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Using 100% frames to redirect

Is this legal?

         

salmo

7:16 pm on Mar 31, 2003 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Here's the deal. I have my main domain www.somedomain.com and have registered 3 additional domains that I may use in the future but for now I want them to point to my main site, all that I will be using these domains for is e-mail.

I would set this up so that thee the main domain is in a frame, set at 100% of the browser window. Since I don't want these sites to be indexed at this stage I would include a robots.txt file that would exclude all spiders, thus:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

What I need to know is whether this would be safe, my site is well ranked and has a pagerank of 6 which I have worked very hard to achieve with completely legitimate SEO. No tricks, no spam, the site is perfectly clean.

rcjordan

7:41 pm on Mar 31, 2003 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



I've been doing it for years without problem. You should, however, be careful not to code the link to the "shell" domains anywhere. I also put a comment in the noframes tag explaining the purpose of the domain and pointing to the robots.txt file to help any editor that might happen by the source code.

salmo

6:35 am on Apr 1, 2003 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Thanks, I'm not sure that I understand what you mean by "be careful not to code the link to the "shell" domains anywhere". I agree that putting an explanation in the no farmes is a good idea.