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Google listings session ID's in URL's

Wtf!

         

Angelis

3:58 pm on Aug 2, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Just checking the backlinks for one of my domains reveals that I have 700 versions of the same forum page (just 1 page not any?'s or anything after it) with session ID's attached.

Perhaps Google has shot itself in the foot, my PR dropped from 4 to 0 last update and I think I just figured out why.

Not much of an issue its an old version of the site that has been deleted, question is can anyone else see this in their sites?

Its phpBB btw.

webdude

8:26 pm on Aug 2, 2005 (gmt 0)

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That has been happening to me for the past couple of months. Just spent a boatload of time fixing it. I now only use session ids when absolutely neccessary and use robots.txt to keep G out of shopping baskets and such.

Rocknroll

9:51 pm on Aug 2, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Best way is to avoid this is: Identify the useragent, and if the useragent is one of our beloved "spiders" do not hand them a session ID, let them go without it and crawl (they are not going to buy anything anyways ;) LOL). I have done this in past and it worked very well. Hope this helps

trimmer80

11:52 pm on Aug 2, 2005 (gmt 0)

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try this. I havn't used phpbb in a while but this may help.

[phpbbfetchall.com...]

moftary

12:19 am on Aug 3, 2005 (gmt 0)

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question is can anyone else see this in their sites?

Yes, AFAIK google has started to index session ids in their serps a few months ago. I have seen so in a competitor site serps.

~moftary