I have unwanted pages in google index, like products_all

**sash** · 30 Mar 2012, 12:04 AM

Originally Posted by nigelt74

But did it have a robots_example.txt sitting in the root? does seem odd that your builder didn't set the default one though

Yea it did have the example in the root folder, plus a blank one He did help me with lots of things,

But being totally green at this, there has been a million things to learn in a year,

**nigelt74** · 30 Mar 2012, 12:24 AM

You can remove the urls in Webmaster tools, but they should eventually drop off, just remember it can take months for any changes on your site t show in googles index.

as to the robots.txt issue some people don't bother on zencart, having a blank one actually stops 404 errors being generated by the search bots when they look for it, personally I like to have one that gets rid of the pop-ups and the the zen id, as neither of those in my opinion add value to searches.

**sash** · 30 Mar 2012, 12:35 AM

Originally Posted by nigelt74

You can remove the urls in Webmaster tools, but they should eventually drop off, just remember it can take months for any changes on your site t show in googles index.

as to the robots.txt issue some people don't bother on zencart, having a blank one actually stops 404 errors being generated by the search bots when they look for it, personally I like to have one that gets rid of the pop-ups and the the zen id, as neither of those in my opinion add value to searches.

Thanks Nigel, That's Great..

**DrByte** · 30 Mar 2012, 01:19 AM

Um, by default Zen Cart already tells Google not to index the main_page=popup_image pages.

Perhaps whoever "built" your site for you has broken that normal functionality. A link to your site would be helpful.

**sash** · 30 Mar 2012, 02:06 PM

Hi DrByte the url is http://bit.ly/ibqR2D thanks, would appreciate it if the shortened url was kept that way, cheers

**DrByte** · 30 Mar 2012, 05:17 PM

As I suspected, someone has tampered with the /includes/languages/english/YOUR_TEMPLATE_NAME/meta_tags.php file and altered the default values for ROBOTS_PAGES_TO_SKIP
You would also benefit from improvements made in v1.5.0 to canonical URL support, and more. A site upgrade would help that, along with fixing many other bugs.

**sash** · 30 Mar 2012, 06:05 PM

Originally Posted by DrByte

As I suspected, someone has tampered with the /includes/languages/english/YOUR_TEMPLATE_NAME/meta_tags.php file and altered the default values for ROBOTS_PAGES_TO_SKIP
You would also benefit from improvements made in v1.5.0 to canonical URL support, and more. A site upgrade would help that, along with fixing many other bugs.

Thanks for taking a look Dr Byte a site upgrade is something i have looked at but would really need a beginner guide to do it myself, cheers