The CommerceV3 software has been updated to allow you more options in the use of Canonical tags for Product Review and Question and Answer pages.

In admin, under Settings / Options / Display Options / Catalog Options, you now have new options to:

1) Turn on canonical category information for the create product review and Q&A pages.   Canonical tags tell the search engine bots which pieces of content are the original or primary ones and which are duplicates. This way the bot will pass over the duplicates and only index and give link credit to the primary piece.

2) Show a Not Found page for Product Details, Create Review, and Product Q&A if the category chosen for that page does not exist.  You have the option of setting a Not Found page that you would like to have appear if s NOT Found result is returned.

3) Choose a 301 Redirect for a product or category of the product or category does not exist.  You can choose and set-up a 301 redirect for the separate product and category pages when a NOT FOUND result is returned.

With so much talk about getting into search engines, and achieving high rankings on a particular search engine, it may seem crazy to do anything which would prevent this from happening. However, there are times when you have a web site or page(s) within a web site which you don’t want to end up in a search engine.

For this reason all of the category_sort, category_filter, and category_print views will now have the noindex and nofollow robots tags.

The noindex tag tells the bot Do not show this page in search results and do not show a “Cached” link in search results.

The nofollow tag tells the bot Do not follow the links on this page.

The CommerceV3 software has been updated to now offer the option of Image Verification on the Product Reviews and Product Question and Answer (Product Q&A) submissions.

Go to Settings->Options->Security Options->Form Image Verification Options and select “Product Review” and/or “Product Q&A” from the forms select box.

You must select the method  reCAPTCHA in order to use image verification on the Product Q&A form.

** This feature requires a template upgrade.

The CommerceV3 software has been updated to allow the items selected for the rewards program to use the shipping method chosen for the checkout.

Shipping calculations based on price will now use the reward program product original price instead of the $0 price returned with a rewards purchase.

The CommerceV3 software has been updated to display in the same format as the report features.

Settings> Suggested Search

The search terms can now be displayed in several pages and sorted by suggested terms numerically and alphabetically as well as sorted by weight given to each term.

The ability to search for a specific term has been added as well.

The CommerceV3 software has been updated to now update customer billing address automatically if it matches a corrected shipping address.

This functionality automatically applies to guest checkouts, however to apply it to member checkout you must go to Settings->Options->Shipping Options->Shipping Options and set “Should member billing address be updated if it matches a corrected shipping address?” to “yes”.

This when selected will update the member billing address if it matches a corrected shipping address.

The CommerceV3 software has been changed to now show the customer wishlist when created as Public instead of private.

The customer retains the option of making the list private.

This change will eliminate some of the customer confusion of how others can view the wishlist created.

The CommerceV3 software has been updated to now allow you to make comments as the site owner that will be posted with the product review on the site with the product.

Inventory> Product Reviews> Edit

You can add comments to the Owner Comments area and save the changes.  The comments that you place will then remain with the product review on the product within the site if you approve the comment.

In order to be able to make owner comments you will need to make sure that you have the setting for reviews set to No for Auto Approve all reviews.

After a review is approved you will no longer have the ability to make any Owner Comments.

This function requires a template upgrade.

The CommerceV3 software has been changed to allow more options and flexibility in choosing the shipping areas for your site.

The options can be found under Settings -> Options -> Shipping Options -> Shipping Options

The old settings options appeared on the left and the new options on the right.

This change eliminates some of the duplication of information and allows you to make more specific choices for your shipping.

You will need to verify your current settings to make sure you are shipping only to the locations that you have selected.