Hi Simon, There is a debate about this topic and there are a few threads on this, in the archive.
While it is true for some that the jsessionid appears in the URL, it's not happening in my case and I don't have a clear explaination as to why. But if you are unable to remove jsessionid from the URL, like many have suggested you can implement a filter or use one that's already there to remove the jsessionid. You might find these useful: http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=t&ie=UTF-8&rls=HPIB,HPIB:2005-19,HPIB:en&q=urlrewritefilter+jsessionid I didn't have to do anything special to make the jsessionid not appear but, my application doesn't use Struts or other MVC frameworks. All search engine bots including Googlebot don't show URLs with jesessionid after verifying this in Tomcat's server log. At present, it's very simple. Just a few JSPs with JSTL. Each page only sets the session. jsessionid seems to appear only for some, for those URLs/Pages that read stuff from the session object. and not for those that set stuff into session objects or not use session. Some have also suggested not using sessions in jsp pages if you don't really need them. -Rashmi ----- Original Message ---- From: Simon Pink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Mailing List (users@tomcat.apache.org)" <users@tomcat.apache.org> Sent: Wednesday, December 6, 2006 5:53:53 PM Subject: JSessionId and Google Hi there, It is well noted by Google (and other search engines) that they do not like session tracking info as part of the URL. This does include JSessionId, and because Google visits your site as a cookieless user, every page indexed by them includes JSessionId, this is bad for numerous reasons - but the main reason is that Google may think you are cheating, as they are indexing the same page multiple times and it adversely effects your ranking. It is annoying as Tomcat deals with the URL according to standards, It seems to be everything else which doesn't. To be more precise, it is the ';' in the URL which servers such as Apache, and search engines and spiders like Google don't like much at all. By all rights Google should ignore the session id but it doesn't. Anyway, how do I turn this cookie-less tracking off for Tomcat? I would rather have better ranking (and not be banned) than have a minor percent of customers not being able to use my site. Or is there another solution that I have missed here? Kind Regards, Simon. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ____________________________________________________________________________________ Want to start your own business? Learn how on Yahoo! Small Business. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/r-index --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
