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Author Re: Keywords and Metatags with Frames
Murray *TMM*

2004-08-31, 12:16 pm

> Is there something about frameset pages that prevents search engines from
> reading meta tags?


No.

> Is there anywhere that I can add meta tags so that Google
> (and other search engines) will see them?


In the head of each page, including non-content pages.

Google can take a long time to revisit your site....

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"Samuel NYC" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:ch23o4$do4$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> Hello,
>
> Okay, I know, frames are annoying, but I inherited the website and have to
> work around them for now. Here's my problem:
>
> I noticed that when I search for my organization's website on Google using
> our
> name, the Google link came up as "[website name] Index" and there was no
> descriptive text under the entry. So I went to the frameset page and
> added
> meta tags for keywords, description, and updated the title of the index
> page to
> be more descriptive. Since updating all of these, I've been patiently
> waiting
> for Google to update is cache on our site.
>
> Unfortunately, since the Google cache has been updated, nothing has
> changed
> and it appears exactly as it did before. I clicked on the frame border on
> our
> website to view source and everything seems in order.
>
> Is there something about frameset pages that prevents search engines from
> reading meta tags? Is there anywhere that I can add meta tags so that
> Google
> (and other search engines) will see them?
>
> Any advice is much appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Samuel
>



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