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dmorison - 7:25 am on Jul 17, 2003 (gmt 0)


If any if the variables contain id= then Google will ignore the link as having a session ID.

You sure? That's a bit amateurish for Googlebot - after all, 9/10 newbie database driven pages pass "id" as a parameter referring to the ID of a row in a database,

viewproduct.asp?id=1234

"sessid" or anything with "ses" in it I can understand (or perhaps id= where the value is over a certain number of characters and contains letters aswell as numbers), but simply not crawling on "id" alone would be a bit restrictive I would have thought.


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