I have JoomSEF version 3.7.4 installed on a site with the Virtuemart extension. We are seeing a bunch of non-sef products showing up on Google and can't figure out why.

Do a search for the following on Google..

GLX6900X-2 TQ

and you will see a link for the product like this...

www.tqdiamonds.com/index2.php?option=com...1&tmpl=component

Which goes to a weird page with no CSS or anything.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Neal Miller

Hi,

The links starting with index2.php and with tmpl=component in query string are used in Joomla for printing, AJAX etc. so they don't display the template, just the raw component output. This particular link is the link to Print the product, so Google must have picked it up instead of the real link.
Unfortunately, there's not much that I can advise you. You could probably modify the VirtueMart's code to add the rel="nofollow" to those links - see www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/an...=en&answer=96569

Best regards,
ARTIO Support Team

Thank you! I have gone ahead and turned off the print feature in VM for now and put a Disallow in the robots.txt for any addresses that have index2.php in them so hopefully that will take care of it for now.