Hm, SEO is really a little bit like black science sometimes *g* This (german) article states, that SID cloaking would be ok for google: http://www.trafficmaxx.de/blog/google/gutes-cloaking-schlechtes-cloaking
Some more googling, and here someone seems to confirm this: http://www.webmasterworld.com/cloaking/3201743.htm " I was actually at SMX West and Matt Cutts specifically sa*id* that this is OK" All I can say in our case is that I added this filter several months ago, and I can't see any negative effects so far. greetings, Rüdiger 2008/4/14, Korbinian Bachl - privat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi Rüdiger, > > AFAIK this could lead to some punishment by google, as he browses the site > multiple times using different agents and origin IPs and in case he sees > different behaviours he thinks about cloaking/ prepared content and will act > accordingly to it; > > This is usually noticed after the regular google index refreshes that > happen some times a year - you should keep an eye onto this; > > Best, > > Korbinian > > Rüdiger Schulz schrieb: > > > Hello everybody, > > > > I just want to add my 2 cents to this discussion. > > > > At IndyPhone we too wanted to get rid of jesessionid-URLs in google's > > index. > > Yeah, it would be nice if the google bot would be as clever as the one > > from > > yahoo, and just remove them himself. But he doesn't. > > > > So I implemented a Servlet-Filter which checks the user agent header for > > google bot, and skips the url rewriting just for those clients. As this > > will > > generate lots of new sessions, the filter invalidates the session right > > after the request. Also, if a crawler is doing a request containing a > > jsessionid (which he stored before the filter was implemented), he > > redirects > > the crawler to the same URL, just without the jsessionid parameter. That > > way, the index will be updated for those old URLs. > > > > Now we have almost none of those URLs in google's index. > > > > If anyone is interested in the code, I'd be willing to publish this. As > > it > > is not wicket specific, I could share it with some generic servlet tools > > OS > > project - is there something like that on apache or elsewhere? > > > > But maybe Google is smarter by now, and it is not required anymore? > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- greetings from Berlin, Rüdiger Schulz www.2rue.de www.indyphone.de - Coole Handy Logos einfach selber bauen
