paulselhi
9-25-02, 08:19 PM
Some useful info i dug up :
There is an HTML tag called the NOFRAMES tag, which, when used properly, gives the search engine spiders the information they need to index your page correctly. I believe it was designed to give frames-incapable browsers — early versions of browsers that cannot read or interpret the FRAMESET tags — the ability to "see" the information on a framed site.
Unfortunately, too many sites that utilize this NOFRAMES tag put the following words into it: "You are using a browser that does not support frames. Update your browser now to view this page." It might as well say, "We are putting the kiss of death on our Web site and have no interest in being found in the search engines for relevant keywords regarding our site! Thanks for not visiting our site because you couldn't find it!"
What happens when you do the above is that the engines will read your TITLE and META tags (if you even included them) and the above information that the browser is frames-incapable, and that is what they will index for your site.
Try a search at AltaVista for the following: "does not support frames" and guess what? 260,882 pages are found! Nearly all of them are framed sites that used those words in their NOFRAMES tag. I bet that the circular-saw maker whose site is ranked number 1 for those keywords doesn't have a clue that he has put the kiss of death on his Web site! I also bet his site is nowhere to be found under the keyword "circular saws." (It isn't.)
If you want to have a framed site for whatever reason, then for goodness' sake, use your NOFRAMES tag properly! The proper usage of this tag is to take the complete HTML code from your inner page and copy it into the NOFRAMES tag.
So the code on your page should actually look something like this:
<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Your keyword-rich descriptive title goes here.</TITLE> <META NAME="Description" CONTENT="Your one- to two-sentence keyword-rich marketing description goes here."> <META NAME="Keywords" CONTENT="Your important relevant keywords and keyword phrases go here."> </HEAD> <FRAMESET> <FRAME SRC="navigation.html" NAME="nav"> <FRAME SRC="main.html" NAME="main"> <NOFRAMES> <BODY> Here is where you should copy all the HTML code for what I have named main.html. Be sure that you have all your navigational links to the rest of the site also in here for the search engines to follow. </BODY> </NOFRAMES> </FRAMESET> </HTML>
Once your inner page information is within this tag, it's as if your site is not framed at all as far as the search engines are concerned, because now they can read everything and index your site properly.
There is an HTML tag called the NOFRAMES tag, which, when used properly, gives the search engine spiders the information they need to index your page correctly. I believe it was designed to give frames-incapable browsers — early versions of browsers that cannot read or interpret the FRAMESET tags — the ability to "see" the information on a framed site.
Unfortunately, too many sites that utilize this NOFRAMES tag put the following words into it: "You are using a browser that does not support frames. Update your browser now to view this page." It might as well say, "We are putting the kiss of death on our Web site and have no interest in being found in the search engines for relevant keywords regarding our site! Thanks for not visiting our site because you couldn't find it!"
What happens when you do the above is that the engines will read your TITLE and META tags (if you even included them) and the above information that the browser is frames-incapable, and that is what they will index for your site.
Try a search at AltaVista for the following: "does not support frames" and guess what? 260,882 pages are found! Nearly all of them are framed sites that used those words in their NOFRAMES tag. I bet that the circular-saw maker whose site is ranked number 1 for those keywords doesn't have a clue that he has put the kiss of death on his Web site! I also bet his site is nowhere to be found under the keyword "circular saws." (It isn't.)
If you want to have a framed site for whatever reason, then for goodness' sake, use your NOFRAMES tag properly! The proper usage of this tag is to take the complete HTML code from your inner page and copy it into the NOFRAMES tag.
So the code on your page should actually look something like this:
<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Your keyword-rich descriptive title goes here.</TITLE> <META NAME="Description" CONTENT="Your one- to two-sentence keyword-rich marketing description goes here."> <META NAME="Keywords" CONTENT="Your important relevant keywords and keyword phrases go here."> </HEAD> <FRAMESET> <FRAME SRC="navigation.html" NAME="nav"> <FRAME SRC="main.html" NAME="main"> <NOFRAMES> <BODY> Here is where you should copy all the HTML code for what I have named main.html. Be sure that you have all your navigational links to the rest of the site also in here for the search engines to follow. </BODY> </NOFRAMES> </FRAMESET> </HTML>
Once your inner page information is within this tag, it's as if your site is not framed at all as far as the search engines are concerned, because now they can read everything and index your site properly.