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Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / General CF Topics / August 2004GoogleBot and Session Variables
I'm sure this is an old question but I could not find it in the forum archives... I have read that GoogleBot will not index pages using session IDs. Does this include CF pages that use <cfapplication sessionmanagement="yes"? i.e. Will CF session management stop pages from being indexed in Google? If so, I guess the solution is to make my pages that I want indexed be file type .html? Hi, In theory, Google will not index pages that use a URL token to maintain session information. In the case of ColdFusion, this is the CFID and CFTOKEN in the URL. Having said that, if you search for: site:greenpeace.org.uk in Google, you can see that it is indexing pages with these tokens. To be on the safe side (in case they fix that some day) as long as you don't use these tokens you will be indexed by Google, regardless of whether you are using session variables (there isn't really any way of Google knowing). Having said that, Google indexes pages with .html far faster than .cfm. We launched a new web site with many thousands of pages recently. We started off with .cfm file names and google added pages to it's index at a rate of about 100 per day. When we changed to file names ending in .html, this increased to about 2000 per day. Ian |
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