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Example script
...if (top == self) self.location.href = "www.MyFrameset.com"...
I optimised many sites using frames. I must confess, I like to do that! ;)
I cannot tell if your pages are going to be penalised, but I swear you can get good results.
Generally I optimise my clients sites. I do not built them. The results are much better
3 months after the job but the whole site have been optimised. So I can't tell of any penality factor.
I recommend to use external script on your main pages and to feed well the <NOFRAMES> erea of the framesets.
Ideally, I build 1 frameset per main page. One funny thing, many of my sites score better with framesets than with main pages.
More details in this tread [webmasterworld.com]
Deciding that Google had finally trained its bot to understand javascript redirection I made the javascript into an external .JS script instead of embedding the code in the pages and within two weeks the pages were again listed well in the database. No other changes were made in this time. Draw your own conclusions.
Your were lucky to get any changes in two weeks on Google. It takes Google up to 3 months to index any changes.
Not my experience. 2-3 weeks is do-able if you hit it just right.
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>well indexed for a long time previously
Same here.
6 weeks was my best score. Still have much to learn...
- does the .js file have open and close <script> tags?
- Can I put html code into the .js file?
- What code is used to call the .js file?
When do you suppose Google will learn to penalize an external redirect .js?
The .JS file itself is pure text (Notepad or similar is fine, just save as .js instead of .txt).
The JS file includes your javascript without the Script tag, and without the opening <!-- and closing //--> tags, since only javascript enabled browsers (or spiders) will ever grab the file.
The beauty is that no spider should grab a .js file at all, so monitor your logs and if a spider grabs any .JS file then it may well be starting to get smart to reading it.
<<- does the .js file have open and close <script> tags?>>
No, those should be removed.
<<- Can I put html code into the .js file?>>
Yes, but this can cause headaches sometimes.
<<- What code is used to call the .js file?>>
<script language="JavaScript" src="../js/css.js"></script>
I recommend putting it in a robots.txt protected folder. I call it css.js so it looks like a sheep.
<<When do you suppose Google will learn to penalize an external redirect .js?>>
As late as possible! If robots and humans can't go in the folder where you keep thoses scripts everything should be fine! :)
<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript" src="file.js"></script>
The type attribute is required for the code to validate, and the language attribute is needed for older browsers.
Also, I assume that when and if SEs start dealing with external js redirects, they would have the brains NOT to penalize the kind of redirect kapow is talking about. There's no search engine persuasion going on, it's a conditional redirect that HELPS the user, and it still returns the content that the SE indexed.
I stand corrected. Now I got work on my hands...
That makes simple sense in that that way, people hiding irrelevant content behind an optimised doorway don't get a benefit, but a frameset loading script will still get the frameset page indexed properly. It is not a perfect solution, but it is the path of least damage.
