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chowell
Joined: Oct 12, 2000
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Posted: 09/23/2004 01:12 pm
We have a client that has long URLs for each of their products and also assigns a sessionID to the URL once the visitor adds an item to their cart or visits the shopping cart area.
We know the long URLs a problem and we can also tell from the results in Google & Yahoo that the spider is indexing multiple copies of each page, due to the sessionID.
Can anyone tell me which of these components has a more negative affect on the search engine rankings and our ability to achieve higher ranks?
If you had a choice to fix one or the other, which would it be?
a) Shorter, more search engine friendly URLs (Mod_Rewrite, etc.)
b) Setup backend to detect spider visits & not set sessionID
Any advice, experiences, etc. are appreciated.
Thanks,
Cory
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MakeMeTop
Joined: Jul 05, 2000
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Posted: 09/27/2004 12:39 am
Both have a negative affect but the session IDs can cause more damage IMO.
I would use your option a)
Mod_rewrite has given me very positive results on search engines across the board.
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