are .atom pages affect SEO? Shopify has created several. atom pages. I pulled down links from google search console. I found several . atom page. Will they affect SEO? if yes, then how can I stop Shopify to generate these pages?

Found this link for Customizing Robots.txt and used it to make this addendum to the bottom: (this line intentionally left blank to separate from the directives above) User-agent: * Disallow: *.atom Disallow: ?pr_prod_strat Good thing about the instructions here is it surfaces Shopify’s code for…

Hello everyone. Growing more frustrated as my removals have all reappeared to my site and inside of GSC. I pressed Shopify for an answer. I was first told that Shopify was working on a fix, then told it was standard operating procedure and they know nothing about it. Then told again that they are wo…

perfect, exactly what I was looking for!

Did you add this to the end of the robots.txt file? I.E. not between one of the {%- if …-%} .. {%- endif -%} sections?

Yes, my code looks like this: # we use Shopify as our ecommerce platform {%- comment -%} # Caution! Please read https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/promoting-marketing/seo/editing-robots-txt before proceeding to make changes to this file. {% endcomment %} {% for group in robots.default_groups %} {…

Same here. The second line of the .atom page is something like that <feed xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:opensearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/" xmlns:s="http://jadedpixel.com/-/spec/shopify"> and should include noindex like that <feed xml:lang="en" xmlns="http…

Hi all, this is most likely interesting for you too: https://community.shopify.com/post/2119138 Best Felix

Hey Fry, Please can you tell me if I need to add the whole of your code to my robots.txt file, including the comments? I want to stop wasting crawl budget on .atom files without messing up the rest of my site. Thank you so much

Do .atom pages impact SEO and can their creation be stopped?

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Thank you SO MUCH for your response.

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