I have a website that uses frames and I was wondering if there is a simple way to change the pages into non-frames for search engines.

just use SSI (server side include) option instead of frame.

Is there a tutoriol on that?

It's quite simple:
Add this line where you want your ssi pages.
<!--#include file="your.html"-->

If you set your website out in tables so that the table matches your original frameset layout

EG: If you had a frameset set like this;
Top frame
Main frame
Bottom frame

Use the ssi tags like this on the main frame:
<!--#include file="top.html"--> top frame

your content would be here

<!--#include file="bottom.html"-->bottom frame

Hope this helps

Andy

My frame looks abit more complicated than that.

Its

<frameset framespacing="0" border="0" frameborder="0" cols="*,75,838,75,*">
<frame name="Left" target="main" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" noresize src="frames/left.htm">
<frame name="Left2" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" noresize src="frames/left2.htm" target="_self">
<frameset rows="174,48%,26">
<frame name="main" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" src="frames/top.htm" target="_self" noresize>
<frame name="main2" src="frames/main.htm" target="_self" scrolling="auto" marginwidth="16">
<frame name="main1" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" noresize src="frames/bottem.htm" target="_self">
</frameset>
<frame name="Right2" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" noresize src="frames/right2.htm" target="_self">
<frame name="Right" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" noresize src="frames/right.htm" target="_self">
<noframes>

So how could that be changed?

Originally posted by Andy AWFX
It's quite simple:
Add this line where you want your ssi pages.
<!--#include file="your.html"-->

If you set your website out in tables so that the table matches your original frameset layout

EG: If you had a frameset set like this;
Top frame
Main frame
Bottom frame

Use the ssi tags like this on the main frame:
<!--#include file="top.html"--> top frame

your content would be here

<!--#include file="bottom.html"-->bottom frame

Hope this helps

Andy

He's asking about frames, which are strictly client side. SSI is mainly used for including headers/footers/other things dynamically... on the server side. You have to change it into HTML for the browser to display it on the client side, right? So he's asking about a simpler way to display his pages ... an alternative to frames; SSI is not an alternative, it's apples versus oranges.

As for the original question, I don't know much about frames, nor do I like them, but sometimes they are a necessity. There are solutions, but none that I know of are as widely supported by browsers as frames are.