iFrames - how do search engines read them?

Question

I know that search engines base part of the calculation of rankings on how many other sites point to a specific site, so I was just wondering, given the following situation:

• http://siteA/page.aspx contains an iFrame.
• This iFrame points to http://siteB/script.aspx?url=http://siteA/page.aspx.
• http://siteB/script.aspx generates a list of 1 or more links based on the supplied URL.
• http://siteA/page.aspx therefore displays a list of links.

1) Where would Google etc consider links to be based?

2) If it would consider the links to be based at siteB, is there another technique I could use to force search engines to read the links as being based at siteA? For example ajax.

Thanks in advance,

Regards,

Richard

Answer 1

First of all, if you're looking to build a link farm Google will block you faster than you can blink. I would seriously reconsider using iframes to links as in the situation you've described you've no reason to load another page on your first.

To answer your question, iframes load a page on another, so naturally Google will view them as separate entities.