10 replies to this topic

[blacktoned]

Can I still get ranked high on certain keywords even if they are inside an iframe? The main page for my website basically has one line of text that states my copyright, lol.

The bulk of my content resides in an iframe. I also have started doing tutorials, however, which reside as a page on their own.

Just curious.

[NGPixel]

iframes are still used by search bots but you should use something more optimized like PHP Include or javascript...

[Maxx-Designs]

Im pretty sure if you want your iframe to apper on search engines you would have to do meta tags for it aswell as your page

[Twenty2Pixels]

Its a lot easier to use php, and the site loads smoother and quicker. Looks nicer aswell. And I think that if the iframes were picked up by a search engine, the user would be directed to the frame rather than site entire site (Im guessing). Don't take my word though, I'm just assuming.

[blacktoned]

Would you guys say PHP is hard to learn? I know HTML, CSS and can understand lines of code in JS.

[Maxx-Designs]

im wanting to learn php but i always give up!

[saferwaters]

blacktoned, on Oct 15 2005, 03:20 PM, said:

Would you guys say PHP is hard to learn? I know HTML, CSS and can understand lines of code in JS.

I thought it would be, but so far im finding it very easy to pick up.

[Scratchbox]

Keep at it...learning php, html, mysql etc, is never a waste of time... as for Javascript...Search engines don't really seem to like it all that much anymore....

[Faken]

In terms of SEO and incoming SE traffic, frames are horrible. Someone could hit a page (and very often will) that is supposed to be inside a frame, so suddenly they have no menu or other elements that would be in additional frames. Do your best to avoid using frames anywhere on your website.

Good luck!

Faken

[syphon]

What some people above were trying to imply...

PHP Includes are some of the simplest functions in PHP, and work very similarly to iFrames, but can be controlled in many different ways that you will find out as you look into PHP.

Includes are not necissarily faster than frames, such as pages executing large queries or loading lots of content. Although you could steer away from that, an iFrame alows your body to load below the iFrame script in the source, before the iframe itself has been loaded.

Note, if you want to have scroll bars, and you think you need iFrames to have them, look into CSS and take a look at the Overflow attribute, which you can assign to a div along with dimensions of an iFrame look alike.

PHP? Hard to Learn? With P2L it gets a whole lot easier My advice is that you start off slow, and DONT START WITH REGEX...AHHHH!

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[Mickoe]

Damn guys, frames are not horrible if you know how to use them..just use the <noframes></norframes> tag...If you are still using frames I suggest you to put a litle javascript that selects what to show according to the browser agent (if they support frames or not) and then just program a part for your content.

However I suggest you to use CSS, get rid of your frames...

Edited by Mickoe, 25 March 2006 - 12:06 AM.