Link equity of ifram

[andreas.wpv]

If I link an iframe to pull its content - does that count as inbound link for the iframed content? Am I passing linklove to that page?

I am on x.com and have an iframe pull content from z.com. Does this give linklove from x to z.com?

(I am NOT asking if the z context is indexed in x, although I am weary to follow the most frequent statement that they do not. Google states that they will try to pull the content from the iframe, but don't guarantee it.)

[EricaMcGillivray]

Google often treats each iframe as it's own html page. Though they say that they try to link the iframe back to the page it's being displayed on; from my experience, this does not seem to happen very often. So, yes, it would give linklove from x.com to z.com. Though beware as it's going into gray hat territory.

[andreas.wpv]

Thanks. We're not trying to trick anything, but we're thinking about the effects it has. Some cases where we might NOT want to give link equity to frame content (internally or externally) and for internal content perhaps set up a robots rule as this might be incomplete pages we don't want indexed. Thanks!