Search Engines and Frames

dave · #1 (**permalink**) 14-09-2006, 11:19 AM

I have recently inherited the maintanence of a website. It was designed using html frames a very long time ago. So the header is frame, side bar a frame and main content section a frame. It gets very few hits from search engines. I am suprised that it doesn't show up in many search queries. All the pages on the site are indexed by all the major search engines.
It does have a low page rank and I am working on that.

But my question is do search engines penalise your site for using frames?
Or am I missing something else?

Cormac · #2 (**permalink**) 14-09-2006, 11:25 AM

depends on how the frames are setup but if your index page only has two frames then that is all the spiders will read. (what...about 8 lines of code?)

dave · #3 (**permalink**) 14-09-2006, 11:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rollo

(what...about 8 lines of code?)

Yep about that.

So if the content is in a frame that is linked to on the index page.
What way will the search engine display a link to that page in a search result?
Would this be the reason why the site doesn't show up in many search results .

blacknight · #4 (**permalink**) 14-09-2006, 01:26 PM

You can mitigate that by using the

Code:

<noframes>

tag

dave · #5 (**permalink**) 14-09-2006, 02:34 PM

Thanks Michele

I didn't know that tag existed! Never liked frames.
I think I can work around the issue using that.

Dave

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