Our content producer is still testing WCM and while trying to figure out when left-side navigation showed up (and whether that was something we could control, outside of putting every piece of content in a navigation item) he ran into the following:
We are testing WCM and I turned off Cookies with Firefox and received the following message:
Cookies are not enabled.
Unfortunately, it looks like your browser doesn't accept cookies. This site requires the use of cookies.
Please change your browser settings to allow cookies from this site, and try again.
Is there truly no way to run WCM without cookies enabled?
Google's FAQs seem to suggest this is an issue; does anyone have any experience with how Google (and other search bots) work with WCM sites?
Further research from our
Further research from our content producer left him with these conclusions:
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Ok, dug deeper into this. If cookies are disabled, it redirects you to the Cookies Must Be Enabled page. If JavaScript & Cookies are disabled, it doesn’t do that since Javascript is used to do the cookie check. So, it should work for Google since it doesn’t use JS or Cookies. That’s the good news.
Since the navigation is still generated with cookies, the only pages that Google will see a left side navigation for would be the Navigation Items (probably 1% of our current site).
For users, their left side navigation will be determined based on cookies. So, for the Navigation Items (once again, 1%) of the site – we’ll have complete control over the left side navigation and ads that will display for them. Everything else will either render nothing in the sidebars or render a sidebar that matched the previous Navigation Item the user visited (if they did visit one). Anyone coming from a google search or an email will see the blank areas (unless of course it’s a Navigation Item).
The recommendation from iMIS, based on the manual and what I’ve heard was said in the conferences, would be to create a navigation item for every piece of content. In essence, every piece of content would exist as a Content Record and as a Navigation Item that pointed to that Content Record.
I know this is confusing, but let me know and I can attempt to explain it better.
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