A few years back, "next big thing" to be was utilizing frames within your design. They would prove to be esthetically great for a design since a user wouldn't have to scroll down anymore, they could scroll though information within a window in design.

Even big boys of industry tested and implemented frames right away but there was a big problem.... Search engines don't find crutial information you want them too and here's why...

Let's say you have a page set up with 4 frames, one for top header, one for buttons on left, one for bottom and last for information in middle.

For a search engine to look at one page, it would have to recognize and crawl through four pages of information just to piece together one layed-out page of your web site.

When it comes to better search engine performance, you want all search engines to find your crutial information as quickly as possible but with frames they literally have to go through a maze just to find one aspect of your business.

So if you are using frames within your design, here's next logical step, either:

1) Re-design your site without using frames 2) Add more information built into your frames

Number 1 is pretty straight forward and I think you know what to do if you choose number 1.

Number 2 on other hand gets a little tricky...

Assuming that you know enough about frames and that you haven't allowed users ability to scoll down every frame, let's start to implement more information within your frames.

NOTE: For already established web sites, you want to find out what frames have been indexed 1st and which ones haven't. The ones that have been indexed 1st are ones you will add more links to.

In an effort to beat each other for number one position, each of big three search engines is changing its search engine model or changing its site.

THE SCOOP

In number three position is Google. In their bid to compete, they have changed their model from just a search engine to becoming a world class portal. Adding services like free email and groups, as well as offering a free blog at Blogger, http://www.blogger.com, Google is seeking to attract more users to their site by making it sticky. There's also Froogle, Google's version of an online catalog where you can buy just about any kind of product.

Number two is MSN. Not content to be in number two position, Bill Gates, richest man in America, is adding a spider search engine to his site to offer a much larger segment of Internet.

For some time now, only way to get into MSN was to pay for it. MSN was part of a network of sites including Looksmart, which lost a lot of its popularity when it switched to a paid model.

In number one spot is Yahoo. Over last several years, if you wanted to be in Yahoo directory, it cost $299. Until recently, Yahoo's backend results came from Google until they split. Now Yahoo has acquired Altavista, AllTheWeb, Inktomi, and Overture. Yahoo now has its own spider search engine, and you can get listed free.

SUBMISSION

Submission to the major search engines is easier than ever now because all of them have, or are, building spider search engines.

Note: A spider search engine is different from a directory. Sites offering spider search engines actually "crawl" site and add all of pages on your site to engine provided pages aren't too deep. With directories, human beings usually review sites before adding them to make sure sites are added to correct category.

Times can vary on when your site will be accepted.

For Google, it can take as little as three days to 30 days. Google reserves right not to accept your site.

You can submit to Google here: http://www.google.com/addurl.html

Make sure that you read all of instructions on this site to make most of submitting your site to this search engine, as well as get additional tips about search engine submission.

MSN's search results are currently powered by Inktomi Search Index. MSN is currently working on its own version of a spider search engine.

There are no guarantees your site will be accepted or that your site will be accepted in a certain length of time.

You can submit your site here: http://www.submit-it.com/msnsubmit.htm