13 September 2011
The general opinion is that SEO and frames don't mix well.
Enter 'SEO and use of frames' in to Yahoo and you will come across a lot of relevant articles, most of which support this view.
Best wishes
Richard
White Rabbit Designs

13 September 2011
A frames page is essentially pulling in multiple documents to create a page and it is this which can make it difficult for a search engine to make sense of your site. Google gives some advice (and links to more information here... http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=34445). Few web designers now would recommend going down the frames route because there is usually a much better way of achieving a result that doesn't complicate the information flow. Why make it difficult for a search engine to spider your site? Recommend avoid.


Thank you



Jonathan
CMS web design with SEO finnesse

13 September 2011
Hi JR,

Probably not what you want to hear but if your site has been built using frames then you can at best do some workarounds which will place your SEO at a disadvantage from the start, best solution is to get a new site built without frames.

We provide both SEO services and website / ecommerce development so if you would like to discuss anything we can help with feel free to get in touch.

(Find us on Google for phrases such as ecommerce development out of 57 million listings)

Graham Lyons
graham@evolution-online.co.uk
www.evolution-websites.co.uk
www.evolution-seo.co.uk
0131 541 2161

13 September 2011
JR

I concur with my colleagues, frames are bad for SEO and you are making your life difficult for changing and updating your site's information in the future.

You should also be aware that SEO performance is dependent on many factors - reciprocal and internal links, good tags and descriptions, continual development of content amongst other factors are all crucial to the site's performance.

Happy to show you how all that works and put you back in control of your site. Drop me a line or use the contact form on our site

Kind regards

Mike

14 September 2011
I'm afraid the best advice is to undergo a complete redesign and to avoid at all costs spending any money on this website.

Frames don't work for search engines at all and I'd guess that your website is also constructed using tables too making things even worse.

A complete redesign and development should leave you with a modern standards compliant website that not only reflects your company in a good light but also allows you to update it's content yourself whenever you need to.

Peter Farrell
DoodleIT Ltd

14 September 2011
Hi there JR.

Here at FirstFound, we specialise in SEO so we can give you a categorical answer here.

Search engines have stopped looking at frameset content.

It used to be acceptable to reproduce your content in a frameset, especially if you had an otherwise invisible flash website, but nowadays that's getting no traction whatsoever on Google, Yahoo and Bing.

If you want to talk about building a website outside of a frameset, give us a call on 0161 909 3400.

26 September 2011
Only use a Frame set if you absolutely have to deliver the content from an external source.

As far as SEO is concerned do not use Frame sets as all the content and file will not be crawled by the Google bot and thus will not appear in the SERPs (search engine result pages).

If you do use them make sure you NOINDEX the page, so this does not hold the rest of your site back.

28 September 2011
Generally yes, but by how much and with which search engines is hard to say.
There are ways of getting the same effect without using frames.

Contact us for more details.

Thanks

19 October 2011
It is true and a good designer / developer knows that frames and web design outside of a internal company site do not go together. Search engines have problems indexing framed pages and having a framed page goes outside of one of the first fundamentals of web design, one page = page URL. Google itself has stated that it can crawl a framed page, but has a hard time categorizing it and indexing it for you.

Also, keep in mind that blind or impaired visitors may not be able to see your site properly dues to their screen reader not being able to pick up frames.

So, in all, frames are bad design for an external web page.

20 October 2011
Imagine this:

Hi, here's my website content and it's so interesting I hope you'll read it too...

Then you pop this into a frame:

*****
Hi, here's my website content and it's so interesting I hope you'll read it too...
*****

Hang on, now there are 2 copies of IDENTICAL content out there on the web. Which does Google index...?

The ONLY time we use IFRAMES now is when we are developing a FanGate for Facebook and we want to pull publicly hidden but editable content accross from the customer's website.

25 October 2011
We provide both Website / E commerce development and SEO. we can support you further. Feel free to get in touch.

Search engines are not working with frameset content.

Google gives some useful information visit : http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=34445

Best wishes
Moorthy

www.rtlxgroups.com

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