Can cs-cart use cookies only instead of “?sess_id=8ln3ihv3g5llu5d5vk04vihqf6”
In my case ?sess_id= causes ban in robots.txt this is huge seo problem.
For example if I add something to cart, view cart with enabled ssl, leave cart to some non ssl category ?sess_id= will be attached to all non https url within category pages.
According to
[url]http://www.webconfs.com/15-minute-seo.php[/url]
Session IDs - This is even worse than dynamic URLs. Don’t use session IDs for information that you’d like to be indexed by spiders.
Bans in robots.txt - If indexing of a considerable portion of the site is banned, this is likely to affect the nonbanned part as well because spiders will come less frequently to a “noindex” site.
It should only be associated with “your” session. I.e. you created a cart as an anonymous user. The system tries to allow you to come back to your cart. Hence it keeps your sess_id in a cookie so you can get back to your original cart. It is also used to enable you to add more items to your open cart at a later date. By default, these cart sessions are active for 2 weeks. You can always go to the cart and empty it or you can dump your cookies.
This should have NO impact on SEO whatsoever since the robots never put anything in the cart and would therefore never create the sess_id in the URL.
I’m led to believe that in the next release, added security will be added to match the sess_id to the IP address that created it.
[quote name=‘tbirnseth’]
This should have NO impact on SEO whatsoever since the robots never put anything in the cart and would therefore never create the sess_id in the URL.
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So visit my site
[url]Shopping Cart
Session ID is created even for empty cart on entry, now go to some category and you will see that this id will be attached until you enter product. This is wrong as I understand.
When I went to the url you provided, yes it gernated a sess_id because it is a cart page.
I then deleted everything from the url except your domain name and navigated your site (nice site by the way).
No sess_id was generated.
If you visit the cart then a sess_id will be in every url following so it knows where to stick items. I think if you add the line:
Disallow: /checkout/
to the robots.txt file that you should be okay.
[quote name=‘tbirnseth’]
If you visit the cart then a sess_id will be in every url following so it knows where to stick items. I think if you add the line:
Disallow: /checkout/
to the robots.txt file that you should be okay.[/QUOTE]
Thank you for this. Will try.
[quote name=‘tbirnseth’]
This should have NO impact on SEO whatsoever since the robots never put anything in the cart and would therefore never create the sess_id in the URL.
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I wish you were right.
Check out how many “home pages” of my site google got indexed
“site:www.truebalticamber.com welcome to” type this in to google search.
[url]True Baltic Amber
This is left from 135, how to remove this from serp’s if cs-cart does not gove 404 for it ?