Can my "noframes" tag help me?

... because a SE cannot look in the frameset url's...

[Resulty]

I have a website i have to optimize and its a frameset. Search engines arent to happy with frame sets and they do not look in the url's that the frameset put together to show the correct website the user will see.

My question is if i can contain some sort of sitemap within the noframes tag linkin to teh same pages as the frameset, so the SE will still crawl and index them?

What are the pro's & con's?

Thanx,

C

[rainborick]

Search engines crawl frames-based websites just fine, but the structure is slightly more complicated to manage in terms of Google PageRank and in terms of dealing with links to internal webpages designed to be contained within a <frameset>. On the whole, I would recommend that you try a more conventional site structure. If your primary reason for using frames is to keep a single navigation menu or a top banner/logo, there are other methods that will give you the same functionality without the problems that you incur by using frames. Try searching on "no frames navigation" for some ideas.

That said, you can alleviate the major problem in terms of search engine ranking pretty much the way you thought of - by utilizing the <noframes> section. I recommend treating that section as if it was the main page of a site that didn't use frames. Include an appropriate <h>eadline tag, a paragraph or two of keyword-rich text, and a few plain text links to the most important internal pages on your site - including the sitemap page if you have one.

Then you need to deal with search engines linking directly to your internal pages. There are JavaScript solutions that will detect when a page is not in its proper <frameset> and will automatically re-direct the user to the <frameset> page and reload the internal page automagically. Search on "Javascript automatic reframe" and you'll get a few ideas. Good luck!

[Resulty]

Thanx!