On 4/20/2005, Early Impact release version 2.75 of ProductCart. To get the updater, log in to your ProductCart Control Panel and choose the "Check for Updates" link at the top right corner.

For an overview of the new features and enhancements in this update, please see: http://www.earlyimpact.com/productcart/new275.asp

For more details and installation instructions, see the README file in the updater zip file.

If you are using the Gift or Apparel add-ons, please update to 2.75 first and then use the "Check for Updates" link again to get links to the add-on updaters.

If you have updated your ProductCart installation to version 2.75 prior to 4/20/2005 you should apply the patch attached to this post. This came to use from Early Impact today and it is recommended you install it to prevent problems using 2.75. At this time, there isn't an updater provided by Early Impact, just this patch. The ProductCart 2.75 Update release on 4/20/2005 contains this patch so if you upgraded on that date or later, you do not need to apply this patch.


Please read the README in the appropriate file for more information and installation instructions.

If you review your web site statistics you may see that your web site's images are being found through Google's Image search (http://images.google.com/). This in itself is not bad. However, what sometimes happens is that people come across an image on your site and then link to the image in a blog post, online forum post, etc. which causes your bandwidth to be used.

To prevent Google from indexing the images on your site, add the following to your robots.txt file:

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow: /

This will tell Google's Images spider to not index any images on your site. For more information, see Google's information page. If you don't already have a robots.txt file, just create a file named robots.txt using a text editor and add the contect above to it. Save it and upload it to the root of your web site.