framed content, sitemaps, spiders

[xpertadvice4u]

OK, I have some pages with frames with article-type content pages within them. (Don't ask why!)

Am I missing anything in my analysis of what the issues are?

A) spiders will travel down the page and get to the framed section and not be able to read what is in the framed element, because the content within the frame is not actually on that page.

However, the actual page that is within the frame is still considered part of my website - it is in my public docs folder, so the content on that page will still get crawled by the spiders anyway, just at a different time and different URL, right?

So, the site will still get credit for the content, the content pages will just be indexed separately from the pages where the frames reside, and any links on the pages that have the content will be recognized and counted, right?

B) I should submit a sitemap to Google which includes the pages which get inserted into the frames, in addition to the normal navigational tree, like this?

index.html------>Framepagetitle.html------->framepagecontent.html

C) I should manually insert links at the bottom of the plain content pages to all other pages of the site because they do not have their own navigational menu (it is on the frame page within which the content pages are inserted).

D) If I do not want the spiders to crawl some of these pages, can someone please tell me what the specific TAGS/code should say in HTML, so I can manually enter it?

Thanks.

[losercore]

Honestly I would do your best to get rid of the frames. If you keep them make sure there is plenty of content outside the frames on these pages too that is related to what is in the frame.

Really though I would do everything, even redesigning the site, to get rid of the frames.

The sooner it's done the better. You got it all right above but if you have links to: frampage.html then you get no use oh having framecontent.html indexed by google. Why would you want anyone going to a page that was designed to fit in a frame? Unless it's formated nice but then your backlinks should go to that page.

Frames alone can hurt SEO more than you may ever think. I have only used frames when inside the frames there are NO keywords or content. Just like banners or images.