I'm being outranked by iframe of my ownsite

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My website is being outranked by another third party website through an iframe of my website. Their website is featuring my website through an iFrame on a basic page. This page consists of a header, iFrame and footer.

Canonical is set for my website. They are ranking for keywords from my website and I no longer show up on google for most keywords.

Could I be demoted as Google has deemed this website more trustworthy? or better? or is this negative SEO at work? I have found hundreds of sites that are direct clones of mine, could that do something?

I guess I'm grabbing straws looking for the cause.

[EDIT] Our website is in YMYL health-related industry; we currently do not have our articles medically checked.

The website outranking us is a legitimate health business in the US and is recognized in their field. They have for a long time provided some of our content to their users through an iframe. Our website is older and has many more backlinks. Our website: over 1K external BL. Their website: 3 external BL

Solution :

If the iframe URL is ranking better than your intended page you could use it to put your content on.

Use a subdomain to serve your iframe content and you can keep the entire subdomain out of Google’s index.

1. Create subdomain to serve iframe content and disallow crawling.


2. Move content to iframe URL


3. Redirect old URL to the iframe URL

I am very curious how this happened. My guess is that the iframe URL started to acquire links or Google likes the URL better. Hard to say without more information.

Alternatively, you could use the current URL and redirect the old iframe. About the same either way but why fight what is ranking?

I agree with @keepkalm. The most reasonable explanation for an iframe to outrank (or rank at all to be fair) is that they have significantly more links to this page than the page you are competing with.

If the issue about seo, google, google-search, search-engine-indexing is resolved, there’s a good chance that your content will get indexed and you’ll start to show up in Google search results. This means a greater chance to drive organic search traffic to your site.