Session ID’s and Google: Part 2
July 20th, 2007
Written By: Adam Sussman
I wrote a couple weeks ago Are PHP Session ID’s A Cause for Duplicate Content with Google?
Following that post I got hit with a few friendly IM’s from some Search Engine Gurus telling me that Google handles Session ID’s well and tends to ignore them.
I just launched a new site the other week and I decided to keep session ID’s on just to see what would happen and today when doing a site:domain.com I see Google has indexed my site with session IDs appended to the URL.
Update: July 22, 2006
I am seeing one of my homepage URL indexed by Google for multiple Session IDs.
October 28th, 2007 13:24
Of course, you could just not give google any sids, but leave them for the rest of the population:
if (strpos($_SERVER[”HTTP_USER_AGENT”],”Googlebot”) === false) {
ini_set(”session.use_trans_sid”,”on”);
ini_set(”session.referer_check”,”www.gudmagazine.com”);
}