I recently changed session variables on my website from including them in the URL to using cookies. I did this to increase the relevance of Google AdSense ads on my website, www.SMARTERyellowpages.com (Google recorded the URL of a page including the session variables in the URL, but visitors would never see that URL when they viewed the same page, thereby reducing the likelyhood of relevant ads and revenue.)
Since the search engines indexed the pages including the session variables in the URL, I created a re-direct to the new URL without the session variables in it to keep the original URL from throwing an error.
Now I'm not sure I did the right thing. Doing as I did, will the search engines ever change their URL to the new URL without session variables?
best, paul
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psmith3141
, Feb 03 2005 02:20 PM
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Posted 04 February 2005 - 04:24 AM
Welcome Paul ! 
Don't think I've had the pleasure of meeting you before.
What you laid out is pretty much the right way to do it. Two things to pay particular attention to.
First you don't want to require either a Cookie or Session ID. You can request either, and the vast majority of real surfers will allow one or the other. The trick (with the search engines) is not to Require either, since spiders don't accept cookies and SIDs are certainly mess up how your site is displayed in the SERPs.
Your redirect to a non-SID version of the page is the best way to go as well. The key there is what type of redirect you're using. For the search engines you'll want to make sure those redirects are delivering a 301 server response.
As long as those two bases are covered, and it sounds like they may be already, you should be good to go.
Don't think I've had the pleasure of meeting you before.What you laid out is pretty much the right way to do it. Two things to pay particular attention to.
First you don't want to require either a Cookie or Session ID. You can request either, and the vast majority of real surfers will allow one or the other. The trick (with the search engines) is not to Require either, since spiders don't accept cookies and SIDs are certainly mess up how your site is displayed in the SERPs.
Your redirect to a non-SID version of the page is the best way to go as well. The key there is what type of redirect you're using. For the search engines you'll want to make sure those redirects are delivering a 301 server response.
As long as those two bases are covered, and it sounds like they may be already, you should be good to go.
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