removing session ID for Googlebot ?

[tiendung619299]

php Code:

if($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] != 'Googlebot'){
* * session_start();
* * }

Would this do the trick ?

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1. The only exception I would add to Chris' comment above is to make sure you remove the session id from your url
2. 3 posts - 2 authors - Last post: Jun 2, 2008As objects of this class "represent a session" (javadoc), it seems that I had 116
3. 2) authorizing by cookies - (i leave it to the PHP session manager for the cookie authentication)
4. Session ids are a definite way to make your site invisible
5. If it is a human with a browser, generate a session id

[moneyisall91]

I don't do any sites that do sessions with php, but I'd assume you have to use a regular expression instead of just 'GoogleBot' because they have different version numbers and the "new" one right?



something like !~ /googlebot/i



Just an idea.

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3. The last SEO tip was about removing unused meta tags from your site
4. Word still hasn't yet gotten around to webmasters at some major corporation about the real damage session ids can do to a ranking
5. 3 posts - 2 authorsAnd session logs several months old are not interesting
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8. Before I set the filter to strip the session id out of the url, I tried to remove URL's using webmaster tools but the requests were denied
9. Seems that removing them from view is a good idea, particularly since J2EE session vars are being used
10. If the browser does not have cookies enabled (eg Googlebot), then the session id won't move to the URL

[ts3]

I think preg_match is what you would use in php, (I'm a perl coder not php)



edit: try this?

Code:

if(preg_match("/googlebot/i", $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']) != 1){

    session_start();

    }

More Information:

1. This is different from IE6, where there doesn't seem to be any way of removing session cookies
2. File Format: WAP WML - View as HTMLIn the Robot list, click Googlebot
3. Don't use a parameter named “id=� in a URL for anything other than a session ID
4. If Googlebot requests a page in our store directly it does not have
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7. Googlebot's is "Googlebot", and the other search engines use a similar sort of thing