How do I disable the "Ask a question" form (Google is indexing for all products)

[jdunderhill]

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

[GJC Web Design]

Disallow: /askquestion  in your robots.txt?

check in your Google webmasters robots.txt checker to test

[jdunderhill]

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

[jenkinhill]

Enabling recaptcha for the ask question form is the simplest way to prevent bot spam at the moment.

[jdunderhill]

Hi

Thanks very much for the help 

I will add a recaptcha step to the ask a question page

Cheers,

Jamie