Cookies and bots
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Cookies and bots
Hi guys.
I'm guessing this is the wrong forum to ask this question. If so I sincerely apologize.
I have a question about cookies and bots and how to work around it.
We recently built a site which has a disclaimer page that sets a cookie to enter the site. Unfortunately it seems Google and all the others aren't getting past that page.
Is there an easy way to work around this? The site is built in php. Has anyone run into the same problem and if so, how did you solve it?
I'm guessing this is the wrong forum to ask this question. If so I sincerely apologize.
I have a question about cookies and bots and how to work around it.
We recently built a site which has a disclaimer page that sets a cookie to enter the site. Unfortunately it seems Google and all the others aren't getting past that page.
Is there an easy way to work around this? The site is built in php. Has anyone run into the same problem and if so, how did you solve it?
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Unfortunately the disclaimer has a specific purpose, so it needs to be there.
I think we have taken care of it. According to Google WebMasters site, if you can browse the site in a text browser indexing should be fine. We have fixed the issues at hand and hopefully indexing should be no problem now.
I think we have taken care of it. According to Google WebMasters site, if you can browse the site in a text browser indexing should be fine. We have fixed the issues at hand and hopefully indexing should be no problem now.
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How do you plan on making GoogleBot agree to the disclaimer then?piwanek wrote:Unfortunately the disclaimer has a specific purpose, so it needs to be there.
That, or allow cookie-less browsing. Session ID-s can be propagated in the URLs for example.piwanek wrote:We decided to remove the cookie all together.