Jeff Cashman at Island Design came up with this workaround to make your frames-using pages more “web-spider” friendly.  The problem lies in the fact that web search engines look for <META> tag information in the default index page of your site, and if you´re using Frames, that default page is actually the “Frameset” page (see the Note on How Frames Work for the gritty details).

(this is from the web-design newsgroup - mpl)

You need to add a noframes section to the site. I just figured this out, and it worked wonderfully.

To do this, go to the Master HTML (Right-Click [Control-Click if you´re on a Mac] on the MasterBorder area and select “MasterHTML” - mpl), select the “Beginning of Body” tab (not inside the head, as Netscape browsers won´t handle this correctly) and add this code:

<noframes> <title> put in a title here for the search engine to find </title> </noframes>

Also, be sure that you have included full <META> tag information in the “Inside Head” section of the frameset or MasterHTML.