As a working woman on the internet, your website is your presentation to the world. They say you can never judge a book by it's cover but unfortunately in the world of internet business that is true more often than not. There are countless other websites out there competing with you and many times potential customers will only take a few minutes or even seconds to decide whether they want to stay on your website or go elsewhere. Presentation is everything and you must make sure that your website looks both professional and is also search engine friendly.
With this in mind, should you use Frames in your website design? NO! While many websites continue to use Frames in their design, this causes quite a few problems both for website visitors and for search engines. First of all a website designed with Frames does not have separate urls for each page of the website, for example:
With this in mind, should you use Frames in your website design? NO! While many websites continue to use Frames in their design, this causes quite a few problems both for website visitors and for search engines. First of all a website designed with Frames does not have separate urls for each page of the website, for example:
www.yourwebsite.com/page1.html, www.yourwebsite.com/page1.html, and so on. With Frames all the pages have the same url. But if someone wants to bookmark a particular page of the website or link to a particular page they will be unable to. Having your pages linked by other websites is a strong part of website promotion. Frames can also annoy potential customers because “back” buttons don't work properly. Also, if they try to navigate to another website they can become stuck in your Frames which is enough to annoy them into never returning.
Frames are also a nightmare for search engines, which is one of the major sources of traffic to your website. Search engine spiders cannot read Frames and properly index them. Some search engines such as AltaVista and Inktomi refuse to index Framed websites altogether. There are pieces of code that can be inserted within a Framed website to help in the indexing process but even this causes problems because the content will not be displayed as is intended. The best idea for your website is to simply skip the Frames altogether.
~ Booming Blooms WAHM Mall
Frames are also a nightmare for search engines, which is one of the major sources of traffic to your website. Search engine spiders cannot read Frames and properly index them. Some search engines such as AltaVista and Inktomi refuse to index Framed websites altogether. There are pieces of code that can be inserted within a Framed website to help in the indexing process but even this causes problems because the content will not be displayed as is intended. The best idea for your website is to simply skip the Frames altogether.
~ Booming Blooms WAHM Mall
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