Duplicate content for Framed pages?

Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by ResaleBroker, Oct 23, 2004.

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    If you put a frame page on your website and fill that frame with content from another website will the search engines perceive this as duplicate content?

    I'm asking because the company I have my domains parked at uses this method for "URL forwarding".
     
    ResaleBroker, Oct 23, 2004 IP
  2. Smyrl

    Smyrl Tomato Republic Staff

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    I have same situation.

    Was asked to quickly put up a page off which to sell tickets for an event 36 hrs before the event. We already owned an unused domain name say cdf.com. The owner of cdf.com owned another working site with domain name abc.com. We put page on abc.com with url abc.com/cdf.html then used what registrar called stealth redirection (frame set up you described) to point cdf.com to abc.com/cdf.html. All worked well until this summer when someone placed a link on their site to cdf.com. I think but can't prove Google picked up the new link and hit us with duplicate content penalty. We should take the single page web and host it on site of its own but owner uses so infrequently he does not want added expense.

    It is my belief that if you never link to the domain name you are pointing to another domain you are probably safe. We had been running this way for 3.5 years.

    Shannon
     
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    I had a similar situation with Godaddy, they have two "forwarding" options, one is a 302 temp redirect and the other is a frame that just dumps the forwarded-to content in the forwarded-from page. Kinda sucks.
     
    exam, Oct 23, 2004 IP