Hi
I am really strugling with disabling the "Ask a question" form, I am using VM2 as catalogue only
I have removed the ask a question button\link from the productdetails default.php flypage as far as I can see but for any of the products if you add the following to end the of the URL it will show the "ask a question" form: /askquestion?tmpl=component
It is a new site that I have just launched and I have noticed that google is indexing Ask a question pages for every product
Wondered if the Ask a question form can be disabled altogether? - This is so that I don't receive spam in the future and google doesn't index ask a question pages for every product?
I have tried the forums and can see solutions for VM1 but no luck for VM2 yet
Regards,
Jamie
Disallow: /askquestion in your robots.txt?
check in your Google webmasters robots.txt checker to test
Hi
Cheers for the suggestion I have blocked the URL in robots.txt using the below wildcard so that it blocks anything including "/askquestion?tmpl=component" from being indexed:
Disallow: */askquestion?tmpl=component
That seems to work all ok from multiple URLs so that is great
Is there an easy way of stopping the ask a question form from being generated altogether? Just thinking that further down line the spammers could append /askquestion?tmpl=component to any of my products and could autofill out the forms or and it would generate Spam
Cheers,
Jamie
Enabling recaptcha for the ask question form is the simplest way to prevent bot spam at the moment.
Hi
Thanks very much for the help :D
I will add a recaptcha step to the ask a question page
Cheers,
Jamie