Google bot, 302 and cookie_usage.php - help

[hobievi]

When we analyse our site, around 4000 links have 302 redirects, which is not acceptable SEO wise. Googlebot is trying to add the product to cart (xxxxxxxx/products_new.php?action=buy_now&products_id=829) and being redirected to cookie_usage.php page (since its a bot i guess).

 

Whats the resolution for this without annoying the real customers. Is there a way to disallow clicking CART buttons?

 

Below are cookie/session settings. Maybe not to prevent spider sessions or what?

 

Force Cookie Use False Check SSL Session ID False Check User Agent False Check IP Address False Prevent Spider Sessions True Recreate Session True Prevent Spider Sessions

[hobievi]

- Can it be that i add cookie_usage.php as disallow to robots.txt (but then maybe i will get 404 errors this time)?

- I saw in some topics that there maybe a code to prevent add to cart button if there is no session id. Possible?

[MrPhil]

You should be able to use robots.txt to tell Google etc. not to follow links into specific routines (e.g., /products_new.php), or with specific actions (*action=buynow*). That should keep the bot from following the link the button provides. It shouldn't result in a 404. The bot understands that it is not to follow a certain kind of link.

[Jack_mcs]

When we analyse our site, around 4000 links have 302 redirects, which is not acceptable SEO wise. Googlebot is trying to add the product to cart (xxxxxxxx/products_new.php?action=buy_now&products_id=829) and being redirected to cookie_usage.php page (since its a bot i guess).

 

Whats the resolution for this without annoying the real customers. Is there a way to disallow clicking CART buttons?

 

Below are cookie/session settings. Maybe not to prevent spider sessions or what?

No, you should leave Prevent Spiders on. It might be that your spiders file is not up-to-date. There is an addon for that so you should check it. You should also add the following to your robots file

Disallow: /*action=*