[ic] IC and search engines

[sphen boyle]

has anyone figured out a way to trick search engines into ranking the 
interchange pages?  looking at past logs, we used to get a lot of people 
finding us at google and other search engines, and ever since we started 
using interchange, our orders have gone down and our rankings have 
disappeared.  i would think that this would be a very important issue 
regarding interchange.  any ideas would be great.

-sphen

On Friday, February 1, 2002, at 08:40  PM, Stefan Hornburg (Racke) wrote:

> 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
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