Product category not displaying products

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11 years 6 months ago #144898

Hi there,

The website search list is appearing on the search engine, but the URL addresses relating to the website is not redirecting to the actual page which have contents/products within them, but once I'd clicked into it to enter the page, it is blank with only the body of the template visible.

The URL address seem to have a mind of its own as the URL has extra codes and words attached to it.

For example:

If I type in google search 'Bio Herbs Direct' - a list of search options to the website URL will be displayed:

- bioherbsdirect.com/index.php/bioherbs-sh...04717dd-1?vote_type=

- bioherbsdirect.com/index.php/men-s-healt...fda8b4d-1?vote_type=

What are the codes above mean???

So a list of category for the website is coming up on the search but the problems occurs for all of them as mentioned above.

I also tried going into the phpMyAdmin to see if there are any bad links, but nothing has come up..

I am very grateful if you can help and advised me in how I can rectify this problem!!!

Many thanks...

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11 years 6 months ago #145044

Hi,

It's strange that google picks up such URLs on your website as these are used by the voting system to send the votes in ajax and thus they are not even displayed on your website as far as I can see.
Normally, it should pickup the main menu items URLs, the product pages URL, etc.
I would recommend to work on the SEO of your website:
- publish a site map of your website with the extension xmap and its HikaShop plugin
- update HikaShop to a more recent version and enter the canonical URL (the URL you want to seein the search results) for each of your products.
- edit your robots.txt file and add remove the pages you don't want to be indexed by search engines thanks to it.
Here is a tutorial on SEO : www.searchenginejournal.com/five-steps-t...url-structure/59813/

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