Online Marketing Glossary: Frames

Posted on Jul 6, 2008 in Affiliate Marketing |

Frames:

  • An HTML technique that allows two or more pages to display in one browser window.  Many search engines had trouble indexing websites that used frames, generally only seeing the contents of a single frame.

glossary bookWhen internet connection speeds were a lot slower than they are today, frames also prohibited visitors with slow connections or older software to stick around a website.  A lot of web savvy internet users now have much faster connections and frames aren’t as big of a problem for loading purposes.

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Glossary Definition From
ABC’s of Online Marketing by Alexandra Wharton, Issue 22, Revenue Magazine