I've been framed...

[BrightSparke]

January 27th, '06

Dear All:

My website designer decided (without telling me) to use Frames to build our site.

I have since learned that Frames are very search engine "unfriendly".

I generally like the appearance of the site and cannot afford to re-engineer without Frames, so am trying to find out what's the best SEO I can do with what I have.

Someone told me the next best thing was (and I don't know how) to include the entire copy of the page in a statement outside the Frames themselves - I guess as a comment of some kind...

Ideas appreciated.

Peter

 

[crus]

Hi Peter,

I agree the site is clean looking.
The frames are worth getting rid off.
There are many web guys on here, it should not cost a lot to move this to a a CSS based layout as this is a 'classic' layout to replicate.

D

 

[DuaneJackson]

You need to get someone to change your pages to use "server side includes" instead of frames. The look will stay the same.

How many pages do you have?

 

[Tin]

Hi Peter

I agree with Crus, if you're wanting an easier time with rankings you need to get it out of frames preferably into css but tables will also work for you as well as server includes. Curious as to why are you using https as opposed to just http?
Site is nice looking and easy to navigate but you've some odd things going on which will impede your chances of good rankings like...
Your left navbar on the home page has 6 links on it but a lot of other pages only have 3 links within that same navbar, a consistent linking structure would help. Use of images in places where it would be ideal for text is another one.
Whatever you do, don't put comment tags in the code as was suggested to you.
You've got some work to do but if you want a little freebie seo advice bang a PM over to me.

Cheers

Ray