Search Engine Hits

[simonf]

Hi

On a site I created, I use frames (banner,menu,maintext) I notice on search engine sites when they discover the page etc when search text that they go directly to that page which would then not show the menu,banner etc.

How would I stop this from happening to allow for the loading of all the frames etc.

The site in query is http://www.tricon.co.za

[djr33]

A good reason to not use frames.

You can use a robots.txt file to disallow direct access to your pages (the ones that should be in frames), and that would stop the search engines from indexing them, but it wouldn't make them do it the 'right' way instead.

Your options:
1. Live with it as is.
2. Stop search engines from indexing these pages, making your site have far fewer indexes with the search engines.
3. Redesign without frames.

[Sliight]

Couldn't he use a redirect script on load? Granted it could cause a loop...

This would be a silly amount of work... but you could create identical pages from the inside of the frames, that would be searchable, but don't point any navigation at them. Once this page loads, it would automatically redirect to the identical page, but it would load with frames. This target page would then of course need to not be indexed by search engines.

So basically you clone your entire website, and redirect the cloned site to the real site, which can't be indexed.

I know it sounds daffy, but it makes sense in my head! I swear!

[djr33]

Well, you could, but it might screw up the bot.

[simonf]

Looks like option 3 in going to be the best one.... back to the drawing board..