Hi, I've seen this discussed before but looking through the docs can't figure out how to implement it. The idea is that since over 99% of people have cookies turned on then why not just require cookies for everyone to avoid the ?id= stuff in URLs. The major advantages are that the URLs look nicer, will show up with the correct PageRank in the google toolbar and of course the search engines will never see the ?id=. Now I know your're thinking that the RobotUA solves this. While it's a beautiful feature it doesn't totally solve this problem. For one thing sometimes people copy a url from the browser window and place the link to your site with the ?id= in the url. The search engine will now index 2 identical pages, the one with and the one without (and possibly more with different ?id= in them). This sort of thing can get you into trouble with the search engines. Also, sometimes spiders will check for cloaking by spidering without their standard useragent (or at least I'm paranoid enough to think so) ... in this case they might get the ?id= stuff. Doing a search on Google with site:www.mysite.com -asdlfkj I can see that googlebot does indeed pick up some of my pages with the ?id=, even though I use RobotUA and RobotIP. So is there some way to set a variable in catalog.cfg or interchange.cfg to turn uff ?id= (and mv_pc= while we're at it..)? Tried: ScratchDefault mv_no_session_id 1 ScratchDefault mv_no_count 1 ScratchDefault mv_tmp_session 1 in catalog.cfg but that seems to have no effect. Thanks! Bryan p.s. If you've read this far here's a tidbit in case you haven't heard Make sure to set up a 301 redirect from your non-www domain to your www domain. I.e. in your .hatccess file in your web directory put: Redirect 301 http://mysite.com/ http://www.mysite.com/ This will help you avoid being the victim of a google bug called the SLOW DEATH whereby all of your pages slowly disappear for 'no apparent reason'. _______________________________________________ interchange-users mailing list suppressed http://www.icdevgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/interchange-users
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