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    Posted: 21 August 2006 at 10:38pm

How important are session IDs? What are they used for? It seems to me that with them on a site will never get indexed properly by a search engine as the session ID changes with every user. I would very much like to have my site completely indexed but I can not find any articles here about the repercussions of turning off the session ids.

 

I did find one stating that guests will have a hard time with some services. Does this mean the group "guests" or all users being considered guests in this case and what service will they not be able to use?

 

Any help would be appreciated.

 
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Session ID's are only appended to the URL if cookies are not available.

Web Wiz Forums also detects nearly all search robots from search engines and disables the session ID appended to URL's for search robots.

This means that your site will be indexed by search engines without the appended session ID's.

Google index's this site daily and results from this forum are listed in Google without session ID's. Just today I did a search on Google and posts from this forum came up in the search.


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Thank you for the insight. I appreciate the effort that was put into this software.
 
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