the basic practice of SEO is "search engine compatibility". many sites do things with sessions, frames, javascript and such that are effectively a "romulan c

the basic practice of SEO is "search engine compatibility". many sites do things with sessions, frames, javascript and such that are effectively a "romulan cloaking device" so far as Google is concerned. Then they wonder why they don't show up in the search engines. now, there's a whole world things to think about once you're getting crawled, but there are a lot of good sites by good people that are entirely uncrawlable -- all because of ignorance of the "unwritten standards" of the web.