Comments on: Are You Flushing Your SEO Down The Drain? http://www.getelastic.com/are-you-flushing-your-seo-down-the-drain/ #1 Subscribed Ecommerce Blog Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:57:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Alan Perkinshttp://www.getelastic.com/are-you-flushing-your-seo-down-the-drain/comment-page-1/#comment-43080 Alan Perkins Mon, 17 Jan 2011 16:08:32 +0000 http://www.getelastic.com/?p=5423#comment-43080 Synchronium, many websites don't use session IDs in the URL when cookie support is available, but DO use them when it isn't. Since cookie support relies on the client (browser), and search engine spiders don't support cookies, in those circumstances spiders get to see session IDs in URLs when regular users don't. This is what causes the trouble! I highly recommend using cookies, but it's what happens when cookie support isn't available that you have to concern yourself with, and Linda's article gives some useful tips on that. Synchronium, many websites don’t use session IDs in the URL when cookie support is available, but DO use them when it isn’t.

Since cookie support relies on the client (browser), and search engine spiders don’t support cookies, in those circumstances spiders get to see session IDs in URLs when regular users don’t. This is what causes the trouble!

I highly recommend using cookies, but it’s what happens when cookie support isn’t available that you have to concern yourself with, and Linda’s article gives some useful tips on that.

]]> By: Chrishttp://www.getelastic.com/are-you-flushing-your-seo-down-the-drain/comment-page-1/#comment-19941 Chris Sun, 27 Dec 2009 14:58:20 +0000 http://www.getelastic.com/?p=5423#comment-19941 Excellent point.There are so many websites with the same issue. I had the same problem but now is solved :) Excellent point.There are so many websites with the same issue. I had the same problem but now is solved :)

]]> By: Synchroniumhttp://www.getelastic.com/are-you-flushing-your-seo-down-the-drain/comment-page-1/#comment-19939 Synchronium Wed, 23 Dec 2009 23:12:40 +0000 http://www.getelastic.com/?p=5423#comment-19939 There's no need to append session id parameters to a URL anyway when you can use cookies. There’s no need to append session id parameters to a URL anyway when you can use cookies.

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