Removing product tags from being indexed by Google

Yvy616 · ‎01-19-2022

Hi I created tags for the purpose of filtering in the store, and for my own organization but I know google indexes all these tagged pages. I don't want that. It leads to a potential to be dinged for duplicate content. I saw another post that had some code to add to the theme file, but I want to make sure that this code won't no-index my collection pages aswell. I just want to noindex the pages that get generated out of the product tags. If one product has 10 tags, google will index 10 pages that are the same! I saw someone had posted this code:

Is that all that's needed to not index tagged product pages, or will that also no index collections pages? (which I DO want indexed)

{% if template contains 'collection' and current_tags %}
<meta name="robots" content="noindex" />
<link rel="canonical" href="{{ shop.url }}{{ collection.url }}" />
{% else %}
<link rel="canonical" href="{{ canonical_url }}" />
{% endif %}

Twinwoods99 · ‎09-08-2022

This works! This should be in the library!

Justin1994 · ‎03-31-2023

Hi,

I've been having the same issue. May I know if this code works for your website? If so, which template did you add this? I really appreciate your help and will look forward to your response!

Vin-Twinwoods · ‎09-11-2023

at the TOP above <head> portion in theme.liquid

EchoLee · ‎09-11-2023

Where should I add this code?

Vin-Twinwoods · ‎09-11-2023

You can add it at the TOP above <head> portion in theme.liquid

BRDE · ‎09-25-2024

I had the same issue with blog taggs which lead to duplicate content. A small adjustment on the code above helps to sort them out:

{% if template contains 'blog' and current_tags %}
<meta name="robots" content="noindex" />
<link rel="canonical" href="{{ shop.url }}{{ blog.url }}" />
{% else %}
<link rel="canonical" href="{{ canonical_url }}" />
{% endif %}

Removing product tags from being indexed by Google

Removing product tags from being indexed by Google

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