WebDev22 Posted August 10, 2010 Share Posted August 10, 2010 We're in the process of building a new site and noticed when going to site that many of the links point to the image only. Is this normal? We have 1,040 pages indexed and this is the case with most of the links I checked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adulti Posted August 12, 2010 Share Posted August 12, 2010 We're in the process of building a new site and noticed when going to site that many of the links point to the image only. Is this normal? We have 1,040 pages indexed and this is the case with most of the links I checked. We have the same problem, this creates many pages with the same title and meta tags, i think this is because images are having their own pages. We'd better make these pages non-indexable or add nofollow. I have not trying to do this before, cause i'm afraid it may affect our rankings. Anybody test it before? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♥altoid Posted August 15, 2010 Share Posted August 15, 2010 We're in the process of building a new site and noticed when going to site that many of the links point to the image only. Is this normal? We have 1,040 pages indexed and this is the case with most of the links I checked. If those pages are the result of pop up images, you can tell the good web crawlers to not go there via the robots file in robots.txt you'd have something like User-agent: * Disallow: /popup_image.php How you write that would depend on where your store reside in your directory, for example: 'http://www.yoursite.com/index.php' (this is my structure) versus 'http://www.yoursite.com/catalog/index.php. <- Use if this brings up your OSC main page I am not a professional webmaster or PHP coder by background or training but I will try to help as best I can. I remember what it was like when I first started with osC. It can be overwhelming. However, I strongly recommend considering hiring a professional for extensive site modifications, site cleaning, etc. There are several good pros here on osCommerce. Look around, you'll figure out who they are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WebDev22 Posted August 15, 2010 Author Share Posted August 15, 2010 If those pages are the result of pop up images, you can tell the good web crawlers to not go there via the robots file in robots.txt you'd have something like User-agent: * Disallow: /popup_image.php How you write that would depend on where your store reside in your directory, for example: 'http://www.yoursite.com/index.php' (this is my structure) versus 'http://www.yoursite.com/catalog/index.php. <- Use if this brings up your OSC main page If it's not hurting anything, I wonder if I should just leave it alone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♥altoid Posted August 15, 2010 Share Posted August 15, 2010 If it's not hurting anything, I wonder if I should just leave it alone. I think it's worth it. All the duplicates in google due to the pop images disappearted after I installed this. Here's an add on that deals with robots I am not a professional webmaster or PHP coder by background or training but I will try to help as best I can. I remember what it was like when I first started with osC. It can be overwhelming. However, I strongly recommend considering hiring a professional for extensive site modifications, site cleaning, etc. There are several good pros here on osCommerce. Look around, you'll figure out who they are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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