Posted by Mark Goodge on 10/13/07 09:09

On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 19:18:39 -0700, Wings put finger to keyboard and
typed:

>I'm not advocating anything here - just want to alleviate my ignorance...
>What's bad about your site being framed in someone else's site? Wouldn't
>that increase your site's exposure? I understand that the other site could
>be making some financial gain from using your site that way, but how does
>that hurt you instead of help you?

It's not always bad. Sometimes it can be perfectly acceptable, or even
desirable. But not always, and it's always a bad thing to assume it's
OK without asking.

There are three main reasons why it can be bad. Firstly, it uses the
framed site's bandwidth and hosting costs without contributing towards
them. Secondly, it can give a misleading impression that the framed
site's editorial or content policy is the same as as that of the
framing site. And, finally, it can display the framed site in such a
way as to obscure the framed site's own advertising or navigation,
thus reducing the framed site's potential income.

Mark
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