Desert Noon Template Support Thread

[hornsales]

Clyde

I redid my website http://www.hornsales.com a few months back. And I decided to use desert noon ver 1.0 as my template. At the same time I installed the SEO URL add on. I changed my directory structure etc. It was a massive overall. Needless to say that meant all the links I had in search engines didn't go to the right place anymore. I didn't just update an old install I did a fresh install of zen cart ver 1.3.9.

But I noticed that even after months of submitting sitemaps and making sure robots.txt was correct. Search engines were not showing any links what so ever to my website. For some reason I decided to do View Source on one of my product pages and was astonished to see a
meta tag Robots NOINDEX NOFOLLOW.

Which meant even though the search engines were visiting my site that page was not being indexed. SO I checked a few more products and the same thing was on every page.

SO it had to be global. After checking several files I found the culprit

/includes/templates/desertnoon/common/html_header.php

That line was in there. As soon as I deleted it. Poof all my pages no longer had the meta tag for robots on it. So I checked my original files and the line is in my orginal files for ver 1 of desert noon. And I downloaded the newest version and the line is slightly different in the new version, but appears it will do the same thing.

Is this intentional on your part or is it possible something is wrong with my install that is misinterpreting that command line. Because it seems to me that the command line you have in that file is to only tell the robots not to index certain pages like order total etc.

[clydejones]

Clyde

I redid my website http://www.hornsales.com a few months back. And I decided to use desert noon ver 1.0 as my template. At the same time I installed the SEO URL add on. I changed my directory structure etc. It was a massive overall. Needless to say that meant all the links I had in search engines didn't go to the right place anymore. I didn't just update an old install I did a fresh install of zen cart ver 1.3.9.

But I noticed that even after months of submitting sitemaps and making sure robots.txt was correct. Search engines were not showing any links what so ever to my website. For some reason I decided to do View Source on one of my product pages and was astonished to see a
meta tag Robots NOINDEX NOFOLLOW.

Which meant even though the search engines were visiting my site that page was not being indexed. SO I checked a few more products and the same thing was on every page.

SO it had to be global. After checking several files I found the culprit

/includes/templates/desertnoon/common/html_header.php

That line was in there. As soon as I deleted it. Poof all my pages no longer had the meta tag for robots on it. So I checked my original files and the line is in my orginal files for ver 1 of desert noon. And I downloaded the newest version and the line is slightly different in the new version, but appears it will do the same thing.

Is this intentional on your part or is it possible something is wrong with my install that is misinterpreting that command line. Because it seems to me that the command line you have in that file is to only tell the robots not to index certain pages like order total etc.

<?php if (defined('ROBOTS_PAGES_TO_SKIP') && in_array($current_page_base,explode(",",constant('ROBOTS_PAGES_TO_SKIP'))) || $current_page_base=='down_for_maintenance') { ?>
<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow" />
<?php } ?>

This is the default for ZC and will not index any page in this list:

define('ROBOTS_PAGES_TO_SKIP','login,logoff,create_account,account,account_edit,account_history,account_history_info,account_newsletters,account_notifications,account_password,address_book,advanced_search,advanced_search_result,checkout_success,checkout_process,checkout_shipping,checkout_payment,checkout_confirmation,cookie_usage,create_account_success,contact_us,download,download_timeout,customers_authorization,down_for_maintenance,password_forgotten,time_out,unsubscribe,info_shopping_cart,popup_image,popup_image_additional,product_reviews_write,ssl_check');