[Skip to main content](#vessel-content) # Many single item carts created ## - **[bmm01](/forum/user/14439-bmm01 "View bmm01's Profile")** - [![bmm01's Avatar](https://www.hikashop.com/media/kunena/core/svg/person.svg)](/forum/user/14439-bmm01 "View bmm01's Profile") Topic Author - [ Offline](/forum/user/14439-bmm01) Less More - Posts: 107 - Thank you received: 8 - - 9 years 2 months ago [\#276351](#276351) by [bmm01](/forum/user/14439-bmm01 "View bmm01's Profile") *[Many single item carts created](/forum/27-checkout/891589-many-single-item-carts-created#276351 "-- url of the page with the problem -- : midwestmeats.com.au -- HikaShop version -- : 3.1.1 -- Joomla version -- : 3.7.5 -- PHP version -- : 5.6.31 We have just upgraded to Joomla 3.7.5 and HikaShop 3.1.1. Since the upgrade we noticed that there were hundreds of carts with just one item in each. We deleted them but 24 hours later there are now more than 100. The Time Stamps are all very close so it looks like they may be machine generated rather than human (unusual for us to have that many customers all at once!). Could it be a spambot or is it something to do with Google crawling the site? Is it something in the configuration that we can change?")* was created by *[bmm01](/forum/user/14439-bmm01 "View bmm01's Profile")* -- url of the page with the problem -- : [ midwestmeats.com.au](http://midwestmeats.com.au) -- HikaShop version -- : 3.1.1 -- Joomla version -- : 3.7.5 -- PHP version -- : 5.6.31 We have just upgraded to Joomla 3.7.5 and HikaShop 3.1.1. Since the upgrade we noticed that there were hundreds of carts with just one item in each. We deleted them but 24 hours later there are now more than 100. The Time Stamps are all very close so it looks like they may be machine generated rather than human (unusual for us to have that many customers all at once!). Could it be a spambot or is it something to do with Google crawling the site? Is it something in the configuration that we can change? - [ ![hikashop-many-single-carts.JPG](/forum/attachment/39822) ](/forum/attachment/39822 "...ngle-carts.JPG") [ ](/forum/attachment/39822?download=1 "...ngle-carts.JPG") Please [Log in](/login?return=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaGlrYXNob3AuY29tL2ZvcnVtL2NoZWNrb3V0Lzg5MTU4OS1tYW55LXNpbmdsZS1pdGVtLWNhcnRzLWNyZWF0ZWQ/dG1wbD1tYXJrZG93bg==) or [Create an account](/component/users/registration?Itemid=101) to join the conversation. - **[nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile")** - [![nicolas's Avatar](https://www.hikashop.com/media/kunena/avatars/resized/size144/users/avatar63.png)](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") - [ Offline](/forum/user/63-nicolas) Less More - Posts: 86290 - Thank you received: 14267 - - 9 years 2 months ago [\#276504](#276504) by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") Replied by *[nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile")* on topic *[Many single item carts created](/forum/27-checkout/891589-many-single-item-carts-created#276504 "-- url of the page with the problem -- : midwestmeats.com.au -- HikaShop version -- : 3.1.1 -- Joomla version -- : 3.7.5 -- PHP version -- : 5.6.31 We have just upgraded to Joomla 3.7.5 and HikaShop 3.1.1. Since the upgrade we noticed that there were hundreds of carts with just one item in each. We deleted them but 24 hours later there are now more than 100. The Time Stamps are all very close so it looks like they may be machine generated rather than human (unusual for us to have that many customers all at once!). Could it be a spambot or is it something to do with Google crawling the site? Is it something in the configuration that we can change?")