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I wonder if you can give any suggestions. Will a new website's search results be badly effected if frames are used to integrate external calculators or other tools into the site.
Most websites in the same industry do this and achieve page one results in google for competitive key words.
For us framing the tools would mean around 60 framed pages. All these would really contain would be the links pulling in the tools. The remainder of the site contains over one hundred pages of html text, which is useful well structured content.
Is it more likely as this is a new site that the use of frames could increase the likelihood of it being sandboxed?
If not is there a best way to optimise the pages?
I look forward to any comments or opinions.
Framed content is just harder for the spiders to get to unless sites take certain steps to see to it that the framed content is visible.
In your case, unless you care about calulators being spidered, as long as the main content of your page is spiderable and well optimized, there should be no issue, just as there's no issue with the competitive pages you mention that rank well. A bit of framed content has nothing to do, as far as I know, with anything related to sandboxing.
The pages with framed tools will rank on the merits of onpage and offpage factors, excluding the framed content.
