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Subdirectory indexing?

         

nickitis

7:08 pm on Nov 23, 2001 (gmt 0)



Hi, we have a set of sites underneath our primary webspace - referenced by their own domain names using framed forwarding.

These sub-sites are linked to only by domain name itself, and should never be referred to as a subdirectory of our webspace. I'm worried that search engines might somehow figure this out when viewing their site with the framed forwarding... am I right to be?

Eg: framed forward says - for domain www.yourdomain.co.uk go to www.anotherdomain.com/6/index.html

Let me know if this is posted to the wrong forum! there's so many...

Thanks in Advance, Nick Payne

(edited by: NFFC at 7:44 pm (gmt) on Nov. 23, 2001)

agerhart

5:16 pm on Nov 25, 2001 (gmt 0)

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Nick,

This forum is fine, by the way.

I would assume that the search engines would not take very kindly to the methods you are using as it sounds like you you are using a redirect (forwarding), as well as frames.

Is the forwarding acutally a redirect, or is it a line of text that instructs the user to click on a link to the new page and new domain?

nickitis

5:16 pm on Nov 29, 2001 (gmt 0)



Hi, sorry for the satellite delay!

It's a framed forward, so the master html doc has nothing but a full-page frame leading to the desired content. Take a look if you like, it's all at [url snipped] - take out the spaces (I don't want the engines to show my questions here!) and you can see the sub-sites on the "showcase 1" page. See the source for the sub-sites and you'll see the redirect.

Thanks for your reply, it's really appreciated!

(edited by: agerhart at 5:21 pm (gmt) on Nov. 29, 2001)

nickitis

12:32 pm on Nov 30, 2001 (gmt 0)



Here's the main frame they get when someone goes to a domain which points to a subdirectory of our webspace. There is a link to click but it's not shown as the frame does the trick. All sites are submitted as their domain name, never as eg ourmaindomain.com/6/index.html. But I'm concerned they may get indexed as such (which would be a disaster!)

Many TIA, Nick

<html>
<head>
<META NAME="robots" CONTENT="NOINDEX,FOLLOW">
</head>
<frameset rows="99%,1" border="0">
<frame name="site" src="http://www.ourmaindomain.com/6/index.html">
<frame name="invisible" noresize>
<noframes>
<body>
<p align="center">
<a href="http://www.ourmaindomain.com/6/index.html">Click here to continue</a>
</p>
</body>
</noframes>
</frameset>
</html>