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Googlebot session ID crawling errors on forums

         

Chetanmosaic

4:58 am on Mar 27, 2012 (gmt 0)

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The Scene is:-

I have phpbb forum integrated in my website. The issue is - In webmaster tool under crawl error section there were 250k+ erros mentioning url "not followed". These all url's have session id's. If i fetch them as google bot - the response code is 301.
If i am fetching the same url deleting the session id - the response code is 200.

Added: Googlebot can crawl without session id url's.

Please suggest as crawl error urls are increasing day by day.

The url's:-
with session id: example.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=204800&sid=abde2ee4129b26a79bb847e7672d7784
without session id: example.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=1

lucy24

6:49 am on Mar 27, 2012 (gmt 0)

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Have you been to GWT and told it to ignore the sessionID parameter? This week it's under "Site Configuration" : "URL Parameters".

g1smd

7:09 am on Mar 27, 2012 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member Top Contributors Of The Month



When Googlebot visits your site, don't hand it a session ID. Likewise for other such bots.

This entails a modification to the PHP scripts running the site.