Perhaps a splash page, loaded with metatags, titles etc in conjunction with a
robots.txt?
This page could also be used to test for javascript and cookies. Using a form
to enter the shop, with POST would keep sid out of site (haha)
At 04:23 09/01/01 , you wrote:
>OK, here's the scoop on indexing FreeEnergy pages. Yes, search engines
>traditionally have rules for not following links with question marks in
>them. So, a FreeTrade won't be indexed, except for the root document.
>Google appears not to have this rule.
>
>And, as Chuck pointed out, there is a danger to having those dynamic pages
>indexed, especially if they have SID in them. You're likely to have
>customers entering your store to a page with an "invalid item" message.
>
>There is a way to work around this problem, but it will take some tweaking
>of index.php. You can write your own routines to pull varaibles from the
>request path and just not use a question mark. But as Paul points out,
>there are many places in the 1.x codebase that send GET requests directly.
>So, you'd have to find all of them. In the 2.x codebase everything is
>generated from functions, so you'd only have to tweak the functions.
>
>Ultimately, if you want to pursue this path, you'll have to get really
>tricky and add code that detects when a page is being requested by a robot
>and suppress sending SID in the URLs. That way you won't get endlessly
>unique SIDs stored forever in the search engine.
>
>BTW, there's another issue associated with this: running an analysis on the
>Web server logs. Those same URLs really mess with the analyzers. I solved
>that problem by creating a custom log and using apache_note() to send a
>phony path to the custom log. It's a simple bit of code, but fairly complex
>to describe in an email. I'll put it on my list of things to write about
>when I have time.
>
>Leon
>
>
>
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