Googlebot is indexing sessionid

[Lucifix]

So far from what I can see your session.php doesn't work right. If I block cookies for your site I get different sessionid after each click - this is wrong.
When I alter user agent to "googlebot" it still attach sessionid which it shouldn't if you did the modifications right.

Guess you were right.

I found out that I get different sessionid because of different URL structure (test it with original 4images gallery - no modifications made). I tried to found out why sessionid doesn't work with such URL structure, but without luck.

My gallery is using these URLs:
http://www.slo-foto.net/modules.php?name=Galerija
http://www.slo-foto.net/modules.php?name=Galerija&file=details&image_id=40880
http://www.slo-foto.net/modules.php?name=Galerija&file=hall_of_fame

Anyone has any idea how does sessions.php work?

[V@no]

can you send me the following files:
index.php
global.php
includes/constants.php
includes/functions.php
includes/page_footer.php
includes/page_header.php
includes/sessions.php
?

[Lucifix]

I think you'll need to install whole php-nuke code, because only with few files it won't work. If you are willing to install it you get get it here:
http://www.nukeresources.com/downloadview-details-943-Nuke_7.6_Patched.html

I attached integrated 4images gallery for PHP-Nuke. I assume that this will take you some time, so no hard feelings from me if you don't do it

How important is sessionsid? If it's not so important maybe I could completely remove it.

[V@no]

I'll see what I can do in about 9 hours

How important is sessionsid? If it's not so important maybe I could completely remove it.

Well, if you trust that all your members have cookies enabled, then you shouldn't worry about it, otherwise these who has blocked cookies will not be able login, or even search on your 4images site, and other features that stores information in session would obviously not work.

Basically new sessionid means 4images creates new session (empty) session and doesn't use data from previous

[V@no]

What can I say, I just installed phpnuke, installed 4images module, finally got them work together, blocked cookies and I got one sessionid that wouldn't change when I was clicking on links.
So, I guess there is something else you've changed either in phpnuke, or in 4images code...

[Lucifix]

Thx, when I come at home I'll install on my computer fresh installation of PHP-Nuke and check it out. Maybe I'll upgrade PHP-Nuke. I didn't mean that there is problem with my version of PHP-Nuke.

Thanks again v@no for you help!

[cpuswe]

You can tell Google to not index sessionid in your robots.txt

This is how mine looks

User-Agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /*?sessionid=
Disallow: /member.php
Disallow: /*.search.htm

http://www.robotstxt.org/
http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=140&page=46

[V@no]

You can tell Google to not index sessionid in your robots.txt

That is probably the best way to do it.

[Lucifix]

Will this dissalow bot to crawl all URL's with session at the end or only remove ?sessionid= at the end of URL?

[AntiNSA2]

Can you tell me what you did and can anyone say the bad things that can result in denying a session Id to robots?

[AntiNSA2]

@Lucifix

... and you use also [MOD] Treat bots as users with less rights ... ?
... both modifications (by martrix and v@no) works perfect together for hiding session IDs for google bots ... !

I am trying to understand... wouldnt this

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I stubled upon an article about the robots.txt file accepting wildcards (or more exact the bots that read robots.txt) I haveŽnt seen any forumpost so...

To keep bots from indexing urls containing sessionind i have added the following to my robots.txt

User-Agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /*?sessionid=

I have tested this against the Google bot via Google sitemaps and it is OK by the tool used.

I am no expert on this and i have just implemented it so the impact on indexing is a bit unclear but for me worth a try...

To read more:

http://www.smart-it-consulting.com/article.htm?node=140&page=46
http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000372.html
http://www.webmasterstalks.com/seo-4-smf/robots-txt-t1040.0.html

If you dont know what robots.txt is, start here: http://www.robotstxt.org/
be better? if not , why?