How To Remove ::: ?items_Per_Page=12

Business Marketing & SEO
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Hello Gurus,



Though I use SEO addon, google indexing “www.dominname.com/category.html?items_per_page=12 .

Is there anyway exclude these URL “?items_per_page=12” From Indexing ?





Thanks in advance.

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Disallow: /*?



in robots.txt stops them being crawled,



John

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Thank you John. I am using cs-cart 4.2.2 version. Now my robots.txt is looks as below.



Anyone suggest anything wrong in it?



User-agent:

[b][color=#b22222]Disallow: /?[/color][/b]

Disallow: /images/thumbnails/

Disallow: /app/

Disallow: /design/

Disallow: /js/

Disallow: /var/

Disallow: /store_closed.html

4

looks Ok, though you will probably add more to it as you go. have you just added [color=#B22222]Disallow: /*? or did you put that in at the start[/color]



John

5

Hello john,

I just added after your suggested.



Thank you for your help!

6

Anyone know how to stop URLs like this to be picked up by Google:



[color=#212121][font=Arial, sans-serif][size=3][left]…something?subcats=Y&features_hash=V5890.V5882.V5872.V5879.V5895.V5873[/left][/size][/font][/color]

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[quote name='Onkel_Sid' timestamp='1413369577' post='194232']

Anyone know how to stop URLs like this to be picked up by Google:



[color=#212121][font=Arial, sans-serif][size=3][/color]

[left]…something?subcats=Y&features_hash=V5890.V5882.V5872.V5879.V5895.V5873[/left]

[/size][/font]

[/quote]



Disallow: /*? will prevent crawlers from indexing anything that has ? in the url.

8

Aha. Nice!

9

4.2.3 robots files seems a little bit poor? what do you think? maybe some security issue

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You shouldn't be getting any ?items_per_page=12 unless you have a link for the page index that does NOT have the attribute of 'nofollow'. Standard cs-cart has 'nofollow' attribute set for page index links as well as links to things like login that would end up nowhere for a robot.

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[quote name='tbirnseth' timestamp='1415140680' post='196053']

You shouldn't be getting any ?items_per_page=12 unless you have a link for the page index that does NOT have the attribute of 'nofollow'. Standard cs-cart has 'nofollow' attribute set for page index links as well as links to things like login that would end up nowhere for a robot.

[/quote]



so you are saying this issue is solved with nofollow for categories with ? ,login,wishlist,checkout and so… ??

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But adding [color=#000000]Disallow: /*? to robots.txt can't harm or ?[/color]

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I'm saying you shouldn't have any of those parameters for URL's that come from a robot crawling your site.

You can apply bandaids to symptoms all you want. But finding the root cause solves the problem permanently.

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i had this problem in other version… i don’t think that issue exisist in 4.2.2.



after some thinking about this line [color=#000000][font=arial, verdana, tahoma, sans-serif]Disallow: /? i’m not sure does it have to be formated like this… dos logic from here is ignore everthing what ends with ? should this be [/font][/color][color=#000000][font=arial, verdana, tahoma, sans-serif]Disallow: /?[/font][/color]



[color=#000000][font=arial, verdana, tahoma, sans-serif] my suggestion leave it to cs cart :D[/font][/color]

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[quote name='tbirnseth' timestamp='1415140680' post='196053']

Standard cs-cart has 'nofollow' attribute set for page index links as well as links to things like login that would end up nowhere for a robot.

[/quote]



What does the “'nofollow' attribute set for page index links” look like? Is it int he Robots.txt file or the .htaccess file?



Jack

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Jack, ‘nofollow’ is an value of the ‘rel’ attribute of the anchor tag. I.e.

<br />
<ul class="ty-account-info"><br />
    <li class="ty-account-info__item ty-dropdown-box__item"><a class="ty-account-info__a underlined" href="http://cart4.ez-ms.com/index.php?dispatch=orders.search" rel="nofollow">Orders</a></li><br />
    <li class="ty-account-info__item ty-dropdown-box__item"><a class="ty-account-info__a underlined" href="http://cart4.ez-ms.com/index.php?dispatch=product_features.compare" rel="nofollow">View compare list</a></li>	    <br />
    <li class="ty-account-info__item ty-dropdown-box__item"><a class="ty-account-info__a" href="http://cart4.ez-ms.com/index.php?dispatch=wishlist.view" rel="nofollow">Wish list</a></li><br />
</ul><br />

```<br />
Which is pulled directly off the V4 homepage and tells a robot "don't bother going here, this is not something useful to you".<br />
<br />
You can lookup the 'rel' attribute if you want to know it's ugly and gory details that make no sense to most people.... <img src="upload://b6iczyK1ETUUqRUc4PAkX83GF2O.gif" class="bbc_emoticon" alt=":-)">
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I not convinced that is a good ideea to [color=#b22222]Disallow: /*?[/color]



[color=#b22222]what happen with these links bellow that need to be indexed?[/color]



?dispatch=sitemap.view - this is for sitemap

index.php?dispatch=categories.catalog - for categories etc…

?dispatch=categories.catalog

?dispatch=categories.view&category_id=206

?dispatch=products.view&product_id=30946

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Hey people support and vote that you want seo improvements

import product's seo field with 301-redirection history





http://cscart.uservoice.com/forums/134344-cs-cart/suggestions/6545286-import-product-s-seo-field-with-301-redirection-hi