Wednesday, July 09, 2003
Frames CAN get listed. . .
It's not impossible to get framed pages listed in the top ten.
Don't get me wrong: it's not an ideal situation, but it's not impossible, either.
In keeping with the current theme of "clients calling me after all the design is done, wondering why they aren't listed in the search engines" - - - I can think of two clients who had framed sites.
It took me only a matter of days to get a top ten listing for one of them at Google, for a phrase that gets them a fair amount of traffic. It took mere weeks to get them top ten positioning for a number of other popular key phrases, including michigan waterfront property, michigan condominiums, Saugatuck real estate, Saugatuck realtors, Michigan cottages, etc. - - - at a number of top search engines, including Google. Go ahead -- take a look. You'll find them at Saugatuck real estate.
And no, I didn't take down their site and re-design from scratch. They had already spent a lot of time and effort in development, and their site could be helped merely by adding good old-fashioned text-based content outside of their frames. A simple and perhaps inelegant fix, but it worked very quickly to get their target audience clicking through, or even calling the toll-free number listed in the title tag at the search engines. And that's kinda important in a seasonal business like lakeside cottage rentals.
Same story with a used honda parts salvage yard. They had/have a framed site, and they've been in the top ten at important search engine sites for terms like "used honda parts" for years.
In some cases, you can put in a "quick fix" after the design is done. And yes, in some cases, framed sites can do well with search engine rankings. ¶ 7/09/2003 08:36:00 AM
It's not impossible to get framed pages listed in the top ten.
Don't get me wrong: it's not an ideal situation, but it's not impossible, either.
In keeping with the current theme of "clients calling me after all the design is done, wondering why they aren't listed in the search engines" - - - I can think of two clients who had framed sites.
It took me only a matter of days to get a top ten listing for one of them at Google, for a phrase that gets them a fair amount of traffic. It took mere weeks to get them top ten positioning for a number of other popular key phrases, including michigan waterfront property, michigan condominiums, Saugatuck real estate, Saugatuck realtors, Michigan cottages, etc. - - - at a number of top search engines, including Google. Go ahead -- take a look. You'll find them at Saugatuck real estate.
And no, I didn't take down their site and re-design from scratch. They had already spent a lot of time and effort in development, and their site could be helped merely by adding good old-fashioned text-based content outside of their frames. A simple and perhaps inelegant fix, but it worked very quickly to get their target audience clicking through, or even calling the toll-free number listed in the title tag at the search engines. And that's kinda important in a seasonal business like lakeside cottage rentals.
Same story with a used honda parts salvage yard. They had/have a framed site, and they've been in the top ten at important search engine sites for terms like "used honda parts" for years.
In some cases, you can put in a "quick fix" after the design is done. And yes, in some cases, framed sites can do well with search engine rankings. ¶ 7/09/2003 08:36:00 AM
