Frame busting code

[Bernard]

Reading another forum, I happened upon someone who was complaining about a 3rd party who was linking to his site, but framing the result with their AdSense in the frameset.

Now that Google is allowing AdSense to display on framesets, it would appear that just about anyone can frame any site they wish and put AdSense in the frameset. While this would seem to violate their guideline on publishing pages specifically for AdSense (https://www.google.com/adsense/policies), it is not clear that it really matters to Google (http://www.ihelpyouservices.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=17330).

So I did some searching and came across this site describing some frame busting code:

http://grizzlyweb.com/webmaster/javascripts/framesbuster.asp

Are there any (SEO) downsides to using this code on a page?

[ihelpyou]

It makes you wonder how much more Google is going to change because they have stockholders telling them what to do now?

I don't like they are allowing this. Not one bit.

[french dread]

A usability downside is that you will also block many online translators who use frames like google's one...

[Quadrille]

I was given this one:


<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
<!--
if (window != top) top.location.href = location.href;
// -->
</SCRIPT>


But I don't know if it's essentially the same ...

[Bernard]

Thanks Seb. That's an important consideration for me. I get a lot of referrals from country specific Google searches and see quite a few translator referrals in my logs in a recurring fashion.

I guess, for me at least, it will be an action of last resort.