Sometime around 2/9/09 (at 13:34 -0400) Peter Walsh said:
You need to add a NOFRAMES Tag into your page, and inside of the
NOFRAMES Tag you need to try to include your description and as many
of your keywords as possible.
This is a slightly disingenuous stagement for that organisation to
make. There IS a noframes tag in any frameset that you make in
Freeway, although it is true that there will be no content put in
there unless you go and add it yourself.
Doing this is simple, but first it is worth checking off a couple of
things: the big search engines pay little to no direct attention to
descriptions and keywords as those are so easy to spoof. Also, frames
in general are simply not search engine-friendly, as search results
can only link to the frame content pages rather than the complete
frameset structures.
Okay, the good news is that it is very easy to edit the noframes
data in Freeway and to achieve rather more than you were advised.
In Freeway, click your frameset page and then look at the tabs that
run along the top of the document window just below the button bar.
You should see the following items:
Master, Noframes, Frameset, Preview, Link Map
Click the Noframes tab and you’ll see a blank page. This is what’s
shown for the ‘noframes’ content. As well as adding the description
and keywords meta tags (go to Page > Meta Tags and add new items
there) you can build a complete layout, mirroring the frameset
content (or not) so that your noframes page has actual content.
The results will be built into the complete frameset page code.
Frames-capable browsers will see the frame-based layout, and all
others will see the regular single-page content that’s offered as the
alternative.
It means more work for you of course, but THIS will help your
frameset pages do better in search engines.
Although please do consider rethinking your design to avoid the need
for frames in the first place; they will always have issues with
search engines even with this process, and they also pose issues for
printing, bookmarking, and accessibility.
k
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