* Hi, It's indeed probably just google or some other search engine indexing the add to cart links on your website. Your add to cart links are like that: /category-display/product/updatecart/add-1/cid-XXX where XXX is the id of the product So what you can do is add the folder /category-display/product/updatecart/add-1/ to not allow its indexing in your robots.txt [ tools.seobook.com/robots-txt/](http://tools.seobook.com/robots-txt/) That should help avoid that. The following user(s) said Thank You: [bmm01](/forum/user/14439-bmm01 "View bmm01's Profile") Please [Log in](/login?return=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaGlrYXNob3AuY29tL2ZvcnVtL2NoZWNrb3V0Lzg5MTU4OS1tYW55LXNpbmdsZS1pdGVtLWNhcnRzLWNyZWF0ZWQ/dG1wbD1tYXJrZG93bg==) or [Create an account](/component/users/registration?Itemid=101) to join the conversation. - **[bmm01](/forum/user/14439-bmm01 "View bmm01's Profile")** - [![bmm01's Avatar](https://www.hikashop.com/media/kunena/core/svg/person.svg)](/forum/user/14439-bmm01 "View bmm01's Profile") Topic Author - [ Offline](/forum/user/14439-bmm01) Less More - Posts: 107 - Thank you received: 8 - - 9 years 1 month ago [\#277576](#277576) by [bmm01](/forum/user/14439-bmm01 "View bmm01's Profile") Replied by *[bmm01](/forum/user/14439-bmm01 "View bmm01's Profile")* on topic *[Many single item carts created](/forum/27-checkout/891589-many-single-item-carts-created#277576 "-- url of the page with the problem -- : midwestmeats.com.au -- HikaShop version -- : 3.1.1 -- Joomla version -- : 3.7.5 -- PHP version -- : 5.6.31 We have just upgraded to Joomla 3.7.5 and HikaShop 3.1.1. Since the upgrade we noticed that there were hundreds of carts with just one item in each. We deleted them but 24 hours later there are now more than 100. The Time Stamps are all very close so it looks like they may be machine generated rather than human (unusual for us to have that many customers all at once!). Could it be a spambot or is it something to do with Google crawling the site? Is it something in the configuration that we can change?")* Further to your advice I added the following entries to the robots.txt Disallow: /category-display/product/updatecart/add-1/ Disallow: /hikashop-menu-for-products-listing/product/updatecart/add-1/ However I am still getting a lot of single item carts generated. Can you please suggest any other URLs that should be disallowed or if there is any other reason that could cause these carts. Time stamps are all very close together suggesting a bot of some sort. Thanks for your help Brett Please [Log in](/login?return=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaGlrYXNob3AuY29tL2ZvcnVtL2NoZWNrb3V0Lzg5MTU4OS1tYW55LXNpbmdsZS1pdGVtLWNhcnRzLWNyZWF0ZWQ/dG1wbD1tYXJrZG93bg==) or [Create an account](/component/users/registration?Itemid=101) to join the conversation. - **[kyratn](/forum/user/38342-kyratn "View kyratn's Profile")** - [![kyratn's Avatar](https://www.hikashop.com/media/kunena/avatars/resized/size144/gallery/redswirl.jpg)](/forum/user/38342-kyratn "View kyratn's Profile") - [ Offline](/forum/user/38342-kyratn) Less More - Posts: 1119 - Thank you received: 114 - - [](http://kyra.lt) - 9 years 1 month ago [\#277581](#277581) by [kyratn](/forum/user/38342-kyratn "View kyratn's Profile") Replied by *[kyratn](/forum/user/38342-kyratn "View kyratn's Profile")* on topic *[Many single item carts created](/forum/27-checkout/891589-many-single-item-carts-created#277581 "-- url of the page with the problem -- : midwestmeats.com.au -- HikaShop version -- : 3.1.1 -- Joomla version -- : 3.7.5 -- PHP version -- : 5.6.31 We have just upgraded to Joomla 3.7.5 and HikaShop 3.1.1. Since the upgrade we noticed that there were hundreds of carts with just one item in each. We deleted them but 24 hours later there are now more than 100. The Time Stamps are all very close so it looks like they may be machine generated rather than human (unusual for us to have that many customers all at once!). Could it be a spambot or is it something to do with Google crawling the site? Is it something in the configuration that we can change?")