Google Adding Strange Directory Name To Site Links

Question

Hi guys,

I have just been asked to find out why a clients website be listed in Google in an interesting way. Some of the links have an extra directory with a (seemingly) random name.

The url. http://www.servicedofficecompany.co.uk/resources/

Is listed by google as. http://www.servicedofficecompany.co.uk/(A(khbmZF83yQEkAAAAZGQ1OThhMmQtNzA4Zi00NmVmLWI4ZDUtMTA4ZmRmYjgzZWVmjkz4KVF6yNl_4UvHnUcR51UunJw1)S(sbkd2nyztm23yk555lbbtgzl))/resources/

This is not happening on all pages but you can see examples by using the below Google query. Anyone got any idea's?

site:servicedofficecompany.co.uk

Cheers

Steve

Answer 1

It seems your site is detecting that googlebot does not support cookies, and is therefore redirecting it to a URL that contains the session ID.

For info on ASP.NET cookieless session support, see e.g. this article

Answer 2

Thanks Jonas, I remeber where I'd seen URLS like that before. More .NET cleverness driving me mad.