Enable cookies temporary redirect

[JohnBerger]

We have a ton of warnings - over 10 k - that are paths that SEOMOZ is getting redirected to an enable cookies page - but anyone with cookies enabled is not.

Does this matter?

[smarties954]

It's a site/server setting issue.

Basically, web crawlers don't store cookies, and in order to keep a session alive between the client and server, a cookie is needed.

So servers usually redirect the cookieless user to the same page, but will add some kind of unique id in the url in order to track the user and avoid seeing the same user as a new user each time it opens a new page. (in asp.net, this could create a new profile each page a crawler opens)

In your case, it looks like cookieless user are redirect to a specific error page, thus warning users that they probably need to enable cookies..

In your site or server settings (ie web.config in asp.net) you can prevent the server to redirect cookieless users.

You can also write a function that disable the cookieless redirect for robots only.