Use an inline frame?

[sakowski]

I have a search engine
question you could probably answer quickly. On a site I just set up at
http://wayneofthewoods.com/ I have a menu table (left side) containing
about 95 links and virtually each page of the site has this bar.

1. Will the search engines "tire out" before they get to the main
content?
2. Will I be penalized for having this same table of links on each page?
3. Would framing this menu be better? (I couldn't get as clean a look with the inline frame)

Thanks,
Mike

[greg]

well, search engines will not crawl iframes, i'll tell you that right now. why do you need all those links there though? You have it categorized. You can use DHTML tables and have it expandable, then just use a normal site map to make sure it all gets indexed. I as a surfer and a designer am turned off quickly when i see a ton of links like that.

Find some better way to organize the thing and you would get much better results all around

[sakowski]

Thanks for the reply greg! I will look into DHTML tables. I know what you are saying about pages full of links, however these are organized by categories and in alphabetical order. When I get a search result that is nothing but more links, I refer to this as a "trash page". On my site however, each page has content matching the title and heading. I will run this by some others (that are into woodworking ) to get more opinions before I switch to the DHTML tables.

Thanks again,
Mike