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[admin]

Using frames is not practicing search engine friendly webdesign. There is simply no excuse to use frames now that simple server side technology allows for easy creation of dynamic sites.

Using a frameset makes it very hard for end users to access your content and obfuscates the navigation. There are no large successful websites that use frames, and there is a good reason for this. Even if search engines do index pages, the listed pages will be orphans with no other part of the site available. You would most likely get an interior page with no navigation.

This leaves the user lost, and almost guarantees they will surf over to a non framed competitor.

[goldcougar]

I completly agree. I used frames once but realized that it does not allow users to bookmark a specific page. Since it is frames, it is pages in pages, so only the main frames index.html page will be bookmarked.

I saw one good use for frames, but it was unethical SEO. It was a page containing 90% images, so they made the page 99% of the main page, 1% a blank page that really couldn't bee seen. Then they used the noframes tag and made the text very keyword heavy. It actually worked very well on Google, but again, not very ethical.