One of the ways to build a website is to use the frame idea like this .
While the site looks really great and seems high tech, if you look at the title in the url bar it stays the same no matter what page you are on. That is frames. I may not be 100% sure on this one, but I think the idea of frames doesn’t work with search engines and search engine optimization. What a search engine looks for is content and the file name, title, description of the page. With frames you don’t generate different pages so you don’t get this opportunity to become indexed with the search engines.
You can see if your site is indexed with various search engines (which means that they have them listed – somewhere) by using this searchit! tool that SBI offers. Just click in the first step – under site statistics- indexed pages and in step 2 click on which search engine you want to check. The above example doesn’t show any listings but it may also be a new site. It takes time to get indexed but not long if you know what you are doing.
The other thing is using free hosting such as yahoo. Don’t get me wrong. I made my first site on a free webhost but the thing about these services is that there will be ads listed along the sides or where ever and they will most likely be ads for your competitors. You most likely don’t want that! Here is a sample on yahoo.
Both of these sites were just submitted to my free directory www.massagetherapycareers.com. You can just submit your site here. The idea is that search engines love links going to your site. It may or may not actually get people to click on to your site from this listing, but what it does do is let the search engines know you are popular and that looks good. ( I hope these two don’t mind me using them as an example. It will at least get them traffic and hopefully they can learn how to make a website that works which is also the name of my free ebook that I wrote that you can get by sending an email to : websitesthatwork@thebodyworker.com)
You can learn about creating links in the ebook Make Your Links work that is provided from Sitebuildit!
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You are correct Julie. Building a website with frames is a poor way to go. I read an intersting article about Seaarch Engine Optimization a few weeks back, and one thing it pointed out is that spiders can not see content inside of frames. Any content inside the frame is not indexed on the search engines, so basically you lose in ranking. The first example you showed was a great looking site, but I ran the URL on Sitereportcard.com and there are no listings of that site on any of the major search engines except through as listing on your blog
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So it’s another good example of how you can pay money for a great looking site, but it might as well be useless if no one can find it.
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