Search Engines And Frames
September 17th, 2008 by Nick
Using frames in the development of a website has long been considered a hindrance to effective Search Engine Optimisation (SEO). While they offer a genuine method of design, spiders and search engine bots can struggle to index the content that is bound within the frame on a page making their use less than desirable if you want to take full advantage of organic search engine traffic.
Search engines use spiders and bots (essentially pieces of indexing software) in order to first find your website and then to determine the keywords it uses and rank a page for specific search results. Any design technique that prevents the spiders from being able to fully crawl a web page is therefore less than desirable from a search engine optimisation point of view.
While the major search engines constantly improve the indexing techniques they use, there are still some problems reported when trying to access frame content. If you already have a website design that utilises frames then there are certain techniques that can avoid the need to rebuild or redevelop a website and ensure that search engine optimisation is still a viable marketing technique.
Accessibility is a major issue in web development. Not only should you ensure that spiders and bots can access all of the content on a page, but it's important to remember that not all browsers and therefore not all visitors will be able to view content that is bound within a frame. While workarounds do exist they are not the ideal solution for search engine optimisation.
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Web page can be designed in fixed or liquid layout and also web designer can design a page by using both techniques known as semi liquid layout which is more comfortable for most of browser window whether small or large.
Both techniques of web design, fixed or liquid layout have advantage and disadvantage and it depends on the size of page that is used for design.
Liquid layout design is more difficult for a web designer to control the content of the page. If you will open liquid layout page in small window the text and images become very small and become very difficult to understand but in this design scroll bar is not created and visitor can look all sites at a time.
Fixed layout design is simple than layout design and also easy for designer to manage the code but when we open this type of page on small size browser window, scroll bar creates on your browser and so visitor can’t look all pages in one time so they can’t enjoy your site.
To overcome this conflict please use both types of layout known as semi layout, according to your page content. Where you use more text in your page please use fixed layout design whereas used liquid layout if you use rest of the content in your site. It will be better for all of us.