hi folks
please help
Several years ago, one of my company's sites was re-designed and the programmer used PHP Session Id's extensively.
This caused some immediate problems as it appears that when Yahoo and some other search engines visit the site they are seeing the different session ID's as duplicate content pages and accordingly are not ranking them well. It sure is affecting some of our rankings.
We have removed all of the session ID code that we could find, but Yahoo and other search engines are still following their old links in the their databases when they crawl the site.
I have heard that a script can be added to the HTACCESS file to check to see if the Session ID is in the URL, and if it is, do a permanent 301 redirect to the same page, but without the Session ID. The thing is, I have no clue if this really works, or how to do it.
help will be appreciated
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