Frames

March 21, 2005 Comments

Robert Clough

Robert Clough

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Definition: A coding style that is used to combine multiple HTML documents into a single web page. Frames are often used to allow certain areas of a web site to remain in place (i.e. navigation, header graphic) while other areas of the site are scrollable.

Framed web sites are more difficult to optimize for high search engine rankings because most spiders are unable to read and index the content within a < FRAMESET > tag. Sites that are designed using frames need to place optimized content in the < NOFRAMES > in order to provide the search engine spiders with something to index.





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