hubcat Posted July 22, 2005 Share Posted July 22, 2005 I just opened my shop today. (Actually "live" since last night, but submitted to google and dmoz this morning along with announcing to my friends.) Anyway, this is my first online store, so I'm doing a bit of guessing. 10 minutes after submitting my sitemap to google, I got 9 guests online all from the same IP address. This appears to be a spider, right? Now, all 9 instances have OSC SIDs! I have Prevent Spider Sessions set to TRUE, and the most recent (as of last night) version of spiders.txt. Also have a well researched robots.txt. I also have Recreate Sessions to True, but everything else in Sessions false. I'm not requiring cookies, because I heard it could cause lost sales. So... am I right about this being a spider? Is that what you would typically see? And, how are the spiders getting SIDs? Is there something other than cookies being turned on that I can do to prevent it? Is the listing in "Who's Online" considered acurate? Any ideas? Thanks, Adrienne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FalseDawn Posted July 22, 2005 Share Posted July 22, 2005 Look at your logs for the referrer name. If it's a name that isn't matched by any of your spiders.txt entries, then it will get sessions. Nothing you can do about that. Don't hold your breath waiting to get listed on DMOZ either - the usefulness and ethicality of DMOZ are questionable now anyway. Better to get a google XML sitemap created and overture/adwords if you want traffic quickly (most SE will take a month or 2 to index your site fully) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hubcat Posted July 22, 2005 Author Share Posted July 22, 2005 Hmm, looking in the logs it looks like they couldn't find spiders.txt. Maybe we had it in the wrong place. Thanks, Adrienne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♥Vger Posted July 22, 2005 Share Posted July 22, 2005 You'll also find that AOL users generate lots of session id's, because AOL caches each item on a page on a different server (don't ask me why - maybe they're just crazy). 1 page 15 images = 16 sessions for AOL. Vger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hubcat Posted July 23, 2005 Author Share Posted July 23, 2005 Ah, that may be what I was seeing today, then. Thanks! Adrienne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 23, 2005 Share Posted July 23, 2005 You'll also find that AOL users generate lots of session id's, because AOL caches each item on a page on a different server (don't ask me why - maybe they're just crazy). 1 page 15 images = 16 sessions for AOL. They do it because they route their users through an array of caching proxy servers. The user has no control over which proxy server(s) are used to fill their requests, and the requests get spread over many proxy servers to achieve a load balance of sorts. -jared Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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