908

You could use .htaccess redirection to the subdomain pages. That redirects to your PHP enabled subdomain and add some variables in your pretty URL and handle using an iframe or not depending on where you come from in a PHP file. This will be the only way to have some decent SEO to these files.

Simple for example:

redirect
domain.com/pdf/filename
to
subdomain.domain.com/pdfhandler.php?parentdomain=1&filename=filename


You can find a lot of examples on the use of .htaccess redirects on StackExchange Pro Webmasters.

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@Speyer207

For ranking purposes you should move away from using an iframe and a sub domain all together. The method forward would be to embed your PDF files on directly onto the pages on the main domain using JS.

PDF.JS

I recommend you take a look at pdf.js on github additionally you can view a online demo of pdf.js here. Looks superb and far cleaner than dirty 1990's iframes.

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