Need help with "wild" URL

I have never seen this and need your opinions

[jtoddv]

This is the first time I have ever come accross such a URL and was wondering if it would be indexed:

http://www.domain.com/(z0rn2y23zcnpbl55wzx1t045)/pagename.aspx

Now, it looks as though it is passing a session variable in the "()".

Has anyone ever seen, tried or experienced a SEO campaign with such a URL system? The "()" carry accross every page and does not change per visit. Would it be possible to optimize such a site?

Thanks,
Justin

[Chico_Loco]

Nope - thats a horrid move

The bot won't know it's a dynamic page, will have a session variable for EACH HIT (never mind each visit), and will kick the site for duplicate pages..

It would be the direct exact of having hundreds of subfolders, each of which contain EXACTLY the same material.

[SlyOldDog]

Why? the (xxx) is just the directory name. No duplication there. I see no difference in using the meaningless characters and a real word. I see no reason why Google would care either.

[jtoddv]

Sly,

The "(xxxxxx)" is not a directory name. It was one set of numbers and letters for me, then a different set for another user. It is always changing. It has to be the session variable.

This is going to be a nightmare for me. I can tell already.

Thanks for your help guys. Anyone else ever seen this?

Justin

[Helpmebe1]

Justin,
Hate to say this but never ever saw that, maybe its just me though

[jtoddv]

NP HelpMe, I never saw it either. It is definitely a new one.

Thanks anyway,
Justin

[RawAlex]

The problem is that googlebot would certainly see each of these as a new directory, and each of those directories would have exactly the same content as the others - massive duplication.

Alex

[jimbeetle]

jtoddv,

If the session tag or whatever you want to call it is dynamically generated for each user you probably won't run into the problem of duplicate pages. Many big shopping sites use them (for example, Amazon just gave me a bla-blahblah-blahblahblah tag) that I don't think will result in dupe pages there.

Is it the type of thing that concentrating on the .asp pages themselves might work? Basically it might not matter where I enter the site at domain.com/page-i-want.asp that's subsequently changed to domain.com/session-tag/page-i-want.asp or some flavor thereof.

There has to be a way to do it. Cruise around the big boys sites to see how they work, check the SERPs for popular searches and see how they pop up.

Ain't much but some exploration might give you some ideas.

Jim