https://forums.webwiz.net/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:42:18 +0000 Fri, 21 Sep 2007 08:25:55 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.08 360 https://forums.webwiz.net/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=24176 https://forums.webwiz.net/forum_images/web_wiz_forums.png https://forums.webwiz.net/ https://forums.webwiz.net/configuration-guest-sessions_topic24176_post127894.html#127894 Author: WebWiz-Bruce
Subject: 24176
Posted: 21 September 2007 at 8:25am

Because the forum already detects the Google Bot it does not add a Session ID (SID) on the end of the URL's for Google Bot. So turning this feature on or off will have no effect on the Google Bot.

If you do disable the Session ID's for Guest accounts and the user dose not have cookies enabled the forum will not be able to track the user, this will mean things like searches will not work and a number of other features which I can not recall ofhand.

Adding <meta name="robots" content="index,follow" /> to the header will have no effect as the search engine does this by default. This is only useful if you want to use nofollow or noindex to tell the search engine not to follow or index a page.

Edited by -boRg- - 21 September 2007 at 8:27am]]> Fri, 21 Sep 2007 08:25:55 +0000 https://forums.webwiz.net/configuration-guest-sessions_topic24176_post127894.html#127894 https://forums.webwiz.net/configuration-guest-sessions_topic24176_post127874.html#127874 Author: StarDust
Subject: 24176
Posted: 20 September 2007 at 9:30pm

boRg I am not clear what you said on this topic. Better I ask you some question.

If I turn this on, what impact it will have on google bot?

If I turn this off, what impact it will have on google bot?

-boRg- wrote: When Guests browse the board asession is created for them which is stored as a cookie on theirmachine so the forum can track them and they can use various tools inthe forum.

What do you mean by 'various tools'. Please be descriptive.

-boRg- wrote: The forum does detect if is a search engine and so doesn't place thisSID code on the end of URL's for search engines, however this detectionis 100% accurate for minor not so well known search engines.

I guess you meant it can detect the minor search engines that are not well known 100% accurately as well as the major search engines such as google.

Sorry for my lack of english. But i need to know what impact the forum will have on google bot by turning Guest Sessions off or on.

I have my board up on a subdomain just for few days, and when i do search on google just typing ebizbd, it shows a lot of links from my forum. I want to keep this like it is even to improve the situation.

And what if i add <meta name="robots" content="index,follow" /> in the header?


Edited by StarDust - 20 September 2007 at 9:37pm]]> Thu, 20 Sep 2007 21:30:03 +0000 https://forums.webwiz.net/configuration-guest-sessions_topic24176_post127874.html#127874 https://forums.webwiz.net/configuration-guest-sessions_topic24176_post126557.html#126557 Author: WebWiz-Bruce
Subject: 24176
Posted: 15 August 2007 at 9:12am

When Guests browse the board a session is created for them which is stored as a cookie on their machine so the forum can track them and they can use various tools in the forum.

If cookies are not enabled like for search engines then the session tracking code it appended to the URL in the form of SID=8343647364786ab.

The forum does detect if is a search engine and so doesn't place this SID code on the end of URL's for search engines, however this detection is 100% accurate for minor not so well known search engines.

By turning off Guest Sessions it would guarantee that search engines will not have this SID appended to URL's.

However, I would recommend that you do not turn this feature off.
]]> Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:12:49 +0000 https://forums.webwiz.net/configuration-guest-sessions_topic24176_post126557.html#126557 https://forums.webwiz.net/configuration-guest-sessions_topic24176_post126556.html#126556 Author: longboard
Subject: 24176
Posted: 15 August 2007 at 8:54am

"Guest Sessions:
If this is disabled it could help with Search Engine Indexing, but will mean that Guests will not be able to use many tools and features within the forum."

There is a "Guest Sessions" option in the Forum Configuration page, what it does and what exactly it means?

By the way, this application is awesome. Congratulations.

Regards.

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