link"Indexing management" documentation

Indexing management add-on adds extra capabilities to the store based on CS-Cart, avoiding the indexing problems of technical pages and other pages, the appearance of which in the search index in the opinion of SEO experts is undesirable :

• Adds tag <meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow" /> in the source code of technical pages, thereby prohibiting search engines from indexing these pages and links from these pages. List of page dispatches that are technical: profiles, auth, checkout, orders, wishlist, reward_points, product_features.compare. Also, such a tag will be added on all pages if there are GET-parameters in the links currency, sort_by, layout, subcats, items_per_page;
• Adds tag <meta name="robots" content="noindex, follow" /> into the category pages source code without products (optionally by setting) and other pages (which the add-on can exclude from indexing), thereby prohibiting such pages indexing, but allowing the search robot to follow links from these pages;
• Allows you to exclude objects prohibited for indexing from the HTML sitemap;
• Allows to exclude canonicity for pagination pages (optionally by setting);
• Allows excluding <link rel="next"> and <link rel="prev"> tags for pagination pages (optionally by setting);
• Allows you to process 301 redirects for cases with frequent (sometimes malicious and deliberate) errors in the URL (processing a slash at the URL end, processing URL extra slashes, processing the URL characters case);
• Allows you to control the openness for indexing and manage the objects canonicity (product pages and category pages) — for each such page, it is possible to close from indexing or changing canonical link to another link of the similar object (product on product, category on category);
• Allows export/import for products Noindex and Canonical attributes.

The add-on works in integration with other add-ons from the SEO package and AB theme packages:

• AB: Advanced sitemap — allows you to automatically exclude objects excluded from indexing from the addon generated XML sitemap;
• AB: Landing categories/pages — allows not to exclude landing categories from indexing (but only if they have subcategories);
• AB: Product of the day and extended promotions — allows you to manage indexing and canonical links for promotions pages generated by the add-on.

General technical support conditions are available at this link (be sure to review these conditions, all solutions from the AlexBranding development team come with limited technical support).

In order to use our technical support, you need to:

1. Log in with your order owner account on https://cs-cart.alexbranding.com;
2. Go to the page My Account → Orders;
3. Find the corresponding order with the problem add-on in the orders list and pass to its details;
4. Find the “Support” link next to the corresponding add-on name (near you can find Documentation link also) and click on it;
5. Fill in the data with the problem, provide access to your CS-Cart installation (path to the administration panel, admin mail, admin password + FTP access) and create a ticket (after you will create the ticket, you will receive an e-mail and a special code to track the ticket in the future);
6. Wait for the specialist answer in accordance with the regulations of the technical support service and the priority of your ticket.

If you didn't receive an answer within the deadlines, according to the chosen ticket priority, send e-mail info@alexbranding.com with the ticket number, for which you did not receive an answer in time, and the team manager will solve the problem in compliance with regulations.

You can test the addon work with admin access using our demo server Demos for CS-Cart solutions from Alexbranding by choosing it in Addons list or just follow the link.

We recommend to note general restrictions:

1. All solutions from AlexBranding developers team require pre-installation of the AB: Addons Manager service addon. It is delivered free of charge and is responsible for such services: installation, upgrades, license verifications. Excluding this service addon usage is not possible;
2. Addon files may have a closed (encoded) part, in which only a license check is located;
3. The addon will work only on those domains, that are specified in the user's license. If you try to use the solution on CS-Cart installations, whose domains are not included in the license, the addon will be automatically turned off;
4. Local installation is not possible, so that the addon works on the additional domain (subdomain), enter this domain (subdomain) in the Domain field, when ordering (or write to info@alexbranding.com) - adding technical domains for the developing or for testing is always free.

After your order has been processed by our manager, it will be transferred to Completed state, you will receive an email to your mailbox with ordered add-ons license numbers (usually it takes from 15 minutes to 8 hours depending on the day time and week day).

Then follow the steps below, which differs depending on your version of the CS-Cart platform:

You can also install the add-on with a standard installation for CS-Cart. To do this, download the appropriate archive with an add-on version compatible with your version of the CS-Cart platform.
Go to the website cs-cart.alexbranding.com, log in under the account of the order holder and go to the page My Profile → Orders → Relevant Order, go to details and you will see a list of available archives for the ordered add-on. Download the version (archive) you need and make the installation (standard for CS-Cart installation: Add-ons → Downloaded add-ons and in the gearwheel menu select Manual installation).

To get correct add-on work, adding hooks is required.
This is a special markup in the templates, which allows you to dynamically change the resulting HTML-code of the page.

For access to the add-on settings you should go to the page Administration panel → Add-ons → Manage add-ons and at the add-on name in the gearwheel menu select appropriate menu item.

This settings will only work on specially prepared servers settings (server needs to give non changed urls to php, than add-on will have possibility to make redirects)

For category indexing managing go to the page Administration panel → Products → Categories → [category] → Add-ons and find section AB: Indexation management. To cancel canonical link changing, choose current category in a picker.

For product indexing managing go to the page Administration panel → Products → Products → [product name] → "Add-ons" tab and find section AB: Indexation management. There is a possibility to change indexation through massive editing of products.

To cancel canonical link changing, click Reset under a picker of the appropriate field.

For page indexing managing go to the page Administration panel → Website → Pages → [page] → Add-ons and find section AB: Indexation management. To cancel canonical link changing, choose current page in a picker.

For brand indexing managing go to the page Administration panel → Products → Features → [brand] → Variants and find section AB: Indexation management. To cancel canonical link changing, choose current brand in a picker.

Addon adds options View indexing parameters and Changing indexing parameters into users privileges:

• View indexing parameters — allows to view object indexation settings;
• Changing indexing parameters — allows to edit this settings.