Frames and Search Engines - How to...

[ChrisMacPherson]

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I use frames on my page, and I want to know if this causes any problems when submitting your site on a search engine. I read on the net, to maybe provide links and information in the <noframes> tag in the frameset, for non-frame search engines, but do frames cause any other difficulties? [sig]<p>Chris MacPherson<br><a href=mailto:thedamager@hotmail.com>thedamager@hotmail.com</a><br><a href=

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[WebGodiva]

It does cause problems with search engines since your frameset is your index page.

I have been working with a lot of designers who are starting to place their META tags in every HTML document they create and they also include it in the frameset. It doesn't disrupt the frameset from working properly - this is one of the workarounds. Also, you could place it in the frame set with the <!-- <META TAG> --> so that if a browser with a problem with it hits it - it will ignore it.

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[ChrisMacPherson]

Yeh, I use META tags in all of the html pages that I write, but now what I need is a little script, so that if someone searches and finds a page from my site, instead of loading up the page which should be in a frame, into the whole window, it loads the index file with the specific page in the correct frame. I have been thinking about this and can probably work it out. Checking whether the page is at the 'top' will probably do (top.document.href or somthing should do, that may be wrong!) but then making sure the page enters the right frame might be hard if there is many frames. I dunno, but getting back to the original question... I am sure that some of the pages I have made should be higher up in the search engines(judging by other sites!) and they all contain frames, so I need to know how to get better rankings, without resorting to tables, as netscape is just crap with tables + CSS! and CSS is what i would like to move on with a bit more.

Cheers for the info though. [sig]<p>Chris MacPherson<br><a href=mailto:thedamager@hotmail.com>thedamager@hotmail.com</a><br><a href=

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