Hi, just a simple Question:
1.) does Google follow links to Struts actions (ending with .do)? 2.) if so, does it make a difference if the ;jsessionid thing is appended to the URL? Background is that I'm working on a larger site that uses Struts for request processing and content delivery, with most Actions being mere forwards to static HTML and JSP pages. Now, from the logs I can tell the GoogleBot is analyzing the top page "/" (which contains an abundance of additional .do links), but then just goes away. Well, that should not be so. Though we've already searched all other resources available on the web, none of them seems to deal with Struts in particular. So finally, I'm asking that question here. In the meantime, we've already tried suppressing all session information (calling the 'default' Forward action will always open up a session and append the 'jsessionid' to all page links if Cookies are disabled - which is the case with Search Robots - regardless if the JSPs don't require a session, and even though this is explicitly switched off via a <[EMAIL PROTECTED] %> directive stating session="false"; quick solution: write a custom PageAction that just does the same). If anybody here has any experience with this Google problem, I'd really be glad to learn from your knowledge. Or does Google generally follow .do links as well, and something else in the site may probably be wrong? To share some of my thoughts, a countermeasure might be to have Struts also handle requests with a .htm (three letters) ending, thus tricking Google into believing to analyze a static file, though in effect, a Struts Action is invoked. It won't be able to tell, not even when forwarding etc. Static HTML files could retain a .html (4 letters) ending and be delivered and indexed as-is. Or the other way round. I'm not sure if I really like this approach, but still. Suppressing the 'jsessionid' thing on the top page didn't make any difference yet. What are your experiences? -- Chris (SCPJ2) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
