i m about to create a sitemap for my forum, many people said search engines ignore crawling over urls with php session ids. so i thought of removing them while creating a sitemap.
found this recommendation.
1. In .htaccess add following lines:
#removing phpSESSid from URL
php_value session.use_only_cookies 1
php_value session.use_trans_sid 0
You will stil use session ids but they will not be vissible in URLs.
2.If you have URLs containing phpSESSid already indexed, add to the .htaccess:
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^phpSESSid=.*$
RewriteRule .* %{REQUEST_URI}? [R=301,L]
After appying this two thigs Now I have about 1300 indexed URLs containing phpSESSid.
will the above said code help me to create sitemaps without phpsessionid for smf. plz help.
i solved this myself. thanks everyone