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.
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#2
Posted 12 August 2010, 10:04
brettg22, on 10 August 2010, 10:19, said:
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.
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?
#3
Posted 15 August 2010, 13:04
brettg22, on 10 August 2010, 10:19, said:
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.
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.
#4
Posted 15 August 2010, 16:19
altoid, on 15 August 2010, 13:04, said:
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
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
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
#5
Posted 15 August 2010, 18:36
brettg22, on 15 August 2010, 16:19, said:
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.
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.
