Google and Frames

Google description showing the no frames tag

[jdahmes]

Hey all, first time poster, long time reader.

On Monday our site was ranked #3 with the proper description information. Been in that position for a few months and been in the top 10 for a couple years. Today our site was dropped to #84 and the listing shows the text from our noframes tag. (yes... the site is in frames and yes we know this is generally bad... but...) Nothing else changed on our site so confused as to why the issue now.

Anyone know why the sudden change? Did Google change something about how they index framed sites recently?

Thanks in advance...

[Robert Charlton]

jdahmes - What was ranking before... your frameset, or the framed page?

[jdahmes]

The entire page was showing before.

Sometime within the last 24 hours it dropped from 3 to 84 and when it dropped it showed the text from the no frames tag. Withing minutes of my post yesterday the results changed again and we were back in the #3 spot with our usual description text. Now (as of 2:30am CST) we aren't showing up in the top couple hundred listings (as of 3:00pm CST we were still at #3).

[rainborick]

I keep a close eye on how the search engines deal with frames because I have two sites with sections that rely on frames and a client whose site is entirely in frames. I haven't seen any change in the rankings of my client's site in several months, and no changes in the framed sections on my own sites for the last 4 weeks. All of these sites have seen some upticks over the course of Google's most recent changes, actually.

[jdahmes]

Well as of about 10am CST we were back in the number 3 spot. The #*$! GoogleDance tool has us number 3 in all three indexes. Two days in a row now, though, we've dropped off the results in one fashion or another between the hours of 10pm and 10am... never seen anything like this before. I'll let everyone know if it happens again tomorrow, but thanks for the initial feedback.

[jdahmes]

Apparently the company name that does the GoogleDance tool isn't allowed. I wasn't saying the tool was bad... lol