Thanks, I could try this, but I was kind of hoping for a more general Tomcat solution (if there is one). I know Resin has a 'enable-url-rewriting' flag that you can set in it's config.
I guess the question still is, does anyone definitively know if jsessionid does have negative impact on Google results/rankings? It does seem that Google thinks it is a bad idea. Regards, Simon. On 9/20/06, Filip Hanik - Dev Lists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
couldn't you simply create a HttpServletResponseWrapper object in a filter, this object could overwrite the method that encodes the URL and remove the JSESSIONID from it Filip Simon wrote: > Hi, > > According to the Google "Information for Webmasters" page, it appears > that Google will not index/crawl pages correctly with the JSessionId > appended to the URL, ie.: > http://www.stroke-education.com/product/ProductList.do;jsessionid=A2F6590DAC37E55651060DE6922B972D.tomcat36 > > > The guidelines can be found at: > http://www.google.com/intl/en/webmasters/guidelines.html. The key part > of the page is: > Allow search bots to crawl your sites without session IDs or arguments > that track their path through the site. These techniques are useful > for tracking individual user behavior, but the access pattern of bots > is entirely different. Using these techniques may result in incomplete > indexing of your site, as bots may not be able to eliminate URLs that > look different but actually point to the same page > > Search engine rankings are very important for the site (to sell > products :), and it has not indexed my pages correctly just like it > said it wouldn't in the paragraph above. I have tried adding a > sitemap.xml.gz file to help Google along, but to no avail. > > The question is, is it possible to disable cookieless session tracking > for search engine bots? If so how? If not, is it possible to turn off > cookieless session tracking all together? Yes, unfortunately at the > crux of it, search engine rankings are more important than users with > cookies disabled for this particular site. > > Thanks, and Kind Regards, > Simon. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
