frame tag

is there a tag for websites with frames

[AliceJ]

When you have a website that is designed in frames, do you need a specific tag in the code to have your content within the frames read by search engines? I recently looked at the source for my page and the content that can be viewed on the page is not listed when i "view source" Thanks

[edited by: AliceJ at 9:50 pm (utc) on July 2, 2003]

[wkitty42]

it probably is when you view source to the frame in question... in mozilla, you right click in the desired frame and then go to the "this frame" menu item which then expands and allows you to select the "view source" menu option... i don't do IE (other than rarely) so can't help there...

[tedster]

...do you need a specific tag in the code to have your content within the frames read by search engines?

Not a problem with the major engines today -- but you used to be plum out of luck.

What you do need to consider is that search engines will be sending traffic DIRECTLY to your framed pages, so those pages will be orphaned from the parent frameset. Making sure those visitors have a way to get to your entire site is important.

One solution, using javascript, can be found on message #21 of our generic javascript [webmasterworld.com] thread. You can also make sure that EACH frame page has at least one link to the main frameset. That will handle visitors with javascript turned off.