Re: Shownext on AOL
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 2003
It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 46961
interpreted = N
texte = >>... into every URL in your site (just like you probably put >>&cart=[cart] into every URL) and it will prevent all browsers >>from reloading cached pages in your web site -- forever. > >That's true, but it causes a problem with search engines, just as >having cart=[cart] in the URL. FAST, for example, crawled a site and >thought that each cart number in the URL indicated a unique page, so >it read each one several times.I imagine that this is why some search engines don't even bother to load pages which have parameters appended to the end of the URLs. It wastes their resources to have their bot repetitively visit the same pages again and again ... >When I saw what was happening, I started using cookies instead.I like cookies for identifying shopping carts, but there are two problems with cookies:1- The browser owner can turn them off.2- If the reason for using a cookie is to avoid placing unique values into every URL, then the problem remains that certain browsers (and maybe certain proxy servers such as AOL's) will still cache pages they should not cache, even when
no-cache tags and [setmimeheader] tags are used in an effort to prevent caching.I guess there's no perfect solution ... Sincerely, Kenneth Grome--------------------------------------------------- WebDNA Professional Training and Development Center 175 J. Llorente Street +63 (32) 255-6921 Cebu City, Cebu 6000 kengrome@webdna.net Philippines http://www.webdna.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list
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>>... into every URL in your site (just like you probably put >>&cart=[cart] into every URL) and it will prevent all browsers >>from reloading cached pages in your web site -- forever. > >That's true, but it causes a problem with search engines, just as >having cart=[cart] in the URL. FAST, for example, crawled a site and >thought that each cart number in the URL indicated a unique page, so >it read each one several times.I imagine that this is why some search engines don't even bother to load pages which have parameters appended to the end of the URLs. It wastes their resources to have their bot repetitively visit the same pages again and again ... >When I saw what was happening, I started using cookies instead.I like cookies for identifying shopping carts, but there are two problems with cookies:1- The browser owner can turn them off.2- If the reason for using a cookie is to avoid placing unique values into every URL, then the problem remains that certain browsers (and maybe certain proxy servers such as AOL's) will still cache pages they should not cache, even when no-cache tags and [setmimeheader] tags are used in an effort to prevent caching.I guess there's no perfect solution ... Sincerely, Kenneth Grome--------------------------------------------------- WebDNA Professional Training and Development Center 175 J. Llorente Street +63 (32) 255-6921 Cebu City, Cebu 6000 kengrome@webdna.net Philippines http://www.webdna.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/
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