[quote name=‘JesseLeeStringer’]
Sitemap: Remove the sitemap and readd it - Google is a little retarded when you upgrade the store and it’s part old/new. By removing it you effectively provide a new submission that is crawled from top to bottom - hence the recrawls.[/QUOTE]
Thank you,I’ll do as advised and see what happens. I trust things will start going better. 
[quote name=‘mirnitagl’]
Darius, I have almost the same pages I had before, so are you saying that after 2 years google is finding my pages as dupicates all of the sudden?
[/QUOTE]
Google is improving its criteria why one is better then other every day, some keyword spamming was ignored few years ago now may be punished.
Google indexing problem still not solved. Anyone have idea or suggestion?
I’m sorry to say the problem continues, I have done everything as advised and more. I have uninstall and install again the sitemap add-on. I have cleared cache after every change in my store. I have removed sitemap.xml in my webmaster’s panel and readded it again.
When I finally have it working I wake up the next day to see that it doesn’t anymore and this episode repeats day after day, really, I do not know what to do.
This didn’t happen before.
JesseLeeStringer, please, can you give me another advice or recommendation to fix this? Christmas is around the corner!!!
PM me your Store URL.
[quote name=‘JesseLeeStringer’]PM me your Store URL.[/QUOTE]
Dear JesseLeeStringer, thanks for your response for this problem. We hope the problem can be fixed as soon as possible, So many people meet this problem and waiting for a solution 
[quote name=‘JesseLeeStringer’]PM me your Store URL.[/quote]
[quote name=‘Madaha’]Dear JesseLeeStringer, thanks for your response for this problem. We hope the problem can be fixed as soon as possible, So many people meet this problem and waiting for a solution :([/quote]
I’m not going to waste my time (and yours) posting a solution that won’t work, then having people blast me for it. Case-by-Case basis.
[quote name=‘mirnitagl’]I’m sorry to say the problem continues, I have done everything as advised and more. I have uninstall and install again the sitemap add-on. I have cleared cache after every change in my store. I have removed sitemap.xml in my webmaster’s panel and readded it again.
When I finally have it working I wake up the next day to see that it doesn’t anymore and this episode repeats day after day, really, I do not know what to do.
This didn’t happen before.
JesseLeeStringer, please, can you give me another advice or recommendation to fix this? Christmas is around the corner!!![/quote]
Replace your robots.txt with this:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /skins/
Disallow: /payments/
Disallow: /store_closed.html
Disallow: /core/
Disallow: /lib/
Disallow: /install/
Disallow: /js/
Disallow: /schemas/
- Your sitemap does not currently work because you’ve added the code to htaccess incorrectly: [URL]http://domain.com/[/URL][B]index.php?dispatch=xmlsitemap.view[/B]
Change your menu style to ‘Simple’
Remove ‘Hot Deals’ (too many links)
Remove ‘Google Ads’ (if you need to rely on google ads, why should I buy from you?)
Remove your title entirely - Just use your store name and a keyword or two (better yet, a slogan)
Remove ‘keywords’ entirely - Nobody uses them except to see if someone is keyword spamming - you ARE.
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I could continue however I have other clientele to attend to, you obviously have tried to pack EVERYTHING into your homepage, but paid no attention to your products: http://domain.com/disco-duro-externo-elements-2-tbusb-2.0-negro-es.html
I don’t want to see ‘hot deals’ nor ‘newest products’ nor ‘newest items’ (sidebar) nor ‘popular products’ nor ‘google ads’ nor 30 categories on the sidebar. This is where your customers dislike your site, and google accordingly. - It takes 1.2MB to download your homepage - Time to rethink your strategy.
Thank you so much, I’ll do as advised , well, almost everything . I belive hot deals exist for a reason so why remove it entirely? though I agree that having so many “hot deals” doesn’t help much. I’ll get to work just now.
I hope this also help other having the same kind of problem.
[quote name=‘JesseLeeStringer’]I’m not going to waste my time (and yours) posting a solution that won’t work, then having people blast me for it. Case-by-Case basis.[/QUOTE]
I believe CS-Cart sold many licenses. Case by case will take years.
I have tried to revert back to 2.0.15, but the products I added after upgrade disappeared after I revert back. Is it possible for your team to supply a script for us to revert back to 2.0.15 while keep all the products? For example, a script converts database for 2.1 to 2.0.15. After revert, replace the old database by the new one?
I believe it’s a solution for people like me before you have a universal solution for 2.1. There is no need to work case by case in thi way.
[quote name=‘Madaha’]I believe CS-Cart sold many licenses. Case by case will take years.[/quote]
I’m not CS-Cart - I just moderate spam for a living.
[quote name=‘Madaha’]
I have tried to revert back to 2.0.15, but the products I added after upgrade disappeared after I revert back. Is it possible for your team to supply a script for us to revert back to 2.0.15 while keep all the products? For example, a script converts database for 2.1 to 2.0.15. After revert, replace the old database by the new one?
I believe it’s a solution for people like me before you have a universal solution for 2.1. There is no need to work case by case in thi way.[/quote]
You don’t ‘revert’ you ‘restore a backup’, hence you won’t have your old products, sales etc.
