URL Crawlability for Google

[MoveyourwebSEO]

Hello, people!

I'm promoting a site that has very long session ids and after the possible implementing of mod-rewrite to a page called "About us" the address looks like: http://example.com/contact_us-osCsid-c508684020ee013fff67dc93045aaf8c.html

The question is as follows:

Will Google index this or it will not follow this long string of numbers?

[edited by: tedster at 5:25 pm (utc) on Mar. 22, 2006]
[edit reason] use example.com [/edit]

[trinorthlighting]

Session id's will create a mess in google. I use zen cart (Shopping cart) and it has a setting where the spiders will drop the sesson id's when they come and visit.... If you can live without the session id's then change the programming where they will not appear.

I would look at the program you are using and consult with the company who manufactures the software

[Lorel]

also see Google's Webmaster Guidelines and Googleguy has commented on Session IDs also and the problems they cause with SE.

[g1smd]

Do not use session IDs for visitors. Only use them for users that have already logged in.

[MoveyourwebSEO]

Well, I know that leaving as it is (with php session ids strings) is no way..
But the question was what is the maximum characters googlebot can parse. :-)

[JuniorOptimizer]

At least 200 characters. I love long URLs.

[MoveyourwebSEO]

200 chars? I strongly doubt ;-)

[g1smd]

The problem isn't the length of the URL, but that every page of your site has hundreds of millions of different URLs that can be used to access each and every page of content on the site.

[g1smd]

This search shows some VERY long URLs for OpenDocument document URLs: inurl:nsf inurl:opendocument

Hmm, I see that there has been some redundancies in the Department for Redundancies, Redundancy Department.