__/ [ Roy Schestowitz ] on Monday 18 September 2006 17:29 \__
> __/ [ danish ] on Monday 18 September 2006 17:05 \__
>
>> I have a site that uses PHP Sessions IDs.. I know that total
>> elimination of these from the URL is what is recommended for optimal
>> bot crawling and I am working on that, but is there any way, for now to
>>
>> include a line in robots.txt that would ignore the "PHPSESSID"
>> parameter?
>>
>> For example, the site works just fine when you visit this page:
>>
>>
>> http://fixmyfamily.com/search_details.php?cid=41
>>
>>
>> But by default it generates a URL like this:
>> http://fixmyfamily.com/search_details.php?cid=41&PHPSESSID=0d8ff46dbd...
>>
>>
>>
>> What can be done right now so that Google doesn't crawl these session
>> IDs and then store them and want to come back to them? Thanks in
>> advance for your help. BTW, I don't want to disallow all
>> "search_details.php" URLs..
>
> Hi, this would probably be handled well by alterring the generation of
> URL's in the CMS, either by omitting these duplicates or moving them to a
> (virtual) directory structure so that robots.txt can exclude them (it
> can't/shouldn't do wildcards, but Google is pushing towards
> breaking/'extending' the standards and conventions).
>
> Session ID's are tricky. Are you sure bots are being assigned a cookie? I
> know that spyware-type tools will be passed such URL's, but I don't think
> search engines will browse (crawl) with a cookie. There were similar
> questions before in this newsgroup (sessionid and duplicates), so it's
> definitely worth browsing the archive. It's also worth looking at the logs,
> filering by crawler type (or IP address) to see what is going on underneath
> the surface. Another possibility is to view the cache, e.g. using
> "site:yoursite.suffix".
Addendum: the following has just been published.
http://www.webpronews.com/expertarticles/expertarticles/wpn-62-20060918SessionIDsMakeEcommerceDifficult.html
http://tinyurl.com/zsfzo
Session ID's Make Ecommerce Difficult
It might help.
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