Context aware breadcrumbs with php sessions - Will search engines index each variation?
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Some pages on my website appear differently depending on where the user has been, using php sessions.
for example with breadcrumbs:
standard crumb setup:
All Books -> fiction -> Lord Of the Flies
if the visitor has just been on the 'William Golding Page', a session will have been created to say, this visitor is broswing by author, so i would check
if( $_SESSION['browsing by] == 'author' ):
and the breadcrumbs (for the exact same page as before) would now be:
Authors -> William Golding -> Lord Of the Flies
to summarise:
So 1 page exists for each book, but depending where the user has come from, the page will show different breadcrumbs.
the questions:
- Can search engines create my 'browsing by' SESSION?
- Would they index the same page multiple times (for each variation)?
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