Why do search engines hate framed websites?
In this section, I will explain the main reasons why most framed websites fail to get indexed properly on the major search engines that use crawlers such as Google. When we look at the HTML code of a common framed web site, we usually see the TITLE tag, the META tags, and then a FRAMESET tag. The major search engine’s crawlers and spiders such as Google Bot and Freshbot are all programmed to completely ignore certain HTML code and instead are directed to specifically focus on indexing the actual body text on a particular page. But with any typical framed website, there is just no body text for the search engine’s crawler to begin with, simply because the text is located on the other pages of the site, what we call the inner pages. If you want to know what search engines see when they get to a site using frames, this is what they see:”You are currently using a web browser that does not support frames. Please update your browser today in order to view this page.” This is almost the equiv
