Is frames a hindrance for search engines, Seo tip feb 20 2005

Search engines have difficulty indexing framed sites, We seo people recommend not to build framed sites, Frames can help navigation of large sites but they are not search engine friendly, You can use frames to load a third party sites as well as any page inside your site, This is one reason search engines stay away from indexing contents inside a frame,

Those contents may not necessarily be from your site it can come from any site,

Say suppose your site is built in frames and you don't want to rebuilt them, best way to get some content crawled is to add the contents in a noframes tag,

these tags helps the search engine to identify frames and index content inside the no frames tag,



If you want best search engine ranking avoid frames totally and design sites which render proper html to the browser, Whether it is a dynamic site or static site proper rendering of html matters, Search engine crawlers are just simple browsers like netscape or firefox,

If you have a framed site we at search engine genie will help remove it and optimize it for better search engine rankings, Contact us if you want to get rid of your site from frames,

SEO Blog Team,