Help - Session ID question

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by smile, Jul 12, 2006.

  1. #1
    Hi everyone :)

    I saw this part from google guideline

    Allow search bots to crawl your sites without session IDs or arguments that track their path through the site. These techniques are useful for tracking individual user behavior, but the access pattern of bots is entirely different. Using these techniques may result in incomplete indexing of your site, as bots may not be able to eliminate URLs that look different but actually point to the same page.


    I dont know programming but my site is using session ID and its not been indexed until now. How do we setup to allow the spiders according to google ?

    is it .htaccess ? what to write ?

    thanks :)

    sincerely,

    smile
     
    smile, Jul 12, 2006 IP
  2. hotpop

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    #2
    Another session id question,I think you can replace it with cookie
     
    hotpop, Jul 12, 2006 IP
  3. mad4

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    You need to edit your CMS (or find the guy who built it and make him do it for free).
     
    mad4, Jul 13, 2006 IP
  4. smile

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    as long as the url in the browser doesnot use " &id= " , its okay right ?

    what about affiliate links hidden in the content and pictures ? but the page title is not &id=

    thanks a lot for your help :)

    smile
     
    smile, Jul 13, 2006 IP
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    If the url uses any kind of random tracking variable then its bad.

    Hiding affiliate links is another matter, it depends what you are doing.
     
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    but isnot many websites using a tracking somehow ?

    so what do they use ?

    thanks
     
    smile, Jul 13, 2006 IP