Javascript and Frames.

[Jinnkun]

Hi there,

I was curious. Currently my website is using javascript that does document.writes for header and footer content that I don't want crawlers to include(since it's not relavent content to what I have on my site). I also use a framed section for my shopping cart subbox in hopes that once again the crawlers won't get to it.

My question is, does engines like the big 3(Yahoo, MSN, Google) penalize my websites' search and page rankings for doing this?

The content I have in my header/footer/shopping cart box contains alot of words that doesn't related to what my site is about so I did imagine doing this is doing the engines favor but Im not sure if they see it that way.

[fathom]

Hi there,

I was curious. Currently my website is using javascript that does document.writes for header and footer content that I don't want crawlers to include(since it's not relavent content to what I have on my site). I also use a framed section for my shopping cart subbox in hopes that once again the crawlers won't get to it.

My question is, does engines like the big 3(Yahoo, MSN, Google) penalize my websites' search and page rankings for doing this?

The content I have in my header/footer/shopping cart box contains alot of words that doesn't related to what my site is about so I did imagine doing this is doing the engines favor but Im not sure if they see it that way.

IMHO it is a good practice. Javascript allows you better control over which pages 'deserve' the weight and relevancy that comes into and is passed around your website.

As Javascript is merely a programming language "it will never be considered BAD such that the use is penalized".

At some future date bots may intrepret the Javascript data thus loss of control but again that doesn't signify any penalizing action.