Session IDs

Session IDs or not

[chavezr]

Hello everyone,

If you can give me some advice on whether using Session IDs will cause problems with bot recrawling my site. We currently use session IDs to view the path of our users to better determine how to develop our navigation, product merchandising etc. I've been told that using session IDs can cause a bot returning to the site not find the site due to the bot previously caching the old session ID.

Has anyone come across this? If so, can you recommend any solution to keep the session IDs?

Your response is greatly appreciated!

Thank you,

Richard Chavez

[Nick_W]

Don't use them.

Each id is unique right? - Robots treat them as unique pages, leads to all kinds of difficulties.

Easy to avoid though, just test the HTTP_REFERER string and don't set SID's for bots ;)

Nick