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Cookie-type variables in URLs....

Something to watch out for...

         

yump

3:28 pm on Apr 30, 2004 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Not sure if this has been posted before and may be very obvious.

We've just discovered that a few of our pages have a cookie-type variable (Coldfusion ID/tokens) attached to the URL when moving from certain parts of the site to others.

This is treated by Adsense bot as a different page for each visitor, because for each visitor, the ID/tokens are different, although the page itself is exactly the same.

So, although we can't tell from our own PCs, a new visitor will get either default or PSAs. until bot has figured out the page content! and even then, the ads probably won't change much, because the number of clicks on the page is very low.

?does this make sense.

Sanenet

3:39 pm on Apr 30, 2004 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



Hi Yump,

I think you're talking about SessionIDS (CFtoken) which are passed through the url when you setup a cfapplication session.

You get new ads each time because the session ID is unique to each visitor, and Google is seeing the cftoken url value change each time. It's assuming you're serving up new pages per visitor.

Change the pages to run cookies instead of cfapplications, or only run them on pages where you really have to :)

yump

9:08 pm on May 1, 2004 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Thanks for the feedback.
We've changed to cookies on some pages.
Bit off topic, but also found it was CFLOCATION adding the ID tokens to URL by default and we can do ADDTOKEN = 'no' to stop it.
Nice to see another CFM user.