WorkStore's homepage is built to sell Dyson hand dryers, Showa gloves, Lindhaus cleaning machines and office supplies, and its title and description target those searches. But robots.txt says “Disallow: /INTERSHOP/”, and every category, brand banner, About, FAQ and policy link on the homepage (28 of 44 links) lives under /INTERSHOP/. There is no sitemap.xml either. A facilities buyer searching “Dyson hand dryer price India” cannot be sent to a page Google has been told not to read; Amazon Business and Moglix, which can be crawled, get that buyer instead.
First action
Look up the Disallow rule in Search Console's robots.txt report and list which URL patterns must stay blocked.
How to measure it
Indexed product and category pages
- Now
- –
- Target
- 2,000
- By
- 90 days
Steps
List URL patterns
Category, product, content, cart, account and search URLs in Intershop.
IT Manager (Intershop) 1 day
Rewrite robots.txt
Allow catalogue and content paths; block cart, checkout, account and search.
IT Manager (Intershop) 2 hours
Add canonicals
One canonical URL per product and category.
IT Manager (Intershop) 2 days
Generate the sitemap
All live categories and products, refreshed nightly.
IT Manager (Intershop) 2 days
Submit
Sitemap and robots.txt in Google Search Console and Bing.
Digital Marketing Manager 1 hour
Check top brands
Inspect the Dyson, Showa and Lindhaus pages with URL Inspection.
Digital Marketing Manager 1 day
Monitor
Indexed pages, impressions and orders from organic search.
Digital Marketing Manager weekly
Why it works
Change robots.txt to allow the Intershop catalogue and content paths (category browse, product detail and content pages) and block only cart, checkout, account, login and internal search URLs. Generate a sitemap.xml of all live categories and products, reference it in robots.txt and submit it in Google Search Console. Add canonical tags so the parameter-heavy Intershop URLs do not create duplicates. Then watch Search Console's coverage report as pages are indexed.
The demand already exists: the brands WorkStore features are searched by facility and admin managers every day. Letting search engines crawl the catalogue turns that free traffic on, with no ad spend, and every later SEO or Google Shopping step depends on it.
Ready to use
Copyrobots.txt draft
User-agent: * # allow the catalogue and content pages Allow: /INTERSHOP/web/WFS/org-b2c-Site/en_IN/-/INR/ViewStandardCatalog-Browse Allow: /INTERSHOP/web/WFS/org-b2c-Site/en_IN/-/INR/ViewProduct-Start Allow: /INTERSHOP/web/WFS/org-b2c-Site/en_IN/-/INR/ViewContent-Start Allow: /INTERSHOP/static/ # keep private and duplicate URLs out Disallow: /INTERSHOP/web/WFS/org-b2c-Site/en_IN/-/INR/ViewCart Disallow: /INTERSHOP/web/WFS/org-b2c-Site/en_IN/-/INR/ViewCheckout Disallow: /INTERSHOP/web/WFS/org-b2c-Site/en_IN/-/INR/ViewUserAccount Disallow: /INTERSHOP/web/WFS/org-b2c-Site/en_IN/-/INR/ViewParametricSearch Disallow: /INTERSHOP/ Sitemap: https://www.workstore.in/sitemap.xml (Check the exact pipeline names in your Intershop version before publishing.)
Risks and how to handle them
Server load from crawlers
Allow product and category pages only; keep search and filter URLs blocked.
Duplicate URLs
Canonical tags and consistent internal links.
Evidence
- Your websiterobots.txt (checked October 20, 2026) reads “User-agent: * / Disallow: /INTERSHOP/”, and /sitemap.xml returns 404. On the homepage, 28 of the 44 distinct links point into /INTERSHOP/: every category and brand banner (Dyson, Elkay, Showa, Lindhaus, lighting, facility supplies, corporate gifting), the category pages, About WorkStore, FAQs, Careers, Site Map, Terms, Returns, Shipping and Payment pages. So search engines are told not to crawl the catalogue the homepage advertises.Source
- Your websiteHomepage title “Cleaning Equipments,Hand Dryer,Office Supplies, Corporate Gifting, Lighting & Safety Solutions | WorkStore India” and description “Buy Dyson hand dryers, commercial, residential & retail lighting, Showa industrial safety gloves, Lindhaus cleaning equipment, office supplies, ink & toner, office furniture, pantry supplies, facility automation & corporate gifting solutions in India”; no canonical tag and no social share image; the only H1 is “It appears that your browser has JavaScript disabled.”; 24 of its banner and tile images have empty alt text; the viewport blocks pinch-zoom (user-scalable=0).Source
- Competitor researchRivals' own homepages: Amazon Business, “India's Largest B2B Online Wholesale Market … Bulk Order easily” (and it publishes a sitemap); Moglix, “India's leading online store for industrial tools and equipment … safety shoes, power tools … Free shipping & COD available”.Source
- Chrome UX ReportReal Chrome visitors to workstore.in pass Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile: LCP 2.2 s, INP 36 ms, CLS 0.05 (steady over the last period). Google's lab test returned no result for the page.Source