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Looking for a fix for the PrestaShop platform

Look for the definitive answer on how to best stop the indexing of PrestaShop modules such as "send to a friend", "Best Sellers" and site search pages.

We want to be able to add a meta noindex ()to pages ending in:

/search?tag=ball&p=15 or /modules/sendtoafriend/sendtoafriend-form.php

We already have in the robot text:

Disallow: /search.php
Disallow: /modules/

(Google seems to ignore these)

But as a further tool we would like to incude the noindex to all these pages too to stop duplicated pages. I assume this needs to be in either the head.tpl or the .php file of each PrestaShop module.?

Or is there a general site wide code fix to put in the metadata to apply' Noindex Meta' to certain files.

Current meta code here:

Please reply with where to add code and what the code should be.

Thanks in advance.

Hi Devin,

many thanks for your reply. It does very much sense of what you are saying and you are right most competitors don't even have widgets in title. Good example Google is google not best search results.com

I think I might go for it because it will bug me for years if I dont change it because all the long tails is all plural...ie cheap blue widgets rather then blue widget....

Is there an alternative to 301 what I planned to do is redirect each product to the new product so done correctly or is there a better way..

Many thanks again

thanks for taking the time to reply. All my links are plural after six months I found the error in my thinking...I just think if its a redirect so widget-a redirects widgets-a in the long term it will be better. Thanks again for your reply.

Hi,

I have an established ecommerce site online since 2008 when I set it up I did not really think about it and i called it mywidget. However the traffic is minimum 10 times higher for plural and all the long tails ie bluewidgets, cheapwidgets are all plural.

I rank very well on the widget but not widgets - I know there is more competition but still it would be best to have the most commonly used phrases in the url.

Now I have registered mywidgets should i transfer my shop to mywidgets and setup a permanen redirect 301 for all the  products url and categories.

I'm guessing I will be negatively impacted in the short term but in the long term it should be worth it. Would you agree sorry its a massive decision for me and any help would be much appreciated.

Many thanks

Dear Sha,

many thanks for your reply - great answer! Just a small follow on question. I also have brand option so say a visitor a customer click on gucci logo all the gucci products come up. Now the first page I can create my own title so it would say gucci shop ... however all follow on pages have the same title. In effect its the same products alredy indexed would you recommend that I also do a no index on this option as well. So basically, only have the products and the categories indexed? Many thanks for your time Sonja ps we do not stock gucci : @ )

Google indexes alll our internetal searches: search box is brand - clothes types - size type - and for each page it creates a page that which creates duplicate page title and unnecessary content. Should I do a nofollow on the advance search or a no index. Many thanks for the info. Sonja

Hi Marcus,

thanks a lot for that Marcus...off to read that article...

Have a good day and kind regards

Sonja

Hi, we have a fashion shop and we try to keep the page title as unique as possible. However google also indexes the search so the say search for brand gucci - type - dress - size 8 - then  it indexes it with the homepage title rather then what the searched for. Should I block google from indexing search variation (because there could be thousand of variations) or is there a module that would use the search as a page title so gucci dress 8 for example. Many thanks for your time.

Hi, many thanks for taking the time to reply. No, its the same product but two pages so the original product with the rubbish url title and then another with the clean url title but both have the same canolocial link ref. Sorry hope that makes it clearer. with many thanks sonja

Hi Guys,

many thanks for answering so quickly. Gianluca what you say make absolute sense to me I thought it was strange that 120 links is a real problem but I think I did not make it clear enough of what I want to do  - I would never want to delete the pictures. Imagine a shopping site on our site there is a product picture a customer can click on that to get to the product - then there is the the title underneath..that is also clickable....and then it says details also a link to the product so I'm thinking of removing the detail link and leaving the rest - Hope that makes sense

Dru many thanks for your response - I though you were right about the breadcrumb but to be honest I really dont understand the canonical url issue and I read that it should not be used too much. I have another question open about this issue so I really dont want to add more. But thanks anyway for taking time to reply.

kind regards

Sonja