Google Search Results Display URL

[Guy_Huyett]

Our urls show as www.domain.com/getproduct.aspx?productid=48376 (url #1) in Google search results.

When you click on the link and go to the site the URL is www.domain.com/product-name.aspx (url #2)

I checked in Google Webmaster Tools (Fetch as Google) and there is a 302 redirect from url #1 to url #2.  It also shows a Set-Cookie value, ASP.NET_SessionID=

If we make it a 301 redirect instead, will the url displayed in Google search results be the url #2?

We need to get rid of the Set-Cookie for crawlers correct?

[billhartzer]

Hi Huey,

What I would do is first look in Google to see if they're crawling and indexing all of your products. For example. search Google for this:

site:www.domain.com/getproduct.aspx

With that search you should see your products getting indexed. If not, then there is an issue. I don't recommend that you use any redirects at all, as Google can crawl and index URLs with parameters in them.

That said, you should not be using a 302 redirect as it's only temporary one and Google will NOT change the URL, as they are doing now. If you used a 301 Permanent Redirect Google should then show the full URL.

If at all possible, I recommend getting rid of the session IDs and cookies. If you must have them, then those session IDs should not be in the URLs. I would, though, get rid of them for the search engine crawlers at a minimum.