* Hi, I think you should target it better... This should do the trick. Disallow: /*updatecart/add* Kind Regards The following user(s) said Thank You: [bmm01](/forum/user/14439-bmm01 "View bmm01's Profile") Please [Log in](/login?return=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaGlrYXNob3AuY29tL2ZvcnVtL2NoZWNrb3V0Lzg5MTU4OS1tYW55LXNpbmdsZS1pdGVtLWNhcnRzLWNyZWF0ZWQ/dG1wbD1tYXJrZG93bg==) or [Create an account](/component/users/registration?Itemid=101) to join the conversation. - **[bmm01](/forum/user/14439-bmm01 "View bmm01's Profile")** - [![bmm01's Avatar](https://www.hikashop.com/media/kunena/core/svg/person.svg)](/forum/user/14439-bmm01 "View bmm01's Profile") Topic Author - [ Offline](/forum/user/14439-bmm01) Less More - Posts: 107 - Thank you received: 8 - - 9 years 1 month ago [\#277585](#277585) by [bmm01](/forum/user/14439-bmm01 "View bmm01's Profile") Replied by *[bmm01](/forum/user/14439-bmm01 "View bmm01's Profile")* on topic *[Many single item carts created](/forum/27-checkout/891589-many-single-item-carts-created#277585 "-- url of the page with the problem -- : midwestmeats.com.au -- HikaShop version -- : 3.1.1 -- Joomla version -- : 3.7.5 -- PHP version -- : 5.6.31 We have just upgraded to Joomla 3.7.5 and HikaShop 3.1.1. Since the upgrade we noticed that there were hundreds of carts with just one item in each. We deleted them but 24 hours later there are now more than 100. The Time Stamps are all very close so it looks like they may be machine generated rather than human (unusual for us to have that many customers all at once!). Could it be a spambot or is it something to do with Google crawling the site? Is it something in the configuration that we can change?")* Thanks for your help. I will try that. Regards Brett Please [Log in](/login?return=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaGlrYXNob3AuY29tL2ZvcnVtL2NoZWNrb3V0Lzg5MTU4OS1tYW55LXNpbmdsZS1pdGVtLWNhcnRzLWNyZWF0ZWQ/dG1wbD1tYXJrZG93bg==) or [Create an account](/component/users/registration?Itemid=101) to join the conversation. - **[OtenKing1](/forum/user/45848-otenking1 "View OtenKing1's Profile")** - [![OtenKing1's Avatar](https://www.hikashop.com/media/kunena/core/svg/person.svg)](/forum/user/45848-otenking1 "View OtenKing1's Profile") - [ Offline](/forum/user/45848-otenking1) Less More - Posts: 26 - Thank you received: 1 - - 8 years 11 months ago [\#282716](#282716) by [OtenKing1](/forum/user/45848-otenking1 "View OtenKing1's Profile") Replied by *[OtenKing1](/forum/user/45848-otenking1 "View OtenKing1's Profile")* on topic *[Many single item carts created](/forum/27-checkout/891589-many-single-item-carts-created#282716 "-- url of the page with the problem -- : midwestmeats.com.au -- HikaShop version -- : 3.1.1 -- Joomla version -- : 3.7.5 -- PHP version -- : 5.6.31 We have just upgraded to Joomla 3.7.5 and HikaShop 3.1.1. Since the upgrade we noticed that there were hundreds of carts with just one item in each. We deleted them but 24 hours later there are now more than 100. The Time Stamps are all very close so it looks like they may be machine generated rather than human (unusual for us to have that many customers all at once!). Could it be a spambot or is it something to do with Google crawling the site? Is it something in the configuration that we can change?")* Hi, just wondering (since I seem to have the same problem since a couple of days) did this solve the problem? Please [Log in](/login?return=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaGlrYXNob3AuY29tL2ZvcnVtL2NoZWNrb3V0Lzg5MTU4OS1tYW55LXNpbmdsZS1pdGVtLWNhcnRzLWNyZWF0ZWQ/dG1wbD1tYXJrZG93bg==) or [Create an account](/component/users/registration?Itemid=101) to join the conversation. - **[kyratn](/forum/user/38342-kyratn "View kyratn's Profile")** - [![kyratn's Avatar](https://www.hikashop.com/media/kunena/avatars/resized/size144/gallery/redswirl.jpg)](/forum/user/38342-kyratn "View kyratn's Profile") - [ Offline](/forum/user/38342-kyratn) Less More - Posts: 1119 - Thank you received: 114 - - [](http://kyra.lt) - 8 years 11 months ago [\#282725](#282725) by [kyratn](/forum/user/38342-kyratn "View kyratn's Profile") Replied by *[kyratn](/forum/user/38342-kyratn "View kyratn's Profile")* on topic *[Many single item carts created](/forum/27-checkout/891589-many-single-item-carts-created#282725 "-- url of the