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Googlebot spidering framesets?

So does googlebot spider framesets or not?

         

keeper

1:17 am on Sep 13, 2002 (gmt 0)

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Just noticed a framed site whose pages have been indexed by Google - without placing links in the <noframes> tag.
I didn't think googlebot followed frames?

Thoughts?

Marcia

1:19 am on Sep 13, 2002 (gmt 0)

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Are there any links between the internal pages of the site?

keeper

1:29 am on Sep 13, 2002 (gmt 0)

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There is no consistent navigation on the content pages, but there is some crosslinking throughout the copy.

I just performed a backwards link check on the home content page and google has the frameset down as a link to it (even though there is there is no "a href" links to it - just a frameset)

keeper

3:37 am on Sep 20, 2002 (gmt 0)

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I've seen this over a variety of websites now - which kinda lends support to the idea that google does indeed spider framesets - Shoot holes in this theory at will ;)

ciml

5:19 pm on Sep 20, 2002 (gmt 0)

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I agree kreeper. In my tests, Google follows frame src happily. It's the <A href...>s in the noframes that seem not always to get credit.