Hi,

According to the Google "Information for Webmasters" page, it appears that Google will not index/crawl pages correctly with the JSessionId appended to the URL, ie.:
http://www.stroke-education.com/product/ProductList.do;jsessionid=A2F6590DAC37E55651060DE6922B972D.tomcat36

The guidelines can be found at: http://www.google.com/intl/en/webmasters/guidelines.html. The key part of the page is: Allow search bots to crawl your sites without session IDs or arguments that track their path through the site. These techniques are useful for tracking individual user behavior, but the access pattern of bots is entirely different. Using these techniques may result in incomplete indexing of your site, as bots may not be able to eliminate URLs that look different but actually point to the same page

Search engine rankings are very important for the site (to sell products :), and it has not indexed my pages correctly just like it said it wouldn't in the paragraph above. I have tried adding a sitemap.xml.gz file to help Google along, but to no avail.

The question is, is it possible to disable cookieless session tracking for search engine bots? If so how? If not, is it possible to turn off cookieless session tracking all together? Yes, unfortunately at the crux of it, search engine rankings are more important than users with cookies disabled for this particular site.

Thanks, and Kind Regards,
Simon.

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