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Topic: search engines and frames

Posted By: JohnC
Subject: search engines and frames
Date Posted: 23 July 2003 at 12:53pm

I'm having a lot of trouble with search engines and a frames site I built for a client.

I've tried very hard to learn and understand the relationship between seach engines and frames, but I've come to realize that anything to do with search engines is complex at best.

Could somebody out there have a look at my site and its meta tags and let me know what I'm doing wrong.

The site is http://www.trailconnections.ca - www.trailconnections.ca

JohnC

http://www.realmwr.net - www.realmwr.net

Replies:

Posted By: KCWebMonkey
Date Posted: 23 July 2003 at 10:10pm

umm....the meta tags are in the right place, but you have no real keywords, nor a real description...

Posted By: JohnC
Date Posted: 24 July 2003 at 7:59am

Thanks for your reply, but it doesn't really tell me anything.

Could you perhaps be a little more specific?

JohnC

http://www.realmwr.net - www.realmwr.net

Posted By: KCWebMonkey
Date Posted: 24 July 2003 at 11:26am

view the source code of the individual framed pages... they all have the following code:

I would suggest updating that with real content.

Posted By: JohnC
Date Posted: 25 July 2003 at 6:49pm

To KCWebMonkey: Thank you very much, I hadn't realized I'd done that. I guess closer inspection of all my pages is warranted.

JohnC

Posted By: abhinav
Date Posted: 30 July 2003 at 9:39am

experience:non-framed pages are always on better than framed ones for search engines

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Posted By: ray12
Date Posted: 31 July 2003 at 10:06pm

Are you talking about external search engines like Google? and that they're not including pages of your site? Or you have difficulty making your own one?

Most search engines use a spider to crawl for content, following the links from page to page, and given just the index page (which usually only contains a frameset), it may not find the other pages of your website to look for content in.

So, long story short: a site map which links to all the other pages of your website usually helps search engines find your pages. It also helps usability too.