Maybe there's a post on the old sitemaps blog. If that count's as
fresher ... and here is related info from the AdSense team:
https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=20763 <blockquote>
Session IDs can increase the load placed by our crawlers on one's
server due to the manner in which our system indexes pages. We
recommend removing session IDs from your URL to help resolve this
issue.
</blockquote>
And intent from the Webmaster blog "Providing a method for indicating
parameters that should be stripped from a URL during indexing" at
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/06/duplicate-content-... Or just take my word for it, although there's no blue badge assigned
to my posts ;)
Sebastian
On Jul 12, 1:13 pm, Red Cardinal wrote:
> Cheers Sebastian
> I actually got both of those, but I was hoping for something a wee bit
> fresher. Any ideas?
> Rgds, and thanks
> Richard
> On Jul 12, 12:00 pm, Sebastian wrote:
> >http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769
> > <blockquote>
> > Allow search bots to crawl your sites without session IDs or arguments
> > that track their path through the site. These techniques are useful
> > for tracking individual user behavior, but the access pattern of bots
> > is entirely different. Using these techniques may result in incomplete
> > indexing of your site, as bots may not be able to eliminate URLs that
> > look different but actually point to the same page.
> > </blockquote>
> > And many years ago Matt posted on WMW something in the sense of "I'm
> > pretty much against cloaking, but when it comes to session IDs and
> > ugly URL components like that then pleeeeaaaasssee cloak away and
> > don't bother Ms. Googlebot with useless noise".
> > Sebastian
> > On Jul 12, 12:53 pm, Red Cardinal wrote:
> > > Just wondering if anyone has any links to official comment on cloaking
> > > session/tracking IDs?
> > > Need it to justify some changes to a large site that uses tracking IDs
> > > to track campaigns.
> > > Rgds, and thanks in advance to the helpful soul who assists me
> > > Richard
> > > (ps - a blue badge would really be helpful on this)
