ASP.NET's Adaptive Rendering creates dup content in se's

.net cloaks out of the box

[ogletree]

Well I finally got to the bottom of my weird url's we talked about [webmasterworld.com] a few weeks ago. .NET uses something called Adaptive Rendering. It is their answer to cross browser compatibility. The whole point of .net is that you can put up a site real fast and not have to worry about the details.

It assumes that googlebot does not accept cookies and that it should give out a weird url with a session id.

(X(1)A(some_random_92_char_code))

or

(A(some_random_92_char_code))

.NET is cloaking for you. It gives different code to firefox than it does IE.

[dataguy]

The whole point of .net is that you can put up a site real fast and not have to worry about the details.

I read that line yesterday and have been pondering it ever since. (just sitting here shaking my head...)

If only I had understood the depth of this fallacy 5 years ago.

[mrMister]

The whole point of .net is that you can put up a site real fast and not have to worry about the details.

I read that line yesterday and have been pondering it ever since. (just sitting here shaking my head...)

I agree with ogletree's sentiment to a large extent.

Microsoft technologies are always about "getting things going" without requiring much knowledge and ASP.Net is no different. it's easy for someone with virtually no knowledge about HTTP or programming to get going with a dynamic web site.

That's not to say that ASP.Net isn't a very powerful tool when used correctly. It is, but a lot of people don't have the skill to use it correctly.

[edited by: mrMister at 9:03 am (utc) on Oct. 2, 2007]

[ogletree]

The problem of letting software companies do stuff for you is that they may do stuff that you don't like. When it comes to SEO you don't want people doing stuff for you. Very few people even understand why serving Google those URL's is bad. Most developers I deal with could care less about SEO. Their job is to give the customer what they want quickly. They are not real happy when you tell them to change something that requires a lot of work. Most of the time I can't say "If you make this change you will rank #1 for all your terms" or "if you don't make this change your never going to rank". There are often times when I make sound SEO advice and they come back with "well this company is doing it and they rank #1".

[dataguy]

it's easy for someone with virtually no knowledge about HTTP or programming to get going with a dynamic web site.

Ouch!