How to optimize a framed dynamic site?

Only the homepage is cached, no other pages. What should we do?

[pvdm]

Hello,

We are quite new to SEO although a few months reading on this forum is an intensive hands on training :-)

A customer asks us if we can help: he has an e-commerce site of average size, but .ASP dynamic and framed. :-(

We looked in Google, and no pages are indexed nor in cache, except the homepage. We know that some internal pages are linked to by some other sites, but we can't find any backlinks in the Google toolbar on those pages.

What can we do to get those pages in Google? The site is hosted on a IIS server.

It looks to us like a difficult first task. Before committing, we would like to know if we are up to the task.

Thank you for your help!

[korkus2000]

What is the PR of the homepage? Are all pages handled with a query string?

this my give you some information
[webmasterworld.com...]

[Macguru]

Is the NOFRAME empty with no links to other pages?

[pvdm]

The PR of the homepage is 5, all other pages have somewhere the ? query in the URL.

[pvdm]

Hello Mac Guru,

no 'noframes' tag anywhere to see... :-(

[Macguru]

Hi pvdm,

This tag helps a lot. Add it to the framesets. Fill it with about 5 k of content and links to other pages in site.

[pvdm]

Hi Macguru,

Thank you for your advice. I read about the noframes tag. But:

1. Where should I insert it: one in the navigation frame AND one in the content frame. Both different of course. Or only in the content frame?
2. Should I do this for each dynamically assembled page? That could be a lot of pages! I looks like it would be easier to rebuild a new site from scratch :-)

TIA!

[Macguru]

The noframes tags never go in any of the framed pages. They go in framesets. A frameset is a page calling both your navigation and content page to match together.

You can read more about it here :

[w3.org...]

Specifically :

[w3.org...]

[Brett_Tabke]

I'd first figure out how to hide the dynamic portion of any url. Then just allow the spiders to index the targets of pages. You can use a javascript to check location and reset your frame for users if you must.

[edited by: Brett_Tabke at 2:14 pm (utc) on July 2, 2002]

[pvdm]

Thank you Mac and Brett,

This looks too complicated for me. My knowledge of programming is quite basic. I think it's better I pass on this job.