AboutJohn Martin Expertise I am able to answer any web design related questions including but not limited to html, dhtml, xml, wml, css, php, flash, swf and WAP. I have computers and electronics experience dating before the Military where I served as a tactical telecommunication com center operator in Military Intelligence during Desert Storm (and Desert Shield). I have a total of 22 consecutive years of computer experience (since age 14) and also teach computer classes locally. I also know little known secrets to making money online and SEO.
Experience 22 years of consecutive computer related jobs, hobbies and Military operations.
Education/Credentials Personal experience, US Military Intelligence experience, Schooling and Signal Corp. Training as well.
Awards and Honors Army accommodation medal and a two week advancement in A.I.T. training due to already existent computer knowledge at the time.
Expert: John Martin Date: 6/18/2008 Subject: frames used in HTML: how to avoid
Question QUESTION: In many publications you find that the use of frames is negative factor for websites. (in respect to google searches and rankings). But I never read an alternative to when I click on a link left of the page 2 or more area's on that page (without opening a new window) are changed.
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ANSWER: Actually I'm not sure what you are asking because the second sentence didn't make much sense to me. Can you please rephrase this somehow?
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QUESTION: I meant : If you want to change several informations in one page when you click on a link in the page, you have to use frames. But they (publications) say that in respect to Google ranking of your site, frames are very bad. But I never read an other solution to do what frames can do namely : changing several area's in a page with one click. Perhaps you know a method?
But let me include something here... The reason that the frames are bad for SEO and ranking is because the frame and iframe content does not appear in your source code (only the iframe code does)... and if your frame content is indexed separately in the search engines then they will list separately... meaning that if someone clicked on the link in Google, it will only open the page that goes in the frame instead of opening the entire website. Also... the relevant content that goes with those links will not appear in succession when search engines are crawling the site. This will make the search engines think that you have links that are not relevant to the page content and will give you a low ranking.
The way that you are using an iframe is unnecessary anyway because you are loading an entire page upon clicking the link anyway. Iframes are best use when links cause only the content to open in just that frame without reloading an entire page first.
