All good suggestions. Have you considered JavaScript to load the proper
page in its frameset? There is a script that will detect when your
contents.html or other page is loaded without its accompanying frameset,
and reload it and other pages in the frameset properly.
I haven't tried it but I did run across one in action the other day. I wish
I had snagged it for my JS collection. Let me know if you might be
interested and I'll look it up.
Still a sure fire way to avoid the problem is to submit a search
engine-friendly page and insert a robots no follow meta tag.
Luana
At 01:47 PM 7/23/98 -0800, you wrote:
>Okay, if I make up a plain simple page called "contents.html" and on it,
>list all the pages in the site, should I list:
>
>For the "about TLC page," "about.htm" which is the unframed, middle page of
>a 3 frame page and the one with the actual "about TLC" content?
>
>Or should I list "aboutframe.htm" which is the framesets page?
>
>BTW, I'm not so much concerned with non-frames browsers being able to read
>the site as I am concerned that the search engines be able to index it.
>
>And, if I understand it correctly, my plain jane contents page should have
>a HOME link which points to my index.html page, which is the main frames
>page?
>
>Suz
>
>Brent said:
>>(3) So, you will want to have a link to some sort of "table of contents"
>>page(s) in the <noframes> section; i.e., a page that will stand on its own
>>outside a frameset, and which the engine can thus follow the rest of the
>>way in order to catalog your entire site.
>>
>>(4) However, this being done, there is the problem of users entering your
>>site "in the middle", because the search engine has catalogued your
>>index.html as having basically no content, jumping instead to all the other
>>pages referenced in your table of contents page. So index.html won't
>>likely turn up high on a list of search hits.
>>
>>(5) Therefore the "middle pages" should have a clear link to index.html, so
>>that users who jumped in part-way through can link back to the "proper"
>>framed starting page. (And the target for that link should be _top, by the
>>by.)
>
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