[ic] IC and search engines

Stefan Hornburg Racke interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com
Fri Feb 1 20:41:00 2002


Steven Potter <potter@softhome.net> writes:

> I'm sure many of you know that most search engines will not spider sites
> that have ?'s in the URL.  Has anyone tried implementing a setup where IC
> will not assign a unique id until the first item is  placed in the cart?  Or
> any other methods of getting rid of the ? in the URL.
> 
> 
> BTW, this would also be handy for search engines like google who will spider
> sites with ?'s but it caused the problem of everyone entering your site from
> google with have the same ID.

You can drop the ID, but you have to force your users to use cookies.

ScratchDefault mv_no_session_id 1

Ciao
        Racke

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