wizardsandwars Posted March 19, 2003 Share Posted March 19, 2003 I was using an older snapshop, and I hade installed my own version of the User Agent Spider SID Killer in the html_output.php. Everything was working great, and I got indexed very very high. Recently, though, I upgraded to a newer snapshot, actually Loaded 4, and I put the User Agent Spider SID Killer in place asa usual. I disabled cookies, and didn't see any SIDs so I had assumed that all was good. However, yesterday I went to this Google simulator site, http://www.webconfs.com/search-engine-spid...r-simulator.php (enter www.wizardsandwars.com), to verify that there were no SIDs. What I see is that almost half of the links there DO in fact have SIDs. ???? To take it ever further, I did what I thought would completly diable SIDs altogether, by setting the $sid = NULL for EVERYONE in the html_output.php. However, I'm STILL getting SIDs from this Google simulator. So if the SIDs aren't comming from the html_output.php, where are they comming from? Interestingly enough, I notice that all of the URLs that have a SID are missing the 'http://www.' Does anyone know where these SIDs are coming from, and what the significance of the missing 'http://www.' is? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wizardsandwars Posted March 19, 2003 Author Share Posted March 19, 2003 OK, I figured it out. It turns out that the links with no "http://www." were actually hardcoded links in my news, and in the top portion of my index.php (default.php). it seems that for some reason, when you hardcode links into your html pages, if you do NOT include the "http://www' then a spider will get an SID attached to that link. For instance, in my news, I had the following. <a href="/pc_game_info.php?name=Generals_Strategy_Guide&products_id=139"><u>GC&C Generals</u></a><br> This resulted in Google having an SID attached to that link. But when I changed it to <a href="http://www.wizardsandwars.com/pc_game_info.php?name=Generals_Strategy_Guide&products_id=139"><u>GC&C Generals</u></a><br> There was not SID. Interesting, to say the least. I still don't understand it, but at least I know how to fix it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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