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Cliff
#1 Posted : Sunday, February 11, 2007 7:19:54 PM(UTC)
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A merchant has the category list on the My Account pages, which are secure. Hovering over the links show the correct rewritten URL in the browser's info bar, but when clicked the browser redirects back to HTTP and shows:

domain.com/bvmodules/categorytemplates/sub%20category/category.aspx?categoryid=dfdc4e6b-c943-4dcb-912c-d19cca8c6dad

Not so purdy.
Cliff
#2 Posted : Wednesday, March 7, 2007 9:07:35 AM(UTC)
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Just confirming this again, looks like it will happen for any URL that has been rewritten, not just categories.
scott.mech
#3 Posted : Wednesday, March 7, 2007 11:32:07 AM(UTC)
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Cliff,
I have noticed this on live BVC5 sites and wanted to let you know. I call it PFGC. Poision Flavored Google Candy.
Cliff
#4 Posted : Wednesday, March 7, 2007 2:11:17 PM(UTC)
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No doubt.

The merchant has added a robots.txt file. Can you see any issues with this?

Code:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /bvadmin/
Disallow: /App_Code/
Disallow: /App_Themes/
Disallow: /aspnet_client/
Disallow: /Bin/
Disallow: /bvmodules/
scott.mech
#5 Posted : Wednesday, March 7, 2007 2:57:45 PM(UTC)
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Cliff,
you can do that, but that would not be my personal approach.

Note: using robots.txt to try to handle problems in an application is not its intent. the application problems need resolved.

you likely have some issues of possible duplicated content, which can result in penalization by google.

if google is your only concern, use the nofollow robots metatag in your myaccount pages.

you should note that only some bots support the nofollow robots metatag.

also - there may be some URL issues with googlebot regarding sessions and cookies. I have very solid browsers support in my BVC2004. I do not have time now to try to build out browsers definitions for BVC5 and given the price, I doubt they are included.

now that the adsense bot seems to be working with regular google results, the nightmare swells.

cliff, depending on the URL structure, you may want to consider killing the unrewritten links with something like

User-agent: *
Disallow: /*categoryid=
Disallow: /*affid=

As a word of caution for those considering upgrading from one cart app to another - An unplanned change to your sites URL scheme can result in significant drops in traffic. These sort of things require careful strategy and planning.

Scott Mech
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Cliff
#6 Posted : Wednesday, March 7, 2007 8:26:25 PM(UTC)
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Heheh, the only solution is to fix it. We're just trying to minimize the effect for now. I'm just trying to make sure that the robots.txt won't cause issues we haven't thought about, so thanks for the tips.

Are HTTPS pages even indexed? If not, I don't need to worry about links from My Account pages being crawled by Google.

Penalization is such a scary word for what Google actually does with duplicate results coming from the same domain. I don't know if that's an issue in this case, I just don't want them indexed. I'm more concerned about people seeing the BVModules folders and the fact that they are hackable URLs. For example, someone in the know could easily bypass the set checkout for a different one.

No doubt. This project has extensive redirecting/rewriting for pages from the old store to corresponding sections in the new BVC5 one.
scott.mech
#7 Posted : Thursday, March 8, 2007 8:56:21 AM(UTC)
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>> Are HTTPS pages even indexed?

yes. type HTTPS into google search box..... port doesnt matter.

>> I'm more concerned about people seeing the BVModules folders and the fact that they are hackable URLs.

one reason to not include the folder in robots.txt. housecleaning is a never done project.

Scott Mech
jetheredge
#8 Posted : Thursday, March 8, 2007 9:16:27 AM(UTC)
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There is no doubt that this issue needs to be fixed, but the "My Account" pages are only available to logged in users and so the googlebot cannot reach these areas. If the googlebot follows the "My Account" link then it will be redirected to the login page, just like any other user. We have fixed the issue in SP2 beta 2.
Justin Etheredge
Senior Software Engineer
BVSoftware
Cliff
#9 Posted : Thursday, March 8, 2007 2:57:42 PM(UTC)
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Sorry, I meant login page, which is also https and contains rewritten links. Thanks guys.
jetheredge
#10 Posted : Friday, March 9, 2007 10:29:49 AM(UTC)
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When we release SP2 beta 2 please test this functionality on all custom pages that contain https to http redirects.
Justin Etheredge
Senior Software Engineer
BVSoftware
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