: Session ID Creating 404 Errors Problem: Website contains URLs with parameters Session ID gets inserted into URLs when Googlebot crawls page with parameter (sorting) options Session ID is created

@Megan663

Posted in: #Googlebot #GoogleSearchConsole #UrlParameters

Problem:


Website contains URLs with parameters
Session ID gets inserted into URLs when Googlebot crawls page with parameter (sorting) options
Session ID is created and then expires, creating a 404 in Google WMT
*I am unable to remove session IDs in URLs given the circumstances in the workplace


Example URL:

example.com/category/product/;jsessionid=+03NVNOPUryFcZ0c169r8txU.prod-14?f=p%3A0-10%2C2000-2500%2C25-50%2C400-500%2C50-75%2C500-750;r%3A0%2C4

Parameter Functions:


f=p: price
r: rating
p=: pagination


Webmaster Tool Configuration:


f defined as parameter that narrows - no urls should be crawled
p defined as parameter that paginates - let Googlebot decide
jsessionid defined as parameter that is a representative url - no urls getting picked up by WMT


Questions:


If no URLs are to be crawled containing f parameter, why are they still getting crawled?
Regarding question 1, is it because the p parameter is overriding?
Should I set the jsessionid parameter as ";jsessionid" instead of "jsessionid"?

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