Re: Shopify Bug - Web Pixels Manager Sandbox
Shopify has a new bug - they are indexing tons of useless pages in Google again. Is there any way to stop this from happening? The code seems to only be editable by shopify since it's in the content_for_header.
Do a google search for:
inurl:/web-pixels-manager@
(https://www.google.com/search?q=inurl%3A%2Fweb-pixels-manager%40)
Each site has multiple versions of this page indexed. Peets.com for example has 20.
The pages look blank, but include something like this in the code:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Web Pixels Manager Sandbox</title>
<script id="web-pixels-manager-setup">(function e(e,n,a,o,t){e&&(window.Shopify=window.Shopify||{},window.Shopify.analytics=window.Shopify.analytics||{},window.Shopify.analytics.replayQueue=[],window.Shopify.analytics.publish=function(e,n,a){window.Shopify.analytics.replayQueue.push([e,n,a])});var r,i,s,l,d,c,p,u,f=a+"/"+o+"."+function(){var e="legacy",n="unknown",a=null,o=navigator.userAgent.match(/(Firefox|Chrome)\/(\d+)/i),t=navigator.userAgent.match(/(Edg)\/(\d+)/i),r=navigator.userAgent.match(/(Version)\/(\d+)(.+)(Safari)\/(\d+)/i);r?(n="safari",a=parseInt(r[2],10)):t?(n="edge",a=parseInt(t[2],10)):o&&(n=o[1].toLocaleLowerCase(),a=parseInt(o[2],10));var i={chrome:60,firefox:55,safari:11,edge:80}[n];return void 0!==i&&null!==a&&i<=a&&(e="modern"),e}()+".js";r={src:f,async:!0,onload:function(){if(e){var a=window.webPixelsManager.init(e);n(a),window.Shopify.analytics.replayQueue.forEach((function(e){a.publishCustomEvent(e[0],e[1],e[2])})),window.Shopify.analytics.replayQueue=[],window.Shopify.analytics.publish=a.publishCustomEvent}},onerror:function(){var n=(e.storefrontBaseUrl?e.storefrontBaseUrl.replace(/\/$/,""):self.location.origin)+"/.well-known/shopify/monorail/unstable/produce_batch",a=JSON.stringify({metadata:{event_sent_at_ms:(new Date).getTime()},events:[{schema_id:"web_pixels_manager_load/2.0",payload:{version:t||"latest",page_url:self.location.href,status:"failed",error_msg:f+" has failed to load"},metadata:{event_created_at_ms:(new Date).getTime()}}]});try{if(self.navigator.sendBeacon.bind(self.navigator)(n,a))return!0}catch(e){}const o=new XMLHttpRequest;try{return o.open("POST",n,!0),o.setRequestHeader("Content-Type","text/plain"),o.send(a),!0}catch(e){console&&console.warn&&console.warn("[Web Pixels Manager] Got an unhandled error while logging a load error.")}return!1}},i=document.createElement("script"),s=r.src,l=r.async||!0,d=r.onload,c=r.onerror,p=document.head,u=document.body,i.async=l,i.src=s,d&&i.addEventListener("load",d),c&&i.addEventListener("error",c),p?p.appendChild(i):u?u.appendChild(i):console.error("Did not find a head or body element to append the script")})(null,null,"https://cdn.shopify.com/shopifycloud/web-pixels-manager/0.0.186","sandbox","0.0.186");</script>
</head>
<body></body>
</html>
Hi Greg, there is no noindex in wpm@ pages and our site produces such pages everyday. Google still indexed them even we have add Disallow:/wpm@* in the robots.txt.
Our site had indexed about 3 hundreds pages before. Now google shows more than 6000 pages and our traffic dropped by 2/3. Can you guys stop the code to produce such no content, meaningless pages?
We need to get this resolved ASAP, this is not going to be easy to explain to the business owner why half of his traffic vanished. Please, any update would be appreciated. I'll be tapping F5.
"web-pixel-manager URLs will 404 and drop from the index"
How? Is something changing in the future? Right now /web-pixels-manager pages are not blocked in the sitemap, not blocked with no-index tags, and not blocked with x-robots tags. What has changed and how can we verify that it's actually changed?
I can't tell google the problem is fixed and have them spend an exorbitant amount of our crawl budget over the next month to see that the pages are still indexable and being served by shopify. Stuff happens. Just be transparent with us and tell us what the roadmap is because saying indexable pages "will 404 and drop from the index" is a promise that seems unrealistic.
The problem is still not solved knowing that it is more than 2 weeks old for the number 1 host of ecommerce site it becomes shameful. Each day more is less credibility for all your users. Moreover, even today I still have the Wpm and Web pixel Manager pages that appear but I also have a Chinese URL that was not created by me, which has just been detected. So I'm going to ask users if this is related to the same problem as WPM and if they too have detected this because shopify doesn't seem to want to help us this PROBLEM, or doesn't communicate enough which makes everything unclear and very unpleasant.
Omg, happy to see people are having same issues as me. My traffic is turning BIG downwards due to this issue since Middle of March core update. Tons of pages are not indexed currently. Can anyone suggest me solution?
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