I work for a new company that recently had a website designed that contains frames (www.cmeg.tv). In January of this year the site was submitted to search engines, but due to the frames, it has not been indexed . Because the programmer of the site is not available, and because I'm not a computer programmer or an Html expert, I have spent many hours searching for a solution on the web.

I think I might have gotten my answer, but I need some validation. I came across an article entitled "The Basics of HTML" that recommends setting up a page called main.html for people with browsers that cannot read frames.

My questions:

1) Would a main.html page also solve my problem with search engines not being able to index my site?

2) If I had somebody design this main.html page for me, would I also need other adjustments made to the coding on my site before the search engines will index it?

3) Being at a total loss, is there somebody out there who could set up this page for my site and do any other coding that is necessary? Of course I would be willing to discuss a fee for their service.

Welcome Ladoody!

Yep, frames aren't all that great when it comes to search engines. However you can get around it with little HTML knowledge...

First of all to make sure you get indexed is submit one page a month to the search engines until you know you're indexed. Because of the volume that goes through the search engines not all websites are indexed. Once you're in one of the major search engines you'll end up in jsut about all the crawlers. But before you do submit again, read below.

You've done the right thing and added a <noframes> tag. The search engines will find this.

In this tag you should try to link to all the pages on your website or atleast the ones that link to msot of your other pages such as the site map. The search engines will just follow them, indexing all your pages.

Then link to a site map on all your pages to make sure they are all idnexed regularly.

That should keep you going.

Good luck!

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Thanks for the help. I'm going to give it a try.