SEO 101 - 8 of 13 common SEO Roadblocks (Frames)

Frames

Frames are a method of displaying multiple web pages simultaneously on your browser. In general they were used to isolate the headers and footers from the main content.

A typical setup might be:

• A container page – sets up the frame set, including masthead, left-hand menu, main content, and footer frames

• A masthead page

• A left-hand menu page

• Many multiple main content pages

• A footer page

The problem for search engine spiders is that they cannot assemble the component pages and index them as one. If they index the main content page, there is no way for the spider to deduce which of the other pages should be indexed to complete the page. In addition, if the visitor lands on the internal main content page, there is no masthead, no footers, and no menu system. There are JavaScript workarounds for this issue but, in general, avoid frames.

Thanks to SEMPO institute for this information.

Comments

[seo service]

I never knew that search engine spiders is that they cannot assemble the component pages and index them as one. This is big problem to us using seo. Thanks for the information about Frames.

[seo outsourcing]

Thanks for making that clear. Nice take on "compartmentalizing" your site.

[seo hosting]

Spiders crawl each page and looks for canonical tags. These pages that have been indexed with canonical gains the link juice from pages that redirects to it.