This is important stuff.
http://www.thesitewizard.com/archive/framebreak.shtml
Just recently I was looking through my blog stats because I’m such a self-absorbed wingnut, and saw that someone had framed my website!
Basically what it means is that another website had put my website onto theirs, and when people want to navigate through my site, they can only do so on the framer’s website. I’m calling them a framer because I don’t know the lingo very well.
I don’t know the legality of all this stuff, but they’re stealing all my hits.
Instead of e-mailing them or threatening them to take it down, I used the extremely helpful website (shown above), and the help of a friend to guide me through this process (since I’m a self-absorbed, clueless wingnut) to enter code to break out of the frames.
This way, the framer’s website redirects all the viewers to my actual website.
So now we’re all buddies! And I don’t have to write a nasty e-mail to anyone :)
Though if you would like to, please, be my guest.
P.S. – If you are a Foodbuzz member, and willing to let Foodbuzz frame your site, this won’t work for you. :(
How do you know when a Web site is framing you? I can tell through my blogstats that someone hit on my Web site through my Foodbuzz profile, but that has a direct link.
Also, my blogstats show recent pageload activity. Even though a reader may see a blog entry with the page framed by Foodbuzz, my blogstats still count it as a pageload. I have no idea what my blogstats would look like if I wasn’t a featured Foodbuzz member.
Aside from the usual stats coming from sites you belong to or are featured regularly on, if you see any sites that seem out of the ordinary, just click on them and check em out. They ‘technically’ aren’t stealing your hits because everytime viewers view the framed site, you technically get the hit. I think.
This was the website who was framing me:
http://dropfood.com/recipes/
click on some recipes, and you’ll notice that they don’t redirect to the featured bloggers websites.
After I fixed it by inserting a frame break, click on ‘Vegetable Casserole’ and check out how their site redirects to MY website now:
The only bad thing that happens when someone frames your site is that viewers think you BELONG to the framer’s website, and they will continue to go to that instead of your actual website.
Hummingbird – I have wordpress blog stats, and under ‘Referrer’ I have a list of how many hits I get from each Referrer website (foodbuzz, foodgawker, etc.)I’m not sure how detailed the stats are for yours…but I’m sure has to be a way to view the detailed stats.
Now, I had to sacrifice my willingness to be framed by Foodbuzz, since I’m glad to be a member of the food blogging network. Which is a bummer. But I don’t like websites who take other peoples’ content and trick viewers into thinking we’re part of some food community, especially without even asking permission first. So instead of tracking these people down and arguing with them each time I rather just guard my site entirely so it can’t happen anymore.
OK. Now I understand. At dropfood.com, I clicked on yours and the Web address said http://soupbelly.com... Then when I clicked on another recipe, the web address started out like dropfood.com…
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