wizardsandwars Posted October 9, 2002 Posted October 9, 2002 Anyone from the DEV team have an opinion about the Googlebot/sessionID issue. You can read about the difficulties we are currently experiencing in the thread below entitled "Googlebots are out in full effect today" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: As of Oct 2006, I'm not as active in this forum as I used to be, but I still work with osC quite a bit. If you have a question about any of my posts here, your best bet is to contact me though either Email or PM in my profile, and I'll be happy to help.
Ian Posted October 9, 2002 Posted October 9, 2002 My opinion is that Google should get their act together. There are a number of spiders which quite happily shrug session id's off. As a rule on my work computer I have cookies turned off completely. Most sites then use session id's, I dont see why I should compromise my privacy for anyone. However that said, I also don't run an online store so I'm biased. You guy's want something that works for you. I would suggest however that the quick hack that drops session id's altogether isn't the way to go. Short term a hack is probably needed. Long term I believe Harald's proposal is not to generate a session-id until it is needed. This boils down to logging in or having an item in cart. As googlebot doesn't need to do this then it should negate the problem. As for a short term solution dropping the id when a specific signature is found is probably the best idea. But what would that signature be?? Trust me, I'm an Accountant.
Guest Posted November 12, 2002 Posted November 12, 2002 I agree, I have seen other engines get along just fine with sid's. I've just recently dove into the osC project so I'm not all that familiar with the backend as of yet (working on it) and I'm sure you have all checked out your access logs for google bot activity. But am I missing something in the fact that it would be possible to enable/disable sid's according to the user-agent of the visitor? As you see below from my logs googlebot very clearly identifies itself no matter what ip it is coming from. Just an amateurs observation...please correct me if I am wrong. 216.239.46.116 - - [12/Nov/2002:07:01:02 -0500] "GET /shop/default.php/osCsid/01a3e64940ec3a0579172e7286a1e870 HTTP/1.0" 200 30270 "-" "Googlebot/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)"
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