Blank Reviews and Google

[Measha06]

I have read somewhere that google doesnt like blank review pages and you should do something so when spidering the bots dont go down the blank pages only go on pages with reviews written but I can refind the posting can anybody direct or advise me?

[♥FWR Media]

I have read somewhere that google doesnt like blank review pages and you should do something so when spidering the bots dont go down the blank pages only go on pages with reviews written but I can refind the posting can anybody direct or advise me?

 

Yeah I saw some post like that recently. Can't remember where, I just use catalog/robots.txt which seems to work .. like ..

 

User-agent: *
Disallow: /ADMINFOLDER/
Disallow: /account.php
Disallow: /advanced_search.php
Disallow: /checkout_shipping.php
Disallow: /create_account.php
Disallow: /cookie_usage.php
Disallow: /login.php
Disallow: /password_forgotten.php
Disallow: /popup_image.php
Disallow: /shopping_cart.php
Disallow: /product_reviews_write.php

 

Obviously you can add as you wish but be CAREFULL!

[Measha06]

Never had a robots.txt file so not sure what to do with it!

 

Can you also verify or deny can you use Ultimate SEO URLs and a google site map xml, I've just been reading that somebody thinks you cant?

 

You are on here nearly as many hours as me and my searching!

 

Liz

[♥GLWalker]

Never had a robots.txt file so not sure what to do with it!

 

Can you also verify or deny can you use Ultimate SEO URLs and a google site map xml, I've just been reading that somebody thinks you cant?

 

You are on here nearly as many hours as me and my searching!

 

Liz

You should do some searching about robots.txt. They are usefull. Theres other ways too, using the headtags, but we wont go there yet.

I use ultimate seo urls and google sitemap. They were both originally wrote by the same person, who, far as I know, made all his code compatable with one another.

[♥FWR Media]

Never had a robots.txt file so not sure what to do with it!

 

Can you also verify or deny can you use Ultimate SEO URLs and a google site map xml, I've just been reading that somebody thinks you cant?

 

You are on here nearly as many hours as me and my searching!

 

Liz

 

 

robots.txt is just a text file in your catalog root called (would you believe it) robots.txt.

 

There is a general agreement between the major search (adhered to by the majors) bots that they view this file before deciding to index your site.

 

Re: site map whoever said you can't doesn't know what they are talking about.

 

Try my files from this post today ..

 

http://www.oscommerce.com/forums/index.php?s=&...t&p=1209708

 

I can't promise that they will work but they are what my sites' google XML is based on .. you can't lose .. submit them to google webmaster tools and it will tell you if they're wrong.

[Measha06]

robots.txt is just a text file in your catalog root called (would you believe it) robots.txt.

 

There is a general agreement between the major search (adhered to by the majors) bots that they view this file before deciding to index your site.

 

Re: site map whoever said you can't doesn't know what they are talking about.

 

Try my files from this post today ..

 

http://www.oscommerce.com/forums/index.php?s=&...t&p=1209708

 

I can't promise that they will work but they are what my sites' google XML is based on .. you can't lose .. submit them to google webmaster tools and it will tell you if they're wrong.

 

Thanks for advice again. I had created an XML file before reading all this and submitted it and it would appear google has used it and not reported any errors but I only have 87 pages indexed out of 500!

[♥FWR Media]

Thanks for advice again. I had created an XML file before reading all this and submitted it and it would appear google has used it and not reported any errors but I only have 87 pages indexed out of 500!

 

Nothing new there tbh. Google takes its time. Pagerank these days is considered a bit of a "nothing" but from my experience it at least ensures "some" depth of indexing. Maybe get some more site related, good anchor text links in. Always helps and never hurts. Perhaps a high quality link into your deeper category links would do the trick.