HTML, XHTML, & CSS, Sixth Edition: Visual QuickStart Guide

Writing Pages That Are Easy to Index

There are three major Web design practices that can sabotage your efforts to get noticed by search engines: frames, image maps, and dynamically generated pages.

Frames

While frames were useful for showing more than one page at a time, this flexibility can also kept them from getting indexed by search engines. Some search engines will ignore a frameset’s frames in favor of its alternate content (as marked by the noframe tag). And if they do index an individual frame, search engines often give the individual frame as a result, which may or may not make sense without the enclosing frameset (Figures 24.16, 24.17, and 24.18). For more on frames, see my Web site (see page 25).

Figure 24.16. So inspired by the ...