Not if I put right meta tags in the page that’s containing the frames instead of the documents that are loaded in the frames, no??
Ah, why would one do that?? Services I can understand but why would anyone want to link to my portfolio??
No indeed. Only 1 major search engine (don’t remember which) still reads meta-data for use in search ranking – the rest of them, namely Google, MSN, and Yahoo, don’t.
then what do they do??
Instead of reading meta tags? They spider the entire page instead.
then how can a framed page be spidered by the search bots?? should I put some of the content in between the <noframes> tag??
While you don’t have server access, you do have the ability to upload a .htaccess file. If your server is Apache driven, you may wish to look into using .htacces to allow for the use of Apache’s mod_rewrite capabilities. You can learn all about that in the “Configuring your server” forum. 
Hope this helps.
Hi Dave! Hope everthing’s goin great for ya!
Hi, Mike… We miss you, over at “that other place”… 
Things are, indeed, well, and I have a CBE question or two for you later (No time, now)…
cool,
have a good un
Now what does that mean?? I asked if I could have my framed pages spidered by search bots & you are telling me to go for a .htaccess file?? As far as I know, its used to restrict access to the directory in which its present. What’s that gotta do with search bots & spidering. I think that an ideal solution will be robots.txt file, now wouldn’t be.
.htaccess is for many things. Dave is assuming you are using the Apache webserver, and that mod_rewrite is installed. mod_rewrite allows you to rewrite URLs into something you’d rather see – so he’s not talking about the spidering with this one.
As long as all your links are in place, you have good <title>s and header tags, the search engines will spider your pages, framed and all, all on their own.
ok, I get that.
Now as to what Dave said, how do I know whether mod_rewrite is installed or not & how do I use .htaccess file for that, I mean re-writing urls??
Well, mod_rewrite is a Apache feature, so if you’re running IIS, then you don’t have it.
URL-rewriting add-ons are available, however, for IIS.
Which server are you running?
Both Apache & IIS. Actually I am not running any server but I have webspace on both Linux(which has Apache) & Windows(which is running IIS).