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Is Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache in header a problem for SEs?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by Netizen, Jan 8, 2006.

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    I have a script that generates the following page headers:
    HTTP/1.1 200 OK:
      Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 05:00:39 GMT
      Server: Apache/1.3.33 (Unix)
      Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
      Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
      Pragma: no-cache
      X-Powered-By: PHP/4.4.1
      Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=3578f9eb1f14aead1fd78cf644a631b3; path=/
      Connection: close
      Transfer-Encoding: chunked
      Content-Type: text/html
    Code (markup):
    Obviously, the page will not be cached, but will the spiders still read and index the pages? Is there a problem here that could prevent the content from eventually ending up in the SERPs?
     
    Netizen, Jan 8, 2006 IP
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    minstrel Illustrious Member

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    This part could be a problem:

    Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=3578f9eb1f14aead1fd78cf644a631b3; path=/
    
    Code (markup):
    Google and Dynamic Pages

     
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  3. Netizen

    Netizen Peon

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    Thanks Minstrel.

    I tried a couple of spider simulators and the content came through ok. The page will still load without cookies, too. The session ID is not part of the URL. The URL is .com/?go=string

    Part of this script is encoded, so I can't change the header creation.
     
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    minstrel Illustrious Member

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    I'm not certain that spider simulators will necessarily pick up things spiders can't or won't follow but if you've tested the site with cookies blocked and the site can be navigated without session IDs you're probably OK.
     
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    Time will tell. No dynamic pages found using site: at Y, G, or M. But the site is only a week old.
     
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