excite not indexing noframes content?

[juventus]

Hello,

I have read on excite site that its spider don't index the noframes content...

Could anyone confirm this?

Thanks in advance for your help

David Camus
Search engine optimizer

[tedster]

That's been my experience, juventus. I'd like to see that Excite page where you read this. Would you post the url or send it to me on sticky mail?

I was going to wise-off and say Excite doesn't index anything these days. However, they are hawking for LookSmart, and I just noticed that they promise inclusion in the Excite search index if you submit to LookSmart through Excite.

Weather Report: It's snowing on Excite's home page. Funny thing was, on the first load I got a broken link on the snowflake image and had a fall of red x's!

[juventus]

Here is the text found in excite help section(http://www.excite.com/info/getting_listed/find_your_site/) :

"Framed content is not indexable. We suggest creating a section that contains the content represented in the main frame of your page. Our spider can access the text in the no-frames section and thus index your site. This content will not be displayed by frames-capable browsers."

[rencke]

>Our spider can access the text in the no-frames section and thus index your site

What you do is to take (or make) a good old-fashioned page with headers, subheaders, text and links to all other pages in your site. You then place it between <noframes> and </noframes> inside the framset and it will be indexed properly. You can place a lot of text in here, 10 - 30 Kb is not wrong.