As part of our standard Search Engine Optimisation services that we provide to all mshShoppingCart clients we create a robots.txt file which restricts Google and other search engines from ranking unnecessary site pages. This helps increase the relevance of the pages on your site that contain real relevant content.

We restrict the following pages:

• /account.php
• /cart.php
• /checkout.php
• /finishorder.php
• /login.php
• /orderstatus.php
• /postreview.php
• /productimage.php
• /productupdates.php
• /remote.php
• /rss.php
• /search.php
• /viewfile.php
• /wishlist.php
• /admin/
• /templates/
• /giftcertificates.php
• /*?
  
  

Note: The /*?  in the robots.txt file stops search engines from ranking any page with a question mark in the URL. This is to ensure that only Search Engine Friendly URL's are indexed on your site.

We do not recommend you change the robots.txt file except to add other pages which you may not want indexed by search engines.