By Goffeltjie on

Hi,

Please your help would be greatly appreciated!

What is an effective way to strip the session id
from the URL?? (?PHPSESSID)

I have seen a number of fixes,
mostly involving setting cookies, and disabling session ids.

Such as adding the following to .htaccess

php_value session.use_trans_sid 0
php_value session.use_only_cookies 1

However this will block bots from being able to crawl!!
Will it not?

I definitely want my site to be crawlable!

Please please assist.
Listings in the SERPs are bieng duplicated because of the
session ID, and I DO NOT want to be penalized by the SEs.

Please help!

Thanks!

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Goffeltjie’s picture

Goffeltjie commented

Please help! I'm Desperate!

I know this issue has been tackled a number of times in the forum, however nothing relates to crawlability!

Some of my listings are being duplicated in the SERPS
Due to Session IDs.

I REALLY need to nip this in the bud to avoid any penalties for dupe listings!

I have found a few options which are said to fix the PHPSESSID being attached to the URL.
Am extremely worried though, after posting in other SEO forum, regarding the .htaccess
fix, I received a reply warning that this will block Googlebot, since cookies are forced,
and the bot cannot accept cookies.

I desperately need to fix this issue, are there other ways to avoid the PHP session ids, or should I be doing the .htaccess edit ??

I know this issue has been tackled a number of times in the forum, however nothing relates to crawlability!
PLEASE PLEASE HELP - I am at my wits end, it will be greatly appreciated!

Thank you.

jt6919’s picture

jt6919 commented

Can anyone help on this? There is not a single good 'info page on PHPSESSID in 4.7.3 and getting your Drupal site indexed by the search engine crawlers (because they ALL pickup the PHPSESSID)....even the one from Technorati!!

Please help......this is a MAJOR issue for indexing....

Prabhas4u’s picture

Prabhas4u commented

Copy and paste the following code to your php file,

ini_set("url_rewriter.tags","");