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SEO Scrolling Frames Problem Solved


In this article, I show you how you can keep certain information on a web page visible, while another portion of the web page is scrollable, without using frames, because search engines do not index pages with frames. This is not the only reason to use frames, but if it's the reason you use them, then you now have a solution to the search engine problem. I will present the solution similar to the way that I discovered it.

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By: Chrysanthus Forcha
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May 27, 2008
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
  1. · SEO Scrolling Frames Problem Solved
  2. · The Trial Phase
  3. · What I Came Up With
  4. · Final Phase

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After giving the BODY element the property “overflow: hidden,” I took off the padding, border, and margin components from the BODY element by adding the following CSS code to the BODY element:


border:none; padding:0px; margin:0px


I tested the resulting code. It worked! This is the final code:


<html>

<!-- Banner and Contents -->

<head>

<style type="text/css">

h1 {text-align:center}

body {background-color:Aqua; overflow:hidden; border:none; padding:0px;
margin:0px}

div#header {width:100%; height:20%; border:1px solid black; padding:0px;
margin:0px}

div#sidebar {width:25%; height:80%; display:inline; border:1px solid black;
padding:15px; margin:0px}

div#main {width:75%; height:80%; display:inline; border:1px solid black;
padding:0px; margin:0px; overflow:scroll}

</style>


</head>


<body>

<div id="header">

<br />

<h1>The Header</h1>

</div>

<div id="sidebar">

<br />

<a href="www.one.com">This is Link One</a> <br /><br />

<a href="www.two.com">This is Link Two</a> <br /><br />

<a href="www.three.com">This is Link Three</a> <br /><br />

<a href="www.four.com">This is Link Four</a> <br /><br />

<a href="www.five.com">This is Link Five</a> <br /><br />

<a href="www.six.com">This is Link Six</a> <br /><br />

<a href="www.seven.com">This is Link Seven</a> <br /><br />

<a href="www.eight.com">This is Link Eight</a> <br /><br />

<a href="www.nine.com">This is Link Nine</a> <br /><br />

<a href="www.ten.com">This is Link Ten</a> <br /><br />

</div>

<div id="main">

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</div>


</body>


</html>


Conclusion

There are two purposes for having frames. One is to keep information on a portion of the web page fixed, while another portion is scrolled. The other is to keep information on a portion of the web page fixed, while another portion is replaced via clicking on a link. Web pages with frames are not spiderable. If your reason for having frames is the first one, and you want your web page to be spiderable, then you can have a web page that behaves like a frame-set by doing this things:

  • Take off the padding, border, and margin components of the BODY element.

  • Take off the scroll-bars of the BODY element using the overflow CSS property.

  • Use DIV elements instead of frames for the different portions of your web page.

  • If you want DIV elements horizontally, side-by-side, then convert them to inline elements using the display CSS property.

  • Give the DIV elements % (not pixels) values for their widths and heights.

  • Use the overflow CSS property to make any of the DIV elements scrollable.

GOOD LUCK.


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