Disabling session IDs

[DjArcadian]

I was told that by disabling session IDs I will have better luck with search engines spidering my site (namely Google and Inktomi). Is there anyway to do this and how will this effect users of my forums?

THe forum in question is http://www.djshadowforum.com

[Dean C]

You can do this without disabling session id's Take a look at TECK's archive hack or many of the similar one's around which you can find by searching

[DjArcadian]

Yeah, I found Tek's but it doesn't seem to want to work with me. I'm trying to figure out what's wrong.

[Erwin]

If you use vB3, the sessionhash is automatically disabled for Googlebot.

[Zachery]

if you want to remove session ids fastly, just edit the templates, however this could cause problems for some users

[Logtenberg]

Originally Posted by Faranth

if you want to remove session ids fastly, just edit the templates, however this could cause problems for some users

will this also take care of the "logout issue" that we get sometimes? pressing logout and then finding out you are still logged in. especially if your site involves vb and non vb pages?

[Zachery]

Originally Posted by Logtenberg

will this also take care of the "logout issue" that we get sometimes? pressing logout and then finding out you are still logged in. especially if your site involves vb and non vb pages?

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some suers wont even be able to login toyour site if you disable session id

[Logtenberg]

who's left nowadays that dosn't use cookies? Isn't that like a 90's thing?

[Brad]

Originally Posted by Logtenberg

who's left nowadays that dosn't use cookies? Isn't that like a 90's thing?

No alot of users still dont use them because they disable them by choice or browse with a device that dosent have storage. Your best bet is to disable it for googlebot only, there is a hack by filburt1 that will do this