Has your store been open for months and still not get listed in search engines? Do you see a sudden drop in search traffic after updating your cart or changing your store template? Perhaps Google is not indexing your Zencart store?

Problem 1: incorrect robots meta tag

You may be a victim of “noindex” misuse!

Here is how to check:

1. First, go to your store, right click and choose “view source” or “view page source”
2. See if you can find this string: <meta name=”robots” content=”noindex,nofollow”/>. The string is usually located just above the tag </head>
3. See if the string above appears on the main page on your store
   

The string above is telling search engines to avoid indexing and thus listing your site on the search results. Read more…