Displaying full URL & search engines

[mikeearl]

I recently created & published a new site www.eamarine.com. Which is total 15 pages with home/Index page at top level and most of the other pages as daughter pages from the index page. However when moving from one page to another page, by clicking on the page link on the page, www.eamarine.com remains displayed in the address bar.ie Not www.eamarine.com/pricing.html etc.. If I move by entering www.eaxxxx.com/pricing.html in the address bar then it goes to the correct page, no problem, but www.eaxxxx.com/pricing.html remains displayed even after I've moved to another page. This happens in both IExplorer (various versions) & Mozilla Firefox.
Whilst in itself this behaviour is not a problem, I am worried that the search engines will not see anything more than the opening index page.
BTW I get the same behaviour publishing 'Flat' or 'Asset' based.
Can anyone throw any light on this? If the search engines will be unaffected, then no problem. But if they are only seeing the index page, then their definitely is a problem that I've got to fix.
Any help, information, or fixes for this very gratefully received.
Thanks
Mike

[Adrian]

HI Mike

It's to do with frames (have you designed the website using frames ?)

If you open up the home page and do a page | view source -
you'll see that the whole of your site is wrapped up within a 'frameset'
- which could cause issues with search engines.

If you've not set out to make a framed website then it might be
something that you host has set up - but frames generally are reckoned
to be a Bad Idea - for precisely the reasons that you mention in your
email... it makes navigation confusing....

Hope this helps
Adrian

On 09/10/2010 10:39, mikeearl wrote:
> I recently created& published a new site www.eamarine.com. Which is
> total 15 pages with home/Index page at top level and most of the other
> pages as daughter pages from the index page. However when moving from
> one page to another page, by clicking on the page link on the page,
> www.eamarine.com remains displayed in the address bar.ie Not
> www.eamarine.com/pricing.html etc.. If I move by entering
> www.eaxxxx.com/pricing.html in the address bar then it goes to the
> correct page, no problem, but www.eaxxxx.com/pricing.html remains
> displayed even after I've moved to another page. This happens in both
> IExplorer (various versions)& Mozilla Firefox.
> Whilst in itself this behaviour is not a problem, I am worried that the
> search engines will not see anything more than the opening index page.
> BTW I get the same behaviour publishing 'Flat' or 'Asset' based.
> Can anyone throw any light on this? If the search engines will be
> unaffected, then no problem. But if they are only seeing the index page,
> then their definitely is a problem that I've got to fix.
> Any help, information, or fixes for this very gratefully received.
> Thanks
> Mike
>
>

[mikeearl]

Adrian,
Thanks for the prompt response - I had a feeling that might be the case.
Can I 'escape' from the 'Frames' design using Net Objects without completely destroying the existing site or completely re-writing the site?
If so how?
Guess this just became an even bigger "help please".
Thanks
Mike

[Adrian]

HI Mike

On 09/10/2010 11:51, mikeearl wrote:
> Adrian,
> Thanks for the prompt response - I had a feeling that might be the
> case.

<g> - trust your instincts !

> Can I 'escape' from the 'Frames' design using Net Objects without
> completely destroying the existing site or completely re-writing the
> site?
> If so how?

Well - I've never made a frames-based site under NOF, and I notice that
(according to the header on your website), you're using NOF10, whereas
I'm running NOF11....

....so with that caveat....

If it was me, I'd save the existing site (save as template) - just as a
safety-net in case it all goes nergly...

Then create a new site and drag the content across...

Looking at it more closely, you seem to have two pages within yuor
frameset -
one called /body_index.html
and the other called ./right_defaultmasterborder.html (which doesn't
seem to be doing very much.... (famous last words!)

Using a spare copy of the site you just saved, you could try telling NOF
to discard the frame that contains ./right_defaultmasterborder.html,
and replace your current index.html with the /body_index.html file....

You might be lucky <g> - worth a try!

Failing that - you'd want to create a new website starting from
/body_index.html but calling it index.html... and slot all the remailing
pages in uderneath it - probably giving them sensible names

Hope this is clear

Adrian
> Guess this just became an even bigger "help please".
> Thanks
> Mike
>
>

[gotFusion]

Adrian,
Thanks for the prompt response - I had a feeling that might be the case.
Can I 'escape' from the 'Frames' design using Net Objects without completely destroying the existing site or completely re-writing the site?
If so how?
Guess this just became an even bigger "help please".
Thanks
Mike

There is no reason for your site to use frames (unless this is what you wish)

Uncheck all of the frames buttons on the masterborder properties palette



Then clean all work folders and do a full local publish, http://www.gotfusion.com/tutorials/tut.cfm?itemID=4029

[mikeearl]

Thanks both.
Actually site was built with Net Objects 10 and updated with 11.
Found my way to your solutions:-
1) Did a <Save as> & saved site as eamarineBU.nof
2) Opened eamarineBU.nof
3) Then unchecked all references to Frames in master border
4) Saved and re-opened site.
5) Published full site

Magically no layout problems and full page urls shown when changing pages from page links.

Many thanks for poinitng me in the right direction

Mike