JesseLeeStringer, Just want to say nobody wants to blast you for anything, let alone for giving your opinion. We all know you just try to help and keep this forum spam-free so we all appreciate it.
I personally thank you for your comments and observations about my site, it may seem as if you were “ripping it apart” 
but my site well deserves it. I just hope to be able to improve it little by little.
I have already changed a few things but others I just do not know how:
You said:
[QUOTE]Remove your sitemap from your store and create another one.
- Your sitemap does not currently work because you’ve added the code to htaccess incorrectly: [url]Domain.com
I checked htaccess and did not see that.
I just sent you a PM about this.
I think he probably meant robots.txt. You shouldn’t have to change the rewrites in htaccess. You can use what he noted above or you can also use this if you have SEO enabled:
Sitemap: http://your_domain.com/sitemap.xmlthat is what’s strange, i had it exactly like that at the end of robots.txt
Sitemap: [url]http://mydomain.com/sitemap.xml[/url]
Just as I have it in google webmasters tool, so I wonder where is it hat he saw this:
[url]Domain.com
I do not think he meant robots.txt becasue he also gave me instructions for that, he said clearly “htaccess” so I’ll just wait , I know he’s busy keeping this forum in order so when he gets the chance he’ll stop by here.
RewriteRule ^sitemap\.xml$ ./index.php?dispatch=xmlsitemap.view [L]I understand now. If you have SEO enabled, you do not need that line of code in .htaccess.
[quote name=‘JesseLeeStringer’]RewriteRule ^sitemap\.xml$ ./index.php?dispatch=xmlsitemap.view [L][/QUOTE]
That’s exactly what I find strange, I do not have that line in htaccess. I admit that when I was trying to find a solution to this, I added that line in that file but after reading the explanation in admin /sitemap addon, I removed it since I have seo enabled.
So, how come you still can see a piece of code that was removed 5 minutes after it was 1st added? It is really intriguing, may it have to be with cache?
I didn’t know I where sitemap.xml file really was, I’m sorry, I ignore many things, “the tool” generously told me and now I have gone to var folder and deleted sitemap, as jesseleestringer recomended. i will generate a new one and see what happnens.
And here comes the stupid question of the day 
: is there a way to set up a cronjob in order to clear cache after an update script has been passed?
I explain myself better, I have a cronjob that updates my catalog every night in sincornization with the catalog from my supplier, if I understand something from all this it’s that cache must be cleared everytime there’s a change in store. I’d say removing around 100 products and adding around 80 every night is a significant change. Since I can not wake up extremely early just to clear my store cache , how can I achive this?
Am I the 1st one to have this issue or wonder about this? I hope not.,
[quote name=‘mirnitagl’]I just know one thing, for almost 2 years my cs-cart store was very very well positioned, like i said 20 000 pages indexed, and ever since I upgraded this has gone down the toilet, it is a disaster, so obviously upgrading has killed that seo work.
Why? and most important, How can I fix it?
Darius, I have almost the same pages I had before, so are you saying that after 2 years google is finding my pages as dupicates all of the sudden?
Madaha, are asking if the new cache method is the problem or assuring it is the problem?
Please, can someone throw some light over this. It is a serious issue. If you can’t be found in search engines you just do not exist, your business does not exist.[/QUOTE]
I spent days converting database from 2.1 downgrade to 2.0.15 and successed at last ! But I’m need to reupload images for the products added after upgrade to 2.1. I want to share my experience here.
Before upgrade to 2.1, google indexed almost 95% of the pages, after upgrade to 2.1, google indexed only categories pages. After more days, google only indexed my homepage. I have been looking for solution after thing went down to such bad suitation and all I found is hopeless. I decided to downgrade to 2.0.15 and spent many hours to study the changes made by 2.1. I successed after a few days hard work and went back to 2.0.15 ( original code was there, all I need to do is the database) except reupload all images for the produts added after upgrade to 2.1.
I signed in google webmaster tool and checked the index page after 24 hours I downgraded to 2.0.15. I found 12 pages indexed by google.
My experience is downgrade to 2.0.15 might be the only solution for the google index problem of 2.1.
Google webmaster tool doesn’t say the pages in sitemap.xml not found, nor index the pages. The possible reason might be google crawler finds the pages in sitemap.xml, but the pages are empty for the crawler or the crawler is unable to crawl the pages.
Go back to 2.0.15 !
P.S.
I used another web site convert database back to 2.0.15 for test and confirm. I finished the revert yesterday (about 26 hours ago). I checked google just now and found Google indexed some new pages of the test web site after I reverted back to 2.0.15. That means google index 2.0.15 pages very quickly.
What I want to say is 2.0.15 is really a search engine friendly version !
Madaha, I’m using 2.0.14 and I have the same problem so…should I downgrade to 1.3.5 sp4? With that version my sitemap was ok and google indexed more than 20 000 pages.
Downgrading should not be the solution yet I insist, that I’ve done everything I was adevised and the problem persist…
We are talking 2.1 page index problem here. I don’t have any experience in 1.35 and 2.0.14. I started from 2.0.15. I don’t know how 1.35 and 2.0.14 worked and if downgrade will solve your problem or not. What I said is 2.0.15 is search engine friendly according to my own experience.