Forum Moderators: phranque
I recently had about.com, (big enough outfit that I hope the mod doesn't mind the specific), link to 5 different pages on my site in a travel article. At first I thought, "cool... 5 links". I've realized now that if you click on any of the links, it takes you to my pages inside one of their frames. If you click on an internal link, it takes you to the page inside one of their frames. It almost feels like they've hijacked my site.
I'm of two minds on this:
1/ it's a copyright issue... they're reproducing my site on their domain. Also, I don't imagine I'll get extra PR from the backlinks because of the way it's set up.
2/ every one of the pages has a contact email href="mailto:" so it might bring in productive contacts.
Has anyone else encountered this situation? Can they really get away with scooping people's websites like that? Should I just hope for good emails, from interested parties, and forget about it?
(I'm still above them in the Google SERP's for the important keywords... if I weren't, I'd really be p*ssed.)
Of course they might not link to you then but to a competitor instead...
SN
I didn't know about the java script frame-breaker... good to know it exists.
Martinibuster, nice to hear the links accomplish something. Looking at the URL that showed when you clicked through their site, I assumed it wouldn't lend anything to the PR of my own domain... that was something that bothered me about the set-up. If Google will see those as backlinks, I feel better about it. With that in mind, I guess I'll just be glad I got the links and forget about the way my site looks squashed into their frames. On the keywords I'm after, my site is on top anyway...
