I'm at an odd crossroads here. Up until now, I've kept my application off-limits to search engines. I've used a couple of techniques found on Ben Nadel's blog for giving them short sessions and such. Been working well.
With respect to human users, I've been VERY diligent about using URLSessionFormat to keep session variables across page requests with cookies disabled. Also been working well. So here's my quandary - I now want open up my application to allow search engines to index. However, I've got session variables embedded everywhere in my URLs due to URLSessionFormat()! So what's going to occur is this: the robots will grab all of these URLs, index them, then pass them as hijacked sessions through their results and I won't be able to track new visitors! I just ran across a recent mention by Michael Dinowitz of a technique for setting CFID and CFToken to 1 whenever it's a bot, mentioned here: http://www.anujgakhar.com/2010/01/26/what-is-the-best-way-to-deal-with-spidersbotscrawlers/ Bottom line: how can I make the URLs NOT pass the session management variables when it's a search engine? ---------------------------- Bob Hendren President/CEO ListingWare, Inc. http://www.listingware.com 800-867-4707 bhend...@listingware.com ------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com -------------------------------------------------------------
