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Jan 18.2010

Hey everyone. I am using a service called shoutmix for people to add comments to my site. The code looks like this:

[code=html]<div id=”comments”>
<!– Begin ShoutMix – http://www.shoutmix.com –>
<iframe title=”Captainkewl” src=”http://www6.shoutmix.com/?Captainkewl” width=”700″ height=”400″ frameborder=”0″ scrolling=”auto”>
<a href=”http://www6.shoutmix.com/?Captainkewl”>View shoutbox</a>
</iframe>
<!– End ShoutMix –>
</div>[/code]

I was wondering when google crawls my site, will it be able to pick up the comments (changing content) since it is using iframe?

The site is [url]http://free-webpage-templates.net[/url]

Thanks.

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@Christophe27Jan 21.2010 — Hi,

Never work with frames! These are a big nono in SEO!

Best,

Christophe
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@Haze1434Feb 01.2010 — Anything in an iFrame is omitted from search engine results... it simply won't find any content that is inside an iFrame when it searches your pages.

Try researching the #include command, or alternatively the javascript equivilent of includes.

However, it may not be possible to use includes with the script for your comments section.

If it is a free comments area, you may not be able to avoid having it as an iFrame, and therefore users cannot search via any of the comments posted on your site.
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@silverlineFeb 15.2010 — Never use inframe instead use php's include function for the same purpose
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@ArtphotoasiAFeb 15.2010 — forget about........ I was used to use frames.... no more.... SEO hate those
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@johnalexFeb 15.2010 — Do not use iframes. Search engine can not read contents of iframe. Iframes are not good not bad because search engine can noi read iframes.
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@ShopDownLiteFeb 17.2010 — Don't use iframe tag, it is not SEO friendly, google will not crawl your site frequently, please read google web master guidelines for more details.
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