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If your site uses frames, you will have problems.
Search engines are not able to index sites with frames well.
While you rebuild your site without frames (which is what we strongly suggest, it is a very small investiment that will give you the possibility to achieve good results), it is possible to improve it.
A frame is a page containing other pages.
When your page is reached by a spider, only the frame gets indexed, not the content. Because your home page IS the frame.

an example of HTML code for a site using frames

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Your title</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<FRAMESET cols="160,*">
<FRAME name="contents" target="main">
<FRAME name="main">
</FRAMESET>
</HTML>

The only thing to be indexed will be the title of the page, and of course the ranking of the site will not be good at all.

Solution

It is not a real solution (the real one would be to get rid of frames altogether), but it is the best thing to be done quickly: set up another page without frames and insert it in the tag <NOFRAMES> of the frameset.
This tag was introduced a long time ago to make the content visible to older browsers that could not show frames.
Nowadays all the browsers support frames, but search engines don't.

here is how to insert it

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Your title</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<FRAMESET cols="160,*">
<FRAME name="contents" target="main">
<FRAME name="main">
<NOFRAMES>
Insert here the optimised page
</NOFRAMES>
</FRAMESET>
</HTML>

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