Shop spam google listing

Hello,



i ´ve installed the newest version of the shop. And what i see in the Google indexing is terrible!



Google have so many links indexed with currency, but i havent multiple currency activated!



?target=rma¤cy=eur&sl=GR

/?currency=gbp&sl=DE

?currency=eur&sl=ES

?currency=gbp&sl=ES&subcats=Y&features_hash=V7.V34

index.php?target=forms&name=contact_us

sports-and-outdoors/?sl=RU&subcats=Y

/?sef_rewrite=1



and much more not really good seo links. Much links are double, also with double DC.



so i see google have indexed the filters too.



Sorry but that isnt a very good seo solution in the shopsoftware. I cant understand this!



Thanks for comments.



best regards

I am fighting this problem over a month now. I can guaranty you one thing your serp’s will go down! You will be regretting the move to 2x soon.



?target=



is from 135, if 2x would be built the normal way, this would give 404 and removed from google within few weeks.



Such links without disabling them in robots.txt + making some of them as 404 cannot and will not be removed.





Every link you mentioned above is same as extra Domain.com of yours domain, as they all result in showing your home page.



Each such page is counted as duplicate, duplicate content, such punished by google sooner or later…



There is no easy or fast way out of this…





If you have not enabled SSL for your domain, then don’t as you will get in to lot more trouble. Checkout ssl enabled, enables search engine index your site with https at least every third page





Topics I raised with no responds, I gues every one else is happy with current results, for now…



[url]http://forum.cs-cart.com/showthread.php?t=12490[/url]



[url]http://forum.cs-cart.com/showthread.php?t=12413[/url]

i think this is more a bug than other.



The Seo is very important for a shop.



I cant understand that the developer dont do anything in this issue on the fast way to resolve the problem!?



And thank godness that this isnt a real shop on my side. CS-Cart is from the features side very greatfull but this mistake isnt very good

[quote name=‘Triplex’]i think this is more a bug than other.



The Seo is very important for a shop.



I cant understand that the developer dont do anything in this issue on the fast way to resolve the problem!?



And thank godness that this isnt a real shop on my side. CS-Cart is from the features side very greatfull but this mistake isnt very good[/QUOTE]



Bug or not but trust me there is no easy way removing links from google…

Has this issue been reported in the Bug Tracker? It is not going to be fixed if it is not reported.



Bob

Ok it´s done.



[url]http://forum.cs-cart.com/vbugs.php?do=view&vbug_id=1099[/url]



And Darius:



Yes i´ve see your Problem. Here for example

[url]http://www.truebalticamber.com/bracelets/wholesale-amber-bracelets/[/url]

[url]http://www.truebalticamber.com/wholesale-amber-bracelets.html[/url]

twice times same content with different links, or was that your wish?



but the rest of your google listing that i have see isnt very bad, not the position i mean. I mean only the indexing.



i´ve checked on listing with “natural nuggets” on google [url]Natural nuggets - Google Search you are on the first site from over 1,7 Millions results and this only with a tag. That´s not bad.

If you have SEO enabled, put this in your robots.txt:


Disallow: /index.php



Wow, I think I am having deja vu.? Maybe it’s just the other voices in my head again.?

For “target” to appear as 404 add this part of the code:


if (isset($_REQUEST['target'])) {
$status = CONTROLLER_STATUS_NO_PAGE;
$run_controllers = false;
}






below with this one:


if (isset($_REQUEST['sef_rewrite'])) {
$status = CONTROLLER_STATUS_NO_PAGE;
$run_controllers = false;
}






in the “fn.control.php” file located in the “core” directory of your CS-Cart.

Yes Darius, that´s the Problem that i see too!



But i have send it to bugtracker, maybe we must wait .-(

Another problem



Google somehow manages to index features as (search by price for example). In normal way this would look like &features_hash=P12



But I got indexed:



…&features_hash=P12.P24

…&features_hash=P12.P23

…&features_hash=P12.P21

…&features_hash=P12.P22

…&features_hash=P12.P24

…&features_hash=P12.P25



This causes db error.



