My site uses servlets, and for cookie disabled user I give a jsessionid=... for session tracking. Does anyone know if Google like / hate / ignore this? will google simply ommit the jsessionid from the URL, and keep on browsing or will just "quit"?
thanks!
Nick_W
8:12 am on Sep 26, 2002 (gmt 0)
Chances are you could get knobbled for duplicate content.
Google reads the session id pages Comes back another day, gets a new sess id and thinks the pages are dupes... bad news!
Best to set the sess id in the url only if the UA does not identify a bot...
Nick
Susanne
8:35 am on Sep 26, 2002 (gmt 0)
Yes, I think Nick is right. I work on a site that got several pages cached double in Google, and in the end we decided to abolish the session IDs. Read more in this thread: [webmasterworld.com...]
flex55
8:50 am on Sep 26, 2002 (gmt 0)
Wow. So that basically means that sites that support cookie-disabled visitors will always be punished by Google? Is that the case? These days site-sessions became so wide-spread, and many sites maintain cookie-disabled sessions by url rewriting, I would assume that the google-guys address these dynamically generated session id's. interesting.
