How can I prevent product variants from being indexed in SEO?

[Maxime07]

Hello,

I have a question about how to prevent variants from being indexed.

Could you confirm this solution is corrected ?

So i put this is into theme.liquid :

{% if handle contains '?variant' %} <meta name="robots" content="noindex"> {% endif %}

for exclude this : https://www.domain.com/products/yankee-candle-tree-farm-festival-petite-jarre?variant=42065755930787

[Salil1]

Hi @Maxime07 

I dont think you can use the `handle` parameter to detect a variant. 

In any case, you have the following `canonical` tag

<link rel="canonical" href="https://www.myamericanshop.com/products/yankee-candle-tree-farm-festival-petite-jarre">

Canonical is telling google to show only the product page instead of the variant page. I don't think you need to have any custom robots tag.

[flareAI]

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You can correctly set the canonical URL for the variants. The canonical URL element informs Google and other search engines to crawl a website, and what URL to index that specific page’s content under. You can read this blog on canonical URLs 

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