An iframe is an HTML element that creates an "inline frame" within a document.
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Do we still need to avoid using frames and iframes for SEO?
I thought frame and iframe were bad for SEO, but today I was doing a search for "numismatica" on Google.it. The 3rd site is lemonete.com which is all made with frames. A competitor site (nummus.com) that has no frames ranks much lower when…
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Does an iframe count as a backlink to my domain?
I have the following situation:
Iframe case web page www.notMyWebPage.com contains an iframe that points to my domain (the contents of the iframe are loaded from www.myWebPage.com)
Link case web page www.notMyWebPage.com contains a link that points…
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Do iframes have access to the cookies of the hosting domain?
We want to build an ad-frame which will run on external sites (e.g. YYY.com). The external site will place an iframe to our site (ZZZ.com/ourAdContent.html) and we will show some ads in this frame. The question is, will our iframe have access to the…
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How can I stop Google from indexing embedded iframes?
I have iframe widgets of external sources embedded on my website. For some reason Google seems to be indexing the URLs of the iframes and showing 404 errors for such URLs in the Crawl Section of Google Webmaster Tools. How can I stop Google from…
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Double vs Single Quotes in Chrome
So when you want to embed google docs on a site you are given this chunk of code:
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Index the content within an iframe
We have created an web application that gives the client the possibility to use his websites as an online showroom (cars, bikes, etc etc).
What is offered is photo's, information about the vehicles and so on.
However, we would like to offer this as…
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Is there any good reason I would want my website to be framed?
I'm building a website that's not security-critical in any way at all, so having somebody put a page in an
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Does meta name=robots content=nofollow prevent indexing iframes?
Let's say I have a publicly accessible page that contains an iframe back to a different page on my own domain. By default, google (and other crawlers) will index that page and the iframe's content. It may also associate that iframe content with the…
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Possible to only load specific div of a website?
I have this project I'm working on and id like to add a really small list of nearby places using Facebook's places in an iframe feature from touch.facebook.com. I can easily just use touch.facebook.com/#places.php but then that loads the top bars.…
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Firefox, iframes and redirects
I encountered this same behavior years ago and gave up back then when I couldn't find a solution. I'm hoping someone knows what's going on here and how to solve it.
I have found that if you have a page in Firefox that contains an iframe and in that…
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Google displaying Facebook "SECURITY WARNING" in result description
As of about 10 days ago, Google replaced the meta description in our organic SERP for "scorebig" with the following text:
SECURITY WARNING: Please treat the URL above as you would your password and do not share it with anyone. See the Facebook Help…
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Will "jailing" a single page inside an iframe using a JavaScript redirect be considered as cloaking?
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I have a website that uses iframes to display content. If the URL to a content is called directly by the user it should be "jailed" into the main page.
The main page provides a header and a footer as well as the navigation menu. There is…
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Google analytics iframe code measuring visitor as two visitors
I'm trying to measure visitors in an iframe and the site containing the iframe.
What I would like is that visitors clicks in the iframe are seen being from the same visitor as the containing site, but somehow it is seen as two seperate visitors.
I…
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What can be done through XFrames, as compared to IFrame in html?
What can be done through XFrames, as compared to iframe in html?
Is there any new feature other than making it easier to bookmark in XFrame as compared to IFrame?
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How to add iframe to vbulletin?
I want users to be able to embed to iframe videos, no matter from which site. Currently when you do that, the system seems to strip the iframe. I am wondering how to enable posting iframe. I also I'd like to know whether there are any risks in…
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