page with the problem -- : midwestmeats.com.au -- HikaShop version -- : 3.1.1 -- Joomla version -- : 3.7.5 -- PHP version -- : 5.6.31 We have just upgraded to Joomla 3.7.5 and HikaShop 3.1.1. Since the upgrade we noticed that there were hundreds of carts with just one item in each. We deleted them but 24 hours later there are now more than 100. The Time Stamps are all very close so it looks like they may be machine generated rather than human (unusual for us to have that many customers all at once!). Could it be a spambot or is it something to do with Google crawling the site? Is it something in the configuration that we can change?")* Hi, It does work for sure. Just try it. Thanks Please [Log in](/login?return=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaGlrYXNob3AuY29tL2ZvcnVtL2NoZWNrb3V0Lzg5MTU4OS1tYW55LXNpbmdsZS1pdGVtLWNhcnRzLWNyZWF0ZWQ/dG1wbD1tYXJrZG93bg==) or [Create an account](/component/users/registration?Itemid=101) to join the conversation. - **[OtenKing1](/forum/user/45848-otenking1 "View OtenKing1's Profile")** - [![OtenKing1's Avatar](https://www.hikashop.com/media/kunena/core/svg/person.svg)](/forum/user/45848-otenking1 "View OtenKing1's Profile") - [ Offline](/forum/user/45848-otenking1) Less More - Posts: 26 - Thank you received: 1 - - 8 years 11 months ago [\#282726](#282726) by [OtenKing1](/forum/user/45848-otenking1 "View OtenKing1's Profile") Replied by *[OtenKing1](/forum/user/45848-otenking1 "View OtenKing1's Profile")* on topic *[Many single item carts created](/forum/27-checkout/891589-many-single-item-carts-created#282726 "-- url of the page with the problem -- : midwestmeats.com.au -- HikaShop version -- : 3.1.1 -- Joomla version -- : 3.7.5 -- PHP version -- : 5.6.31 We have just upgraded to Joomla 3.7.5 and HikaShop 3.1.1. Since the upgrade we noticed that there were hundreds of carts with just one item in each. We deleted them but 24 hours later there are now more than 100. The Time Stamps are all very close so it looks like they may be machine generated rather than human (unusual for us to have that many customers all at once!). Could it be a spambot or is it something to do with Google crawling the site? Is it something in the configuration that we can change?")* Hi there, I did, but new carts kept coming in still the same. I understand it may take some while before the search engines process this right? 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Since the upgrade we noticed that there were hundreds of carts with just one item in each. We deleted them but 24 hours later there are now more than 100. The Time Stamps are all very close so it looks like they may be machine generated rather than human (unusual for us to have that many customers all at once!). Could it be a spambot or is it something to do with Google crawling the site? Is it something in the configuration that we can change?")* Hi, Well yes. What you could try is manually submit robot file to google via webmasters tool and let them know about it. This should speed up if that is the case...Then just wait for a week and see how it goes. 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Since the upgrade we noticed that there were hundreds of carts with just one item in each. We deleted them but 24 hours later there are now more than 100. The Time Stamps are all very close so it looks like they may be machine generated rather than human (unusual for us to have that many customers all at once!). Could it be a spambot or is it something to do with Google crawling the site? Is it something in the configuration that we can change?")* Another thing you should also check that you have rel="nofollow" attribute in your add to cart buttons. Thanks Please [Log in](/login?return=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaGlrYXNob3AuY29tL2ZvcnVtL2NoZWNrb3V0Lzg5MTU4OS1tYW55LXNpbmdsZS1pdGVtLWNhcnRzLWNyZWF0ZWQ/dG1wbD1tYXJrZG93bg==) or [Create an account](/component/users/registration?Itemid=101) to join the conversation. 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