Index page very simple, good idea on big site?

only asks frames or no frames. big site

[MThiessen]

Hello,

My index page has been very simple for a long time. It can be considered a doorway page pretty much as it gives you the choice of "frames or no frames" to enter.

The page is very simple, and optimized very well and comes in on the top 10 in most search engines for broad one-word keywords that are relevant to my site.

Having over 300 pages though, I am wondering if this is a good thing because of how many levels the spiders must dig to index and give relevancy to all the pages.

The structure is like this:

Editors note: filenames are fake below

index.htm links -- mainPage.htm --framePage.htm

mainPage.htm links -- catagoryOne.htm catagoryTwo.htm etc etc

catagoryOne.htm links -- subcatagory.htm
catagoryTwo.htm links -- subcatagorydiff.htm

subcatagory.htm links -- 12 unique information pages
subcatagorydiff.htm links -- 144 unique information pages

This is the basic structure.

In short my question is to make the unique info pages targeted better should I remove the doorway?

BTW my doorway is PR7 in google so is much of the inside, nothing less then 6 site wide.

Mike

[Knowles]

Maybe change to door way to either the Framed site or the non-framed one and have a link allowing them to switch to the other. Which ever one is not the default put it as no spider. (I would say go with the non-framed as spiders deal with them better)

[MThiessen]

What is the reason for that? Would that make the spiders go deeper? So you think the index as a frames noframes doorway is not a good idea?

[SmallTime]

I suspect most of us here don't think frames are a good idea.

[Knowles]

Well its seems to we working well for you actually. I am not sure changing it at all would effect it positivly it may in fact effect it negativly. I just think to me its better to make the first page hit for the customer to be a real page. As far as spidering deeper it takes links to get it in there. So it may actually allow it to spider a little deeper depending on how you have your link system set up.

[victor]

Not directly relevant, but I watched my 15-year nephew websurfing a couple of months ago.

He came to a simple home page. It said "Welcome to (whatever) Site". And there were two very large buttons, one said "Frames" and the other "No Frames".

He spent the better part of a minute wavvering the mouse over one and then the other, trying to decide.

In the end, he didn't risk it. He backbuttoned out entirely.

That's the response from someone who is quite bright, a third of my age, and generally web savvy.

For some people, unneccesary choices are barriers.