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I need to do SEO for this site, I am thinking as following, but I am not sure whether it is legal according to Google or not.
I will have some frameset pages. each with different content on <noframe> tag. However, since the site is in one .swf file, all those frameset will be redirected to our homepage.
For example.
HomeSet.html
Page1Set.html
Page2Set.html
Page3Set.html
From home page, I have links in <noframe> tag to those keyword/content pages, all those frameset pages are redirected to our home page.
Is this something workable? and don't give me any problem with Google?
I posted this question in Supporter forum before with no answer, so I post this question here.
I'd just hate to see you get no feedback a second time round after having already posted in the supporters' forum so I'll chip in my 2 cents here.
First of all I wouldn't classify anything as "illegal" as you can do what you please with your web pages, though Google might not like it.
Having content in your frameset pages would be the best thing to do, NOT in your <noframes> tag.
If you want to use the <no frame> to get your content indexed then use the <noframes> tag of your homepage (or the mother page that calls up the frames) as THAT is what will be looked at by Google.
I wouldn't bother with links from your home page to the frames pages since they are already linked to in the frameset command by the very nature of frames. Just create a normal frameset with content in your <noframes> tag on the main page.
As for redirecting from the frame pages there should be no problem with that at all. The reason you would want to do that is in case they get indexed by search engines which is exactly what you want, but since you have no content in them they will not produce results. Remember it is the <noframes> tag on the main page which is important here. In any case if you do redirects from the frame pages do them with javascript and not "meta refresh" to be safe. I prefer to place the scripts in external files and call them up.
That's a moving target. But, why not try a few searches and look at the code of the pages that are produced as results? That will tell you what Google likes today....tomorrow is anyone's guess ;)
Back in 2002 Google loved the <noframes> section. Today it doesn't like as much, but right now it will still work to a degree.
