Mobile Web browsers don't like frames - but what can we do about it?

I am all confused. I am very good at making mobile sites. At least, I thought I was. Today I get an email from Ronan Cremin from Find.mobi.  I have asked him for some help improving GoMo News for SEO purposes on find.mobi and also adding (yes, I am asking for favours) some porn sites that I am currently doing the SEO for to be indexed.  He has been extremely helpful and today he told me about the issues or problems with gomonews.mobi and the projects I have.

There are some issues with the porn sites that are video based and that they are just too big to render for mobile.  But at least he tried – I did suggest to the company that they remove the number of videos available on the home page – but they said this is their bread and butter – so didn’t.

This is one of those hiccups with Mobile SEO as you know what to do – but if the company doesn’t want to change – you are a bit stuck.

But, my issues are related to GoMo News.

Apparently, I have frames on Gomonews.mobi.  Ronan says that frames are a huge no no and mobile browsers hate them. GoMo News will only work on S60 devices or the iPhone. But, these frames -

1. How did they get there?
2. Who put them there?
3. How do I get rid of them when I can’t find them?

I made the site from scratch with Wapple. It’s not brilliant but it’s not awful (I just need to spend some quality time on it) –but as hard as I try I can’t find any frames. Then I do a search on the Wapple portal for code that looks like a frame and I can’t see it either? I have opened up a help ticket with Wapple to see if they can solve the problem. But I can’t fix what I simply can’t see – and something that I can’t actually remember including.

Hmmm. But if frames are that bad for mobile sites – should they even be offered to consumers.
Yikes all these questions.  I am not going to try and find some answers.

Comments

[Bryson Meunier]

Hi Bena,

This is another reason why I don't generally recommend using mobilizers when creating a mobile site. There area actually a few issues with this site in terms of SEO, and frames, as you mention is one of them. If you look in the source code you'll see tags, which indicate frames. It looks like the majority of your content is being served in a frame, which is bad for indexing and ranking. I'll email you a pic of the offending code so you can see.

Best,
Bryson