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[fabrizio]

Hello,
I have a commercial website very well indexed in the major search engines, and now I am working to implement our own shopping cart system with the use of PHP built-in session feature. My question is: do you think that the SID number added automatically by PHP in the URLs of my site as in the example below:

http:// www.mysite.com/?PHPSESSID=63...d145fd9a55b2f67

can affect my high search engine positioning?

Any idea and experience is very welcome.

Thank you for your attention.

Fabrizio Ferrari
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Edited by searchrank, 24 February 2004 - 11:02 AM.

[Scottie]

Welcome Fabrizio!

If the session id is only added after a customer puts something in their shopping cart, you are OK. If the software requires a session ID for viewing your products, the search engines won't index them.

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[Jill]

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Jill

[SearchRank]

Welcome Fabrizio!

You definitely want to make sure that session ids are not required. We had a client who used session ids on one of their sites. When you loaded up any page from their site, a session id would be generated after every <a href> link in the code itself. There was no exception for spiders and it wasn't cookie based. It was just there. The result - none of their sub pages were crawled or included by search engines. The site had difficulty obtaining good positioning.

We had another client that used session ids but set them by cookies and did not require them. The result - the sub pages were crawled and the site is positioned very well.