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Web Witch
10-06-2001, 13:33/01:33PM
....if using a frames in you web design how do you stop search engine from finding say only the content page without the nav frame?

:moonman: shouldn't he be called Space Shot?

Thanks.
ihelpyou
10-06-2001, 13:49/01:49PM
Very good question.. :smart:

What I do for the content page if it may be ranked is this;

Between the <head> tags I will place this javascript code:

<script>

if (parent.location.href == self.location.href){
window.location.href = 'index.html?pageID=100'
}

</script>


This will call up the main frameset page. You need to make the pageID= a different number for every content page.

Otherwise, just make sure the links in the content page all go directly to your main frameset.

I should add that I am not a fan of frames at all. They are hard to optimize for and hard to get good ranks.

Furthermore, frames only do what they are suppose to do if the web designer truly knows what they are doing. Otherwise, the look and navigation comes out real bad.
Blue
11-06-2001, 12:49/12:49PM
If you think about this gentleman's article, it makes a lot of sense (at least to me).

Read it here (http://www.2-tier.com/page.cfm/1919).
Advisor
13-07-2001, 16:43/04:43PM
The javascript thing Doug posted is good. But even without it, as long as you have at least a link back to the home page from all the inner framed pages, it's better than nothing. Try to also put your logo, and company name, etc. on all the inner pages too. That way if they get found in the engines (or if you want them to get found) they won't be orphaned pages.

I have an article about how to get framed sites listed in the engines at:

rankwrite.com/framedsite.htm

It's really not hard to get them listed. I've done a few and had great results. You just have to make sure you do everything right.

Jill