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It is quite clear that the frame-attributes "noresize" and "noscrolling" provide an ideal basis to hide content outside the screen, and it is very likely the major search engines have found ways to cope with this. But what then are the major recommendations for not trapping into these algorithms?
To be precise: On my site I have three levels of embedded frames: First I split the screen into a top section, which contains my address and telephone number on every page, which my customers have found quite convenient. Then I split the bottom section into a left area containing the major links and navigation area. The right frame contains the content of each page.
Now on my start page I intended to split this section again: The top there should contain some general information, and the bottom a scrollable introductory sitemap, because as I mentioned elsewhere I have structured my whole site in such a manner that all 160 pages might function as a bookmarkable startpage, and I want to get all these indexed by this sitemap.
Given this structure, a browser is supposed to show two scrollbars right hand side outside fullscreen-mode: One for the major frameset, and one for the bottom-right frameset.
But as a matter of fact, it doesn't (at least IE5). Even if I put all attributes to "yes" it only shows scrollbars for the inner frameset, which means that on my 15 inch monitor the sitemap cannot be seen at all and there is no way to get into it except buying a new monitor.
I haven't tried netscape nor mozilla yet and the sitemap does show up on the 17 inch monitor, but in terms of not-hidden content and search engine otimization I'd like to be on the safe site. So
- what is generally recommended by google in case one uses frames?
- is a frame valued similar to a link which would mean my sitemap is four links away from the index-page?
Thank you very much
Oliver
the indexpage of my site shows a PR4, the top,navigation and body frames show a PR3.
The pages to which i link from the navigation frame show a PR2.
So, it looks as if all frames that show up in the index page are 1 link away from thatindex page.
I think that having an non-framed indexpage with navigation on it, would give me a PR3 instead of a PR2 for the underlying pages.
Probably a PR3 or PR2 won't make much of a difference coz after all, content is more important than PR. However, when it comes to deep-crawling, i notice that the lower the PR, the fewer pages get indexed.
I'm considering to get rid of frames however, i like it when the logo and company name always appear on top, same for the navigation buttons and so.
It would be very welcome if anyone could give tips to assure that panes in the frameset have the same PR as the pages holding the frameset.
