I know frames aren't good, but are they bad?
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About 3/4 of my website includes frames from the Amazon aStore, but the pages also have at least 500 words of content on them each. I understand that spiders aren't too good with frames but will search engines punish my site for having them or just disregard them?
Thanks in advance.
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I've found no evidence that a site will get punished for using frames - but google will only read the framed link, not the content of it. So the page need its own on-page content, otherwise pages will be marked as "duplicate content".
I would definitely use both title and a paragraph in the iframe-tag to describe the content, to avoid the duplicate content issue.
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