sunshine-x Posted January 23, 2004 Share Posted January 23, 2004 I'm trying to optomize my site for search engines. I've heard that the SIDs are a problem, so I turned on the Search Engine Safe URLs. This causes an error on my pages, as follows: Error! Unable to determine the page link! Should I use a different SID killer, such as http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,952 Any opinions would be appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noobish-n-stuff Posted January 23, 2004 Share Posted January 23, 2004 do you get this error when you link to one of your pages from a search engine or when you are already at the site? i would not install a sid killer, make the right one work first. the combination may not work well (not sure) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunshine-x Posted January 23, 2004 Author Share Posted January 23, 2004 do you get this error when you link to one of your pages from a search engine or when you are already at the site? i would not install a sid killer, make the right one work first. the combination may not work well (not sure) I just turned the option on, then went to my site. All pages displayed that error. When turned off, the error goes away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noobish-n-stuff Posted January 23, 2004 Share Posted January 23, 2004 do you have "force cookies" set to false?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunshine-x Posted January 23, 2004 Author Share Posted January 23, 2004 do you have "force cookies" set to false?? Yes, force cookies is false (default). Should it be true?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunshine-x Posted January 23, 2004 Author Share Posted January 23, 2004 do you have "force cookies" set to false?? Yes, force cookies is false (default). Should it be true?? I tried setting force cookies to true while using the search engine friendly urls. It didn't help, same error message on all pages, bottom left. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 23, 2004 Share Posted January 23, 2004 don't use either search friendly URLS option nor the Force cookies. It has nothing to do with SEO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 23, 2004 Share Posted January 23, 2004 I also mentioned to you to use the SID killer this will allow the robots to scan your pages. If the robot scans them now one they may not get indexed or 2 they may get some indexed but with the oscid numbers after it this can and could cause a security breach. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♥ecartz Posted January 23, 2004 Share Posted January 23, 2004 SEF URLs will not help you with Google and the other major search engines. Also, they don't work on all server configurations. I advise against them. Setting Force Cookie Use to true will prevent SIDs from appearing in the URL and is the officially recommended setting. However, you should be able to get the same effect with search engines using Prevent Spider Sessions, if you don't want to force cookie use. Hth, Matt Always back up before making changes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunshine-x Posted January 24, 2004 Author Share Posted January 24, 2004 SEF URLs will not help you with Google and the other major search engines. Also, they don't work on all server configurations. I advise against them. Setting Force Cookie Use to true will prevent SIDs from appearing in the URL and is the officially recommended setting. However, you should be able to get the same effect with search engines using Prevent Spider Sessions, if you don't want to force cookie use. Hth, Matt How would I go about doing that? It sounds like somthing I'll want to do. My goal is an indexable site - ie google etc will be compatible with it, and links search engines return will work for the person doing the searching. Whats the recommended configuration? Thanks, and sorry for all the newbie questions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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