iframes and redirection

[trfilmographer]

hi fellow web developers!

I have a bit of a concern. I developed a main page that is a page
that contains 3 iframes - a header iframe, a body iframe, and a footer
iframe. My concern is that if search engines can only read the body
content on the body.html

So... I want to write something for these body.htmls so that if the
person clicks through a search engine link to go directly to the
body.html page, they instead will be redirected to the main.html page
- which contains the expected header, body.html, and footer iframes.

is there a way to do this? Any ideas?

[Dr J R Stockton]

In comp.infosystem s.www.authoring.html message <doraymeRidTh is-
63************* ******@web.aioe .org>, Tue, 9 Sep 2008 08:41:36, dorayme
<do************ @optusnet.com.a uposted:

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Make sure that if a search engine finds a frame all on its lonesome,
that frame has a device in it to alert the user to go to the frameset
page which is its true home.

But the frameset page is not necessarily a sole true home. A site can
be constructed to be workable entirely without frames, including the
entry page, but to allow adding of frames for those (probably with large
screens) who want them.

Example : <http://www.merlyn.demo n.co.uk/frames-4.htm?dm034-24.htm>

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[dorayme]

In article <$D************ **@invalid.uk.c o.demon.merlyn. invalid>,
Dr J R Stockton <jr*@merlyn.dem on.co.ukwrote:

In comp.infosystem s.www.authoring.html message <doraymeRidTh is-
63************* ******@web.aioe .org>, Tue, 9 Sep 2008 08:41:36, dorayme
<do************ @optusnet.com.a uposted:

Make sure that if a search engine finds a frame all on its lonesome,
that frame has a device in it to alert the user to go to the frameset
page which is its true home.

But the frameset page is not necessarily a sole true home. A site can
be constructed to be workable entirely without frames, including the
entry page, but to allow adding of frames for those (probably with large
screens) who want them.

Example : <http://www.merlyn.demo n.co.uk/frames-4.htm?dm034-24.htm>

I have no disagreement here. A reality check though: anyone who makes a
framed site these days is quite unlikely to get this complex. The
simplest thing anyone can do in a framed site is make sure there is a
link back to the home page in each frame or at least a link to a
frameset that contains it along with general site navigation.

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[Rick Merrill]

dorayme wrote:

In article
<ee************ *************** *******@t1g2000 pra.googlegroup s.com>,
tr************@ gmail.com wrote:

>hi fellow web developers!

I have a bit of a concern. I developed a main page that is a page
that contains 3 iframes - a header iframe, a body iframe, and a footer
iframe. My concern is that if search engines can only read the body
content on the body.html

So... I want to write something for these body.htmls so that if the
person clicks through a search engine link to go directly to the
body.html page, they instead will be redirected to the main.html page
- which contains the expected header, body.html, and footer iframes.

is there a way to do this? Any ideas?

If you irresistibly want to use frames, read:

<http://www.markparnell .com.au/articles/frames.php>

Yes, I still want to use frame because I do not want the content
indexed/googled and it will not display a bookmarkable URL.

Make sure that if a search engine finds a frame all on its lonesome,
that frame has a device in it to alert the user to go to the frameset
page which is its true home.

You would be surprised to know how many lost frames can turn up on the
internet. I run a small not-for-profit agency that takes them in and we
look for their siblings and proper home and try as best as we can to
reunite them all. Many of them are in extremely depressed states. sad.

But there are some frames that are perfectly happy - we don't take these
in - because they were "only-children". That is, they never really
needed to be in a frameset in the first place.

Anyway, if you find any of this advice helpful, you might like toshow
your appreciation by donating to the refuge I run. $US only please.

[dk_sz]

I didn't. Sadly I hired someone

Frames are bad for search engines for one. Better to
use server-side includes or some server side language.
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