stuck with frames... what to do?

How do I get Y! to follow src= in frame-set?

[chinkchink]

I am stuck with a site that uses frames.... too many higher-ups are in love with it, and i am looking at (at least) another year until I can hope to take the site out of the frame-set... [believe me, I am working on it :( ]

Since Y! launched its own engine, i see all indexed URLs from my company site showing up on Y! with the SAME title and SAME cache!
All these content are from the sitemap of our site!
And naturally, our result position drop from within top 10 to 50+ for all our KW ever since....

The site map is one of the pages we link to within the <noframe> tag site-wide and is one of the few pages on our site that lives outside of the frame-set structure.... (Y! didn't index any of these, however...)

we have no problem getting google to index and cache our actual content pages

anyone have any advice for me as to what to do before I get the OK to pull the site out of the frames?

please help....

[Pikin_It_Up]

I have no Idea, but I'd get rid of the frames ASAP.

They are notorious for making it difficult for spiders to crawl.

Explain to whoever, that you can make the site look the same but make it easier to crawl...

Use css to give div overflows a scroll function. It might take some convincing but will be worth it in the long run

[PCInk]

Desining a one page example of a non-framed site may help (make it look identical but obviously all scrolling will be done together instead of panes).

For current time use <noframes>. The spider will either follow the <frames> section or the <noframes> section, dependant on the spider. In the <frames> section, you will have <frame src=...> a number of times. In the <noframes> section, you will need to link to the same pages as the <frame src=...> list. A spider should follow either.

Then, when listed in the search engines, show your higher staff how the page becomes 'orphaned' when arriving from a search engine. The frames may be lost shortly after that!