Google and Cookies

[gregsilver]

Does googlebot accept cookies?
I am coding a site that I want crawled, but alot of the output is defined by cookies set on entering the site.

Is there an alternative to issuing a cookie to googlebot?

[korkus2000]

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This thread goes into detail on how to use asp to get around googlebot not being able to use cookies.
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Which server-side language are you using or can use?

[gregsilver]

Cold Fusion :-\

[korkus2000]

I have never really used Cold Fusion.
Can you create an html site map to get the spider to your pages?

[gregsilver]

I guess I will have to make some "search engine frienndly" links.

But the question here was Does GoogleBot accept cookies?

[korkus2000]

No googlebot does not except cookies.

[Macguru]

Hi gregsilver,

No. As far as I know, no search engine spiders at all is able to use cookies.

[gregsilver]

ok thank you.