Am I reading this wrong?
in the self URL it is a pritt stick, but in the trace information it mentions treasury tags!!!!

Can you help me decipher it please.
Thank you
Glenn

Self URL
wool/pritt-pink-stick-20g-ref-1445071-price-offer-may-sept-2011

Real URL
index.php?option=com_virtuemart&category_id=4103&flypage=flypage.tpl&manufacturer_id=43&page=shop.product_details&product_id=21581&Itemid=1510


Trace Information
From: www.phillipsprint.co.uk/desktop-accessor...ge-pack-100?vmcchk=1
Referer:
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +www.google.com/bot.html)

#1: JRoute->_('index.php?page=shop.product_details&product_id=21581&flypage=flypage.tpl&pop=0&manufacturer_id=43&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=1510'), /administrator/components/com_virtuemart/classes/ps_session.php line 603

#2: vm_ps_session->url('page=shop.product_details&product_id=21581&flypage=flypage.tpl&pop=0&manufacturer_id=43'), /administrator/components/com_virtuemart/html/shop.product_details.php line 187

#3: include('/var/www/phillipsprint.co.uk/htdocs/administrator/components/com_virtuemart/html/shop.product_details.php'), /components/com_virtuemart/virtuemart.php line 180

After looking at several urls, it looks like they are being created by bots (Googlebot, Baiduspider) etc.

My question is why are these bots creating new URL's and why they not usinging the correct url in JoomSEF.

Glenn

Hm, not sure why this happens. Try disabling "Cookie check" in VirtueMart's configuration (it's located on the Global tab in Core settings panel). It usually causes problems with google indexing.

I have already diabled the "cookie check" in VM and it made no difference.

I have exported some products using CSVI, and looked at the product details and the "product_url" is correct, the only thing I came to which I don't understand is "product_parent_id" which is set to 0?

Thank you
Glenn

When you have multiple variants of one product, each variant is a child of the main product, so the child product's parent id is set to the main product id. Main products have parent id set to 0.