I have a website whose main purpose is a calendar of Classic Car Events in and around S.E.Wisconsin. My original web host complained about the calendar part because they claimed it ate up a lot of resources. I was able to find a nice calendar that is hosted for free by the calendar provider. Since I wanted the website to keep its original look, I put the calendar part inside an inline frame. All of the design part of the website is still at my original host, but the calendar resides on a different host. (I hope I'm getting this clear enough). Our website used to have great placement on a Google search but is now invisible. Do you have any suggestions how to fix this?

What’s the website?

Google doesn’t like iframes. So if the key content is now in the iframe it means google can’t see it.

It sounds like the frame is causing issues. What's I think is happening is the iframe has separated the calendar from the page, so essentially it's has removed the credit for all the dates of events which were displayed in the page leaving only the surrounding content.

To fix this you need that content back. A few ways of doing this depending on how the third party calendar is set up. They might have an API so you can call the dates and insert them into your page, another option might be to essentially scrape the third party for the data, although they might not be too happy about this.

I'm also surprised that your host complained about resources. Bandwidth and memory is really cheap. So unless the site used huge amounts of both it seems like you need to find a new host.

I've got a site with hundreds of events - never had an issue with bandwidth.

fisicx - Who is your web host?  Thank all of you for the insights.  I figured the iframe was the problem.

 

 

31 minutes ago, PattyWeb said:

fisicx - Who is your web host?  Thank all of you for the insights.  I figured the iframe was the problem.

I use a company in the UK so not much help to you.

You should be able to see your stats from your cPanel. This will give you your bandwidth. But unless you are getting zillions of visitors I can see how any calendar is going to cause a problem.