Konakart and Redirects and SEO

[phil097090]

Hi,

This could turn into a long post - I apologise in advance!!

We have an issue with our Konakart installation. We have Konakart installed in Tomcat with Tomcat running on port 8080 in our production environment. We then have apache webserver running on port 80 and forwarding requests to the konakart shop. We were advised to take this configuration because we wanted Wordpress installed on our server so that we could write blogs for our shop.

I dont know if this configuration is the cause of our problem or not but we have problems when the search engine spiders crawl our site. Here is a description of the problem:

When a visitor browses a category URL, like:http://www.golfshopdirect.co.uk/SelectCat.do?catId=39&prodsFound=0&category=Junior our server returns a "302 Temporary Redirect" back to the exact same URL. The first time the page is accessed no content is returned. After the second time it's accessed then the content comes with the page (I verified this with Internet Explorer). Also during this exchange the "JSESSIONID" cookie is reset by our server. The problem is that when the crawler gets this redirect, it sees that it has already visited the URL (because they are identical) and it doesn't visit it again.

This means that none of our product links are added to the search engines. If anyone would like to check that this is indeed the case then they can use this handy URL:


http://www.internetofficer.com/seo-tool/redirect-check/

Has anyone experienced this in the past or got any suggestions as to how we could fix the issue?

Many thanks,

Phil