Background:
This site was the second I set up on the inernet. As you can see it was based on frames. I liked the frame technology fairly good, but then I started reading books and forums posts and very soon I discovered that using frame based sites was not good for
SEO purposes. Frames or more preciesly a framset or set of framesets, would confuse the SE Bots. A framset is in a sense a collection of pages within a page as you see here:
- Domain URL or the index page.
Code:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/frameset.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Kjell Bleivik, CV and some poems etc. in Norwegian only</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>
<frameset rows="*" cols="140,*" frameborder="NO" border="0" framespacing="0">
<frame src="leftmenu.html" name="leftFrame" scrolling="NO" noresize>
<frame src="main.html" name="mainFrame">
</frameset>
<noframes><body>
</body></noframes>
</html>
- The main page or what you may think of as the body of an ordinary page.
- The left menu page / frame
Questions:
Now in web 2.0 with
AJAX and other technologies based on iFrames, zero frames and and the XMLHttpRequestobject:
- Is the same argument against using frame based sites still valid?
- How advanced are the SE Bots at indexing framed sites?