Kidson Talks | The E-commerce Chemist

Walking around the rag market in Birmingham this weekend, I spotted a familiar face on one of the stalls. Internet trading has taken her out of her shop and studio (she make alternative fashion) and she is now back on the market where she started 10 years ago. She has decided to go internet ready as her last attempts at a website failed. I suggested Shopify which would be a very simple system to use and design, but she has already brought a template which uses a frame to hold the site it seems. I do wish I had seen her earlier as I would have advised against it.

This is what Google says about frames:

Your page uses frames. Google supports frames to the extent that it can. Frames tend to cause problems with search engines, bookmarks, emailing links and so on, because frames don’t fit the conceptual model of the web (every page corresponds to a single URL). If a user’s query matches the site as a whole, Google returns the frame set. If a user’s query matches an individual page on the site, Google returns that page. That individual page is not displayed in a frame — because there may be no frame set corresponding to that page.

This site : http://www.webmarketingplus.co.uk/ has some useful information about optimsation of a site with frames, but looking at the source code of her website, all you see the the frame. Sticking a load of keywords in that frame (providing I can get access to that section) won’t do any good and probably harm her website ranking. It is going to be a tough one cracking a very template based system ( like cracking the Channeladvisor and Marketworks storefronts I imagine, and I can bet they have more flexibility and options) but I will chart my progress as always!

This ones open for comments in case any one has any bright ideas on SEO for frames!