Homepage indexed in a frameset from a third site. Why?

Google and frames

[cleal]

We are currently seeing our homepage (and some other pages) indexed in Google inside a frameset from a different website. The URLs look something like this:

http://www.example.com/getpage.asp?pag=http://www.oursite.com

Of course, these results are supplemental, but still can be found when looking for specific pieces of text present in our homepage. I have seen tons of other sites using a similar technique, and these pages are not indexed. So, my question would be: does anyone know how does Google decide when to index a frameset? And why can the frameset be retrieved with the text that is present only on our site?

Thanks in advance for your help.

[stinkfoot]

Dude,

Report the site as spamming. What it is doing is cacheing your information without your authority. I had several website that had this done to them and in all honesty I dont think it was by accident. I have not taken the offenders to court but strong word were exchanged and the information was removed.

They then tried to fix the problem by setting a 302 from all of thier pages to my sites. Well .. come on ... if they know how to do that then they had full knowledge of what they were doing with the cache. More strong words were exchanged and the 302 were then put to redirect to thier own homepage as I didnt want anything to do with these idiots at all.

Find out who owns the site ... then find out who manages the server .. use strong but not offensive language ... report them to google for spamming. Include as much detail about your site and them stealing it as you can. Dont tell them you have done so they dont deserve anything but banning imo.

Good luck matey.

[jomaxx]

I don't think it's the frames that's causing it. It's possible the URL comes up simply because your site name is in the URL itself.

Or alternatively the site could be proxying your site rather than framing it. I've seen that a couple of times with my website. In this case you can look at where the request is comping from in your logs and bar that IP address.

[cleal]

Thanks for your help.

Jomaxx, the framing site appears in the results when looking for a specific text string that is present in our homepage only. I have looked at the code on that site and it seems clean (uses a frameset and on the lower frame loads our homepage). The words I am looking for are nowhere in the page source.

To be honest, I don't think they mean bad. We use a similar technique in some parts of our site (a top frame to allow users to return to our site), but those frameset pages are never indexed. Anyone seen something similar?