SEO and Item Reviews
If you allow item reviews for the items on your site, it is possible for the reviews to rank higher on search results pages than your page for the item. For that reason, if you use any ShopFlow version other than 1.06, you should use the robots.txt file to disallow indexing of reviews and new review pages. This is not necessary for version 1.06 because it disallows indexing of reviews automatically. A sample robots.txt file to block reviews may appear as follows:
User-Agent: *
Disallow: /*/reviews
Disallow: /*/reviews/new
This configuration blocks indexing of review and new review pages for any site where the reviews in the URL appear directly after the domain name. If a site has customized URLs then insert the appropriate number of wildcards in the disallow statement.
For a site where one folder exists between the domain and the review pages, the Disallow statements would be:
Disallow: /*/*/reviews
Disallow: /*/*/reviews/new
For a site where two folders exist between the domain and the review pages, the disallow statements would be:
Disallow: /*/*/*/reviews
Disallow: /*/*/*/reviews/new
Any other customized URL should follow this same standard, one * for each folder in the URL.