Frames and why they can harm your PR

You may or may not have heard of frames. 

These are websites or part of websites that employ a certain form of layout. They arrange their website pages into frames. This allows one page to be divided into several sections. Each frame will display different features. Putting a different HTML document into each frame does this. The sidebar and header does not move when a frame is scrolled up and down.

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Why would you use frames on a website?

1. They make changing sites easier. Only new files need to be uploaded when making changes to pages with frames. Pages without frames must have all the files uploaded for the entire page. Frames can save a lot of time if there are many files on a page.
2. Critique sites make use of frames on their web pages as this will enable them to insert screen shots of sites under discussion and include comments.
3. Gaming sites use frames. This enables them to include different features on one page like real time chat.  One part of the page will be updated and the other will stay the same.



There are several disadvantages in using frames:

Frames are a very specialized way of laying out your site and there are more disadvantages than advantages to using them, especially if you are trying to get indexed in the search engines. If you must use frames in your web pages try to have other pages on your site that do not have to use frames. This means that you will get some pages indexed by the search engines. You can put links on these no frame pages to guide visitors to the pages with frames. In this way you can have the best of both worlds and still get visitors to all the pages on your site.