Stop Sellerdeck adding '#SID=28' to product page names

[graphicz]

Swift Outer Layout or equivalent

[QUOTE][Paste the script at the bottom, just before </body> tag/QUOTE]

I have it in a test site, Mark has it in a live site, so far so good

[MDN]

I did some research on this and used ChatGPT, the general info was that Google ignored the #SID at the end and provided canonical tags were in place it had no impact on SEO, with that said it is a pain, however I always thought it had to do with keeping track of the shopping cart and logged in customers, especially when customer pricing is in place.

I would double check if removing has any negative affect on the site behavior, though it would be great if this did provide a stable fix.

[graphicz]

It only seems to remove the SID if logged out.

https://www.graphicz.co.uk/sellerdeck/swiftv2/acatalog/Handmade-spa-bath-Rosemary-Soap-49.html

When logged in you get:

https://www.graphicz.co.uk/sellerdeck/swiftv2/cgi/bb000001.pl?PRODUCTPAGE=Handmade-spa-bath-Rosemary-Soap-49.html#SID=11

You do not need logged in pages to be searchable or indexable

It is also just one line of code that can easily be 'BlockIf'd' or removed. It is already conditional on being product page.

[MDN]

Looks ideal!, is it worth in that case trying to add the javascript inside a condition so that its only enabled/active when customers are not logged in? that way it would protect against any Ill affects (if any) when customers are logged in.

[Mantra]

I'm wondering if this is the culprit for the thousands of grey unindexed pages in search console.

I have given up trying to resolve this one - grey non-indexed pages are currently slightly less than green indexed pages so getting a bit better for our site.

I did just check again today and could not find any html pages with #SID in the URL and the majority of alternate page with canonical tags for our site look similar to the screenshot below:



Not sure why the ".../cgi-bin/sh000001.pl..." keeps getting picked up and wondered if this was something indirectly associated with #SID search results?

If I do a quick search on our site this results in ".../cgi-bin/ss000001.pl..." URL!

[graphicz]

is it worth in that case trying to add the javascript inside a condition so that its only enabled/active when customers are not logged in?

You could do that if you ran into issues, best let it be for starters.

Jonathan

[EdHarrison]

Unfortunately I get a coding error in red once I apply but when uploaded it works, done a snapshot backup and no errors show.

Thanks again Jonathan for another brilliant fix.

[graphicz]

Ed:

It's a spurious greyed out error. Switch to IE=Edge in Site Options Layout and the error disappears.

It's because the preview uses the otherwise defunct ie 10

If an error is greyed out and you cannot click on it it is spurious and can be ignored. Switching to Ie Edge in preview proves the point

Jonathan

[EdHarrison]

Thanks Jonathan yes I'm sure you have told me that before