rpgsearcherz 5 Report post Posted August 18, 2008 Hey all, I'm curious...I've been doing a lot of reading up on SEO and all and noticed my site is not "indexed" by any search engines. Could this be due to the frames on my site?At the moment my site's address is http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ but I plan to move to an actual domain once it's close to being finished.Being on an actual domain should boost my chances of getting credit for SEO, right?And also, the main question here is...Can you check that out and let me know if you think it would be okay for indexing? It is split into 4 frames. One banner, one navbar, one main area, one footer. Should I set up a static starting page that just has a picture with something like "Click here to enter"?I'm really not sure how all of this works but I'm wanting to do my best to crawl up the ranks of google page rankings!Thanks in advance.(Note that the page is still in very early stages, so ignore the content itself, most of it is made up just to kind of show my guild what it will be looking like in the future) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
minimcmonkey 0 Report post Posted August 18, 2008 First of all, a searchbot for a search engine searches individual HTML pages, so it will index them, but, visitors could end up with just one of the frames pages. You should read up on each search engines Bots, and make sure you only allow it to index you frameset files. You should be able to do this by placing a small text file in each folder, although i cant say hw as each Bot works slightly differently.Secondly, i would strongly suggest you DO NOT use a frameset. They are not very good at being compatible with browsers.Also, a small window will not display them right.Some visitors will also find a framed layout confusing (obviously, you can decide this based upon your target audience)I would suggest you use DIVs and have a stylesheet to control their position.So instead of having frames, have DIVs, they loom beter, work beter, and work with nearly all browsers.Read up on CSS if your not sure about how to do this. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rpgsearcherz 5 Report post Posted August 19, 2008 I'll definitely read up on that. In terms of why I am using frames instead of just having each page it's own, is mostly due to the issue of bandwidth usage. At the moment my site is using around 600 mb's a month due to forums and if I have the entire web page reload everytime they change pages it will drastically boost up that amount.Would it be possible to use CSS to have things only load in one window? That is pretty much my sole reason of using frames in the first place - I want the only page that ever changes to be the actual data - as reloading the footer, header, and navigation bar is useless. The only way I could think of doing that though was via frames, as it keeps each page separate. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jlhaslip 4 Report post Posted August 19, 2008 Take the time to learn some php to emulate the frames behaviour for your site. Or possibly Ajax.Use a CSS file to avoid the needless downloading of the stylesheet info on each refresh.Host your images on a free site like Imagefilez to avoid using your own bandwidth. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rpgsearcherz 5 Report post Posted August 19, 2008 I found a way that I can possibly take care of all of my issues, and even got the layout of my pages up and everything. My issue now is that I am having a very, very hard time getting the footer to stay on the bottom of the page. I have to manually keep dragging it to the bottom of every page that I make. Does anyone happen to know what I am doing wrong? Included is the code for the entire page. Thanks. <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/; <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml/ <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>Welcome to TakeOver!</title> <style type="text/css"> <!-- #apDiv1 { position:absolute; left:10px; top:230px; width:100%; height:174px; z-index:1; } #apDiv2 { position:absolute; left:9px; top:561px; width:100%; height:30px; z-index:2; } #apDiv3 { position:absolute; left:10px; top:137px; width:100%; height:49px; z-index:3; } #apDiv4 { position:absolute; left:10px; top:180px; width:100%; height:47px; z-index:4; } #apDiv5 { position:absolute; left:9px; top:232px; width:100%; height:115px; z-index:5; } body,td,th { color: #00FFFF; } body { background-color: #000000; } --> </style> </head> <body> <div id="apDiv2"> <div align="center">2008 TakeOver</div> </div> <div id="apDiv3"> <div align="center"><a href="test.html" target="apDiv4"><img src="Pictures/navbar/DonationsBefore.jpg" width="140" height="42" /></a><img src="Pictures/navbar/ForumsBefore.jpg" width="140" height="42" /><img src="Pictures/navbar/HomeBefore.jpg" width="140" height="42" /><img src="Pictures/navbar/Lineage2Before.jpg" width="140" height="42" /><img src="Pictures/navbar/LinksBefore.jpg" width="140" height="42" /><img src="Pictures/navbar/VentriloBefore.jpg" width="140" height="42" /><img src="Pictures/navbar/WarhammerBefore.jpg" width="140" height="42" /></div> </div> <div id="apDiv4"> <div align="center"><img src="Pictures/navbar/l2navbar/l2applyBefore.jpg" width="140" height="42" /><img src="Pictures/navbar/l2navbar/l2eventsBefore.jpg" width="140" height="42" /><img src="Pictures/navbar/l2navbar/l2generalBefore.jpg" width="140" height="42" /><img src="Pictures/navbar/l2navbar/l2membersBefore.jpg" width="140" height="42" /><img src="Pictures/navbar/l2navbar/l2picturesBefore.jpg" width="140" height="42" /><img src="Pictures/navbar/l2navbar/l2VideosBefore.jpg" width="140" height="42" /></div> </div> <div id="apDiv5"> <p>Welcome to tko's new site</p> <p>�</p> <p>hope you enjoy your stay</p> <p>�</p> <p>�</p> <p>well add more</p> <p>�</p> <p>alter</p> </div> <div class="footer" id="foot"><img src="Pictures/tkobannergq32.JPG" width="100%" height="116" /></div> <p>�</p> </body> </html> Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
