That Google seems to get older and older. Here are the top 10 for site:lucire.com as of October 10, 2024.
The home page isn’t there, and maybe that’s OK. But what is there is the index.html file to the 2000 folder, which was put there to catch any programming errors (e.g. forgetting to go up one directory for a home page link, so a frameset was placed in the 2000 directory that contained the home page). That’s the top item: a 24-year-old URL that hasn’t been linked, if at all, for 24 years.
The same thing happens for the second entry: Google has picked up on a 2003 frameset containing the home page, which hasn’t been linked, if at all, for 21 years.
Call me strange, but I would have thought if something was seldom or never linked, it wouldn’t be ranked highly on Google, especially if it isn’t top-level.
We have two current pages following, which is positive.
Then we come to a frameset that hasn’t been commonly used since 2002. It contains the fashion features’ index, which actually exists outside of a frameset and is linked by the majority of the pages on the site as a top-level page, but no. Google prefers framesets.
The ‘about’ page has been a strange one, since we seldom referred to it, but there’s the 2002 frameset for it, too. The living and beauty frameset follows, even though living and beauty stories haven’t been grouped together for nearly 20 years.
The eighth entry is a massive surprise. It’s the menu bar from a frameset. We stopped using these in 2002, but this contained a 2005 revision. What we must have done back then was continue to update the menu bar as the majority (1997–2002) of pages still used it as part of framesets. Only 2002–5 pages didn’t. But it’s 2024 now, so Google should know that everything from 2002 to date doesn’t refer to this frame component.
Only then do you get to a couple of articles, one from 2022 and one from 2003.
Google has missed most of our top-level index pages with the site: search.
It seems that if you want something to rank in such searches, use framesets.
Again, the opposite of what we have been told, but the proof of the pudding is in the eating.