[Jon]

Originally Posted by ecollier2012

CDSEO Version 1.8.3
Xcart 4.2.1

Is this normal or not? After installing CDSEO we are seeing a huge increase in errors on google webmaster tools. Given all their recent changes and penalizing sites with errors we are extra sensitive to these errors. So we need to know if something is broken in CDSEO or if this is normal.

Issue #1 ) Google now reports over 5K of blocked URL's from the new CDSEO robots.txt below

User-agent: *
Disallow: /administrator/
Disallow: /cache/
Disallow: /components/
Disallow: /images/
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /installation/
Disallow: /language/
Disallow: /libraries/
Disallow: /media/
Disallow: /modules/
Disallow: /plugins/
Disallow: /templates/
Disallow: /tmp/
Disallow: /xmlrpc/
Disallow: /xcart/*printable=Y
Disallow: /xcart/*js=*
Disallow: /xcart/*sort=*
Disallow: /xcart/*sort_direction=*
Disallow: /xcart/product.php*
Disallow: /xcart/home.php?cat=*
Disallow: /xcart/catalog/
Disallow: /xcart/search.php
Disallow: /xcart/cart.php
Disallow: /xcart/help.php
Disallow: /xcart/giftcert.php
Disallow: /xcart/product.php
Disallow: /xcart/orders.php
Disallow: /xcart/register.php
Disallow: /xcart/icon.php
Disallow: /xcart/image.php
Disallow: /xcart/error_message.php
Disallow: /xcart/offers.php
Disallow: /xcart/product_image.php
Sitemap: http://www.tvrepairkits.com/xcart/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: http://www.tvrepairkits.com/xcart/sitemap.xml.gz


Issue #2) Category files not indexed...

http://www.tvrepairkits.com/xcart/home.php?cat=2959 reports that its "Denied by robots.txt" - We suspect this is to prevent duplicate content...but wanted to check.

Issue #3 ) Duplicate Content - Google tools is still reporting over 4K of Duplicate meta descriptions, Duplicate Title Tags

Issue #4) Sitemap has over 7K of entries but Google has not indexed above 3900 pages in over a week....

After CDSEO is installed it is normal to have a LOT of blocked pages, since x-cart by default has at least 5-6 - usually a lot more - urls per item.

Since you just installed you want home.php and product.php to 301 redirect, so remove these two lines from robots.txt until after your site is fully reindexed:

Disallow: /xcart/product.php*
Disallow: /xcart/home.php?cat=*

CDSEO will 301 redirect those and let Google know to update those links in their database, which also addresses item #2.

Do the above change to robots.txt, submit a sitemap frequently, and in 2-3 weeks you should see your reindexing complete.

With regard to duplicate meta tags, you'll want to look at those and customize them in your CDSEO admin section.