Workaround for frames?

[EcommerceSite]

Currently we have our item pages descriptions sitting in frames. I want to get rid of the frames altogether but my developer has said that it is a pain. Is there a way to have the text in the source code readable by search engines but not showing on the page? What about using the noframes tag? If I do a search for my frames they are actually indexed. Should I use a robot.txt block on these pages? What about rel-canonical? Any thoughts would be appreciated.

[OlegKorneitchouk]

Is there a way to have the text in the source code readable by search engines but not showing on the page?

Sounds like cloaking. What exactly are you trying to do? There are many ways to include an external page and have it appear in the source.

Look into using AJAX/jquery to read and echo a page's content. You should also look into hidden divs that you can toggle (using something like jquery)

[EcommerceSite]

All I want are the words that are in this frame. The page is done in .net. Which one of those you suggested would be the best??

[OlegKorneitchouk]

this one

[EcommerceSite]

Few things I should also explain.

I know almost nothing about programming so if I send this to my developer he should be ok?

The information is put in with a WYSIWYG by the customer, approved by us, then displayed in the frame on an item page. Would this be able to display what is in the WYSIWYG.

[OlegKorneitchouk]

If he is an aspx developer, send him this. Thinking about it, its better than the jquery. It would go to the url you set, read in the html outputted, and echo is onto the page.