Does anyone have any feedback on how cookies and A/B testing can affect the spidering/index process? Our company site is going to be implementing functionality that will give different paths based off the user's cookie. The user will be seeing specific html pages on this path. Does anybody know what sort of ramifications this will have on search?

Thank you.

Presumably, the A/B logic will give users without a cookie one page or the other; this is what spiders will see.

Certainly, the code ought to allow for the possibility of a user not accepting cookies. If you have a preferred set of pages for search purposes, be sure they come up for the "no cookie" condition.

When the code is in place, test it with Xenu or other simple spidering program to make sure everything is consistent.

cool. thanks!