Google Filling Up Miva Shopping Carts

Is this a problem?

[jonrichd]

I recently got a Miva store up and running, and after a week, it looks like Google has spidered many of the product pages, which is good.

It also has spidered numerous versions of the shopping cart itself. Looking at the cache, it looks like there are different 'items' in the cart that GBot has apparently 'ordered' -- apparently by following the "Add to Cart" links that we set up..

Of course, I end up with a lot of abandoned carts when G comes by.

Anybody else ever see this type of behavior? Should I worry about it? I would just as soon keep the product and category pages in there, but don't know how to keep them but not the cart.

[Essex_boy]

Hey thats not on! Sticky mail Google guy and find out where to send the bill! Grrrrr.

[Raymond]

Oddly the exact same scenerio is happening to me for the past 3 days, but instead of Google, it's yahoo for me. (66.196.93.6)

I was checking my cart abandon rate and there were 10000+ views of the cart & add to cart page in 1 day alone with just 50 cart visits. Turned out Yahoo has been "adding" items to my shopping cart thousands of times. I am not sure why yahoo is doing this though. I am guessing that the spiders for yahoo store is trying to figure out the correct images/descriptions/itemID to display in their product database, so yahoo store wouldn't display your submit button thinking that it is the product image. Froogle has been showing my <li> substitute image thinking that it is my product thumbnail for the longest time, so I guess they are all updating their bot AI.

BTW, we coded our own cart, it is not a 3rd party software.

Just my 2 cents.