using sessions bad for SEO?
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using sessions bad for SEO?
Working on a new SEO campaign I am. To know if using sessions (or even cookies) for each visit will inihibit my rankings I want.
Any light you can shed, I will appreciate.
Any light you can shed, I will appreciate.
talking like yoda definately will not help in any situation.
Although I love your avatar... first time I saw it I laughed out loud and it's hard to get me to laugh out loud at an image.
Although I love your avatar... first time I saw it I laughed out loud and it's hard to get me to laugh out loud at an image.
Last edited by Luke on Wed Dec 07, 2005 1:49 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Re: using sessions bad for SEO?
I'll go out on a limb, and say it can.Burrito wrote:Working on a new SEO campaign I am. To know if using sessions (or even cookies) for each visit will inihibit my rankings I want.
Any light you can shed, I will appreciate.
However, the devil is in the details. First, whats the implementation? If you are hiding the majority of a site contents behind a (session-based?) login, then clearly, the spider won't see those pages. Also, are you passing sid in the url? Some search engines have issues with pages that do. (very few these days, thankfully)
As a general statement, most of the search engines with most of the visitors handle cookies and sessions just fine, and even understand the SID in the url issue. As long as you make a reasonable effort to make the sessions transparent, you shouldn't take much of an SEO hit at all.
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