RE: [cobalt-users] Alternative needed to framed forwarding.

["Dan Kriwitsky" <list1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> We use our RAQ mainly to manage domains(Historical / 
> developer reasons etc. mean our database and site is ASP & 
> windows based. - Not up for debate yet!), users are forwarded 
> from domains on the RAQ to the NT box on another ISP via a 
> frame to the appropriate ASP page for the site on the windows 
> server. (e.g. www.abcefjobs.co.uk is on the RAQ, the index 
> page opens as a full page frame and pulls the page 
www.oursever.net/default.asp?site=abcdefjobs )

> There a numerous problems with this arrangement (Not optimal 
for search engines, can be confusing for users following 
links to our other sites etc.)

> Its now time to fix this.  How best to do it, without 
moving all of these domains to the NT server.

> I assume I could change the DNS on the RAQ to point to the 
Windows box, as long as it is set for virtual hosing or to 
serve the right asp page dependent on the inbound domain 
(Checking that now.)

> Recommendations would be welcome as  ideally I would like 
to keep the DNS for all these sites under direct control of 
our tag rather than transfer all the domains to the host for 
the windows sever.


Anything you do that involves redirects or forwarding isn't going to be
good for search engines.
With the proper keywords and descriptions tags and content in the
noframes tags, you shouldn't have a search engine problem. Ideally, the
page that's framed has a base target set for _top so any link opens with
the proper URL. There are some CGI scripts and probably PHP as well as
www.hotscripts.com for handling redirects as well. The only problem is
many search engines don't like 301, (I think that's the error code).
-- 
Dan Kriwitsky

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