Using frames to publish content.

Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.

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  Jam Hassan: On of my client using google sites to manage his web sites . Then he is using domain forward to use his custom domain with google sites .problem is that it's using frames to publish content . Any one have solution to this ?
  We want all the HTML to show when we view code . Does google generate HTML . I have no idea about google sites please guide . 
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  David Kutcher: I'd first recommend to redevelop so as not to use frames...
  
  Then follow these directions: https://support.google.com/sites/answer/99448?hl=en
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  Jam Hassan: Ur provided links not working boss 
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  David Kutcher: Works for me...just search for "google sites custom domain" and you'll find the support article.
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  Christina S: Quit while you're ahead. When you point a domain to a Google Site, while the site is accessible at the domain url and everything loks OK and urls change as you navigate, the original Google Site url continues to exist.  ;Hence you now have duplicate content.
  
  Using masked url forwarding (aka framed url forwarding) you saw what happens, the domain is nothing but a frameset. It will never get indexed by itself since it has no content of its own. Definitely not professional.
  
  Using Google sites is at best for a hobby site where indexing and ranking in search engines are not important.
  
  Even Blogger handles custom domains infinitely better - the blogspot url actually gets 301 redirected to the custom domain, unlike the Google SIte utl.
  
  For all other more serious cases build a site on a proper hosting account and point the domain there.  ;
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  David Kutcher: +Christina S ;you're just wrong. I'm sorry. ;
  
  When you map a custom domain to a Google Site or a Blogger site, the system also has 301 redirects put in place. Hence removing the "duplicate content" argument. It is not masked. It is set up as a domain on a hosting, just like any other hosting. Your site on your paid hosting is also probably accessible via http://IP-ADDRESS/site and a bunch of other methods as well.
  
  The frameset, a different story. Mainly because frames are from a different decade.
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  Christina S: There is no 301 redirection from a Google Site url that's been mapped to a custom domain. That is only for Blogger. ;
  
  Unless it has finally been done in the last week or so that is and I missed the announcement.
  
  I've been complaining for years about this anomaly.
  
  My sites on hosting accounts which I control are always canonicalized, and can only be accessed through one canonical form of  ;the domain, with all others 301 redirected to it - for many years now.
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  Christina S: Here's my original rant in the Google Sites forum:
  https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!searchin/sites/webado/sites/xSWoEeslHJM/hClGA2phO0gJ
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  Jam Hassan: How to sort out this frame problem ? 
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  Christina S: He didn't map the Google SIte to his domain properly. He has to follow the instructions given in Google SItes as per:
  https://support.google.com/sites/answer/99448?hl=en .
  
  But then keep in mind what I said previously.
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  W.E. Jonk: From the expert panel in this weeks SEO Questions hangout on air on 01:03:48 into the YouTube video: https://dumbseoquestions.com/q/using_frames_to_publish_content