__/ [ z ] on Monday 18 September 2006 19:36 \__
> danish wrote:
>
>
>> What can be done right now so that Google doesn't crawl these session
>> IDs and then store them and want to come back to them? Thanks in
>> advance for your help. BTW, I don't want to disallow all
>> "search_details.php" URLs..
>
> Why not get rid of the session IDs ASAP?
>
> Get rid of session ids with your .htaccess (if using mod_php, I believe),
> or
> with a php.ini file. (i.e., use_only_cookies)
>
> Google allows you to block spidering of dynamic URLs with robots.txt, but I
> don't know if the other search engines obey it. I don't think that would
> work because your normal URLs are dynamic.
In Google's Guidelines for Webmasters they specify a possible substitution of
symbols that avoid replication (maybe ampersand?). But surely, it's not
standardised and requirement from different SE's can differ. That's why, as
you say, it's better to go for a universal solution.
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