I've had a website up for a couple of years, built with simple "frameless" pages. It includes my family history info, on which I get quite a few hits from various search engines. I now want to upgrade those pages, and have nice authoring tool that will build the pages from my database, creating basic a side-by-side layout using frames. The index appears in the left half of the screen, and the data pages in the right.

My question -- how do search engines deal with such pages? That is, when someone finds one of my pages in Google or whatever and clicks the link, does that bring up the frame with the two pages in their proper places, or just the one page that was supposed to be in the right-hand section of the frame?

Any illumination would be appreciated.

Thanks,

So I gather it's not an issue of the major search sites, but will be for others. I've already placed a link as you suggest, using a script someone helped me create that only is displayed when the page is not in a frame. Of course it's browser dependant, but works with IE6 and Netscape 7, so all in all, it looks like I'm covered for the majority of the cases.

Terry