The Refresh Rhetoric

Are there CLEAR rules about refreshing?

[Elora]

Aloha!

I am new to the boards so please forgive me if this has been covered before - my search of the archives was more confusing than enlightening.

My site is listed on Google but the site is in an IFRAME and the results when clicked come up without the IFRAME.

Does Google allow any refreshes? I have heard yes, no, never and maybe. What do people who use more than one frame do? I have read backwards and forwards the Guidelines page from Google but it says sneaky, and cloaking - does the bot differentiate from overt and clear? (And why do I suddenly have a vision of Star Trek cloaking device in the server room!)

Please let me know if you have any advice!

[Brett_Tabke]

First, welcome to the boards (note, we try to avoid listing specific sites and searches for everyones self preservation and sanity ;-)

Depends more on how you are doing the iframe. I don't see how putting an entire site in an iframe would really matter. G would simply index the target content. And yes, meta refreshed pages get special consideration and generally buried in G if listed at all. Normally, get looks at the meta refresh and indexes the target page, not the refresh page. If the target page is the same as the refresh page, then I've noticed those pages end up way down the rankings lists.