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HTML frame
The unframed design always gets higher traffic from search engines than framed once. If your site uses an HTML frame, you have problems - as far as the search engines are concerned anyway.
The problem is that search engines do not index an HTML frame very well. In fact, the search engines do such a poor job of indexing frames that we recommend redesigning your site without them, if you want to get good listings in the search engines.
HTML Frameset
An HTML frame is an HTML page that "frames" other HTML pages within an HTML frameset tag. In most cases, a framed site will only have one page you can submit to the search engines - the home page containing a html frameset and a couple of frame tags.
Since your site uses an HTML frame, the home page actually does not have any content that can be used to determine how to list your site. Here is an example that should help you see what we mean. Keep in mind that this code is what the search engines see:
<html>
<head>
<title>Framed Site</title>
</head>
<frameset cols="150,*">
<frame name="left"target="right">
<frame name="right">
</frameset >
</html>
No frames
Now, if your site must use frames there are some tips we recommend that you implement to make sure that you get the best listings you can even with frames.
The best thing you can do to improve your results is to use the noframes tag within your frameset. This tag was originally used for displaying content to people using older web browsers that did not support viewing frames. While just about all web browsers now support frames, the noframes tag can still be used for content that will help your framed site get listed. In addition, you should also implement the best title tag and meta tags that you can.
<html>
<head>
<title>Framed Site</ title>
</head>
<frameset cols="150,*">
<frame name="left" target="right">
<frame name="right">
<noframes>
Optimized page content goes here
</noframes>
</frameset>
</html>
Html Frame and Search Engine Optimization
Place optimized content within the <body> tags that you see above within
the <noframes> tag. An easy way to do this is to create a new regular
(not framed) home page for your site that describes your site, products & services.
Often the content can be taken directly from one of your existing framed pages.
Once you have the page created, view the
HTML of the page and copy everything from within the <body> and
</body> tags. Then paste the new content within the <body> and
</body> tags found within the <noframes> tags of your frameset. A
complete page (including all the HTML) can be placed within the body tags.
Search engines like simple HTML pages, so since it is
very unlikely anyone will ever see this <noframes> content, we recommend
keeping it very simple and text-based for best results.
Make sure all your <noframes> content is optimized following all our
tips. If it is not optimized, it is not going to help you very much.
Include links in the <noframes> content to all
of the other important pages on your site so that the search engine will crawl
and index them too. Implement the best title tag and meta tags that you can on
the frameset page.
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