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First, thanks to everyone involved with WW for such a great resource and to everyone who has contributed to the great content here! I have been lurking for a while, but this is my first post.
My question concerns frames and PR. I am not hung up on PR, but would like to understand how it is working on a site I maintain that uses frames. I did not create the site and I understand the problems associated with using them, but this is what I have to work with.
The site is a basic frameset with 2 frames; a navigation frame on the left and the main frame for content. All pages that load in the main frame contain java code to reload the page into the correct frameset. All my external links are to mydomain.com and the PR looks like this:
mydomain.com - (PR4)
default.asp – frameset (PR4)
menu.asp – loads in navigation frame (PR4)
main.asp – loads in main frame as home page (PR3)
Where is the PR for mydomain.com coming from? The frameset (default.asp), the nav frame (menu.asp), or the main frame (main.asp)? …and how should I link back to the home page from sub pages? “main.asp”, “default.asp” or “/”?
Thanks!
Patrick
that PR comews from incoming links and all links pointing to "/" within the site. Furthermore, I hope you have a good <NOFRAMES> section where you provide a good text version of your sites main premise with links to the framed parts. This is what google picks up. Although, if oyu have no <noframes> section and google still gives high PR to your nav pages It seems like it's following frames addresses too these days.
Where is the PR for mydomain.com coming from?
This is the PR coming from all links to mydomain.com. You can verify if Google indentifies default.asp and mydomain.com as the same page by using the link command. If link:mydomain.com is showing the same backlinks as link:mydomain.com/default.asp than Google knows that this is the same page and it doesn't matter if you link to default.asp or mydomain.com. If different backlinks are shown than PR is splitted between these 'two' pages. In this case I would replace links to default.asp by / or mydomain.com.
From the frameset PR is spreaded over the frames. A <Frame> inside a frameset is treated in the same way as a <a> link on a normal page.