Support gave me this solution

-------------------

We can offer you to display the 404 page if someone follows this link. In this case please add this part of the code:


if (isset($_REQUEST['features_hash']) && substr_count($_REQUEST['features_hash'],"P")>1) {
$status = CONTROLLER_STATUS_NO_PAGE;
$run_controllers = false;
}




below this one:


if (isset($_REQUEST['sef_rewrite'])) {
$status = CONTROLLER_STATUS_NO_PAGE;
$run_controllers = false;
}






in the “fn.control.php” file located in the “core” directory of your CS-Cart.

Yes, it is O.K. that support have a fast solution for every one request. But i think this must be a solution for a new update, that every shop have this!

[quote name=‘Triplex’]Yes, it is O.K. that support have a fast solution for every one request. But i think this must be a solution for a new update, that every shop have this![/QUOTE]

Exactly. It is great that the individual issues are being addressed quickly but we need a comprehensive solution to address this for all shop owners. No one wants to lose their hard-earned SERPs.



Bob

my SERPs went down, rock bottom down when I switched to 2.0+, traffic went down 60%+, not a happy camper at all, I know it will take time but eventually they will go back up…

[quote name=‘jobosales’]Exactly. It is great that the individual issues are being addressed quickly but we need a comprehensive solution to address this for all shop owners. No one wants to lose their hard-earned SERPs.



Bob[/QUOTE]



I am writing to support about this for some time now, most of the time respondses were it is default functionality, if you need something else we can offer you custom development.

[quote name=‘snorocket’]my SERPs went down, rock bottom down when I switched to 2.0+, traffic went down 60%+, not a happy camper at all, I know it will take time but eventually they will go back up…[/QUOTE]



Can you post your link ?



Noting new here, everybody complains about loosing serp’s on webmaster forum (including me)… 60% of my position loss I suppose is a switch to 2x

[quote name=‘Darius’]I am writing to support about this for some time now, most of the time respondses were it is default functionality, if you need something else we can offer you custom development.[/QUOTE]

Maybe the best thing to do is post a couple of bugs in the Bug Tracker (Triplex has posted bug #1099) and for people to comment with their experiences on those same bug reports. Maybe if the developers see enough complaints about the issue, they will see it for what it is: a serious shortcoming in the cart.



Bob

[quote name=‘Darius’]I am writing to support about this for some time now, most of the time respondses were it is default functionality, if you need something else we can offer you custom development.[/QUOTE]



No sorry, if it´s so what your write i search for a other shopping cart. But if i have a problem last time it wasnt a problem, support have help me fast and good. I think if it a big problem (i am not a developer) then they need a lidle bid time.



But it is very urgent to get a solution for the merchants they have a live shop. I have only a text shop at the moment, but in next 2 weeks i would like to begin with a good shopsoftware and good seo posibility´s in the shopsoftware.

I can tell you this much, since I moved to 2x (~2months) from 2000products I got, categories and so on google has managed index about 15K pages, ~70+% of them are junk, duplicates


[QUOTE]?target=rma¤cy=eur&sl=GR

/?currency=gbp&sl=DE

?currency=eur&sl=ES

?currency=gbp&sl=ES&subcats=Y&features_hash=V7.V34

index.php?target=forms&name=contact_us

sports-and-outdoors/?sl=RU&subcats=Y

/?sef_rewrite=1[/QUOTE]

After removing 12,000 junk urls from google my sites home page is back in google :slight_smile:



Just one problem left.



I need categories be accessed only as



domain.com/category/



but not



domain.com/category.html

If anyone is setting up their store look in to near future “site:demo.cs-cart.com” in google, total mess…



A shop with 120 products generated 3800 links, such shop / products will never be found via search engines…