Blocking URL's instead of handles in Meta Robots code

Technical Q&A
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Hi!

I would like to block some specific URLs from my being indexed by Google so I added the following code to the of the theme.liquid folder I wanted to make sure that the code below was correct.

  • As you have noticed, I am using the “if url contains” argument instead of the “if handle contains” argument. Will Google still recognize this?

  • For some background I’m afraid that if I use the “If handle contains” argument, then I will no index all pages that have that keyword in the handle at all.

  • So for example I have one page that has the handle “mens” and if I wrote {% if handle contains ‘mens’ %}

Then wouldn’t that no-index all of the following pages? /mens, /mens-vitamin, /collection/mens, /pages/mens, etc.?

Here’s the code

{% if url contains ‘/pages/prenatalvitamins’ %}

{% elsif url contains ‘/pages/fertility’ %}

{% elsif url contains ‘/pages/sperm’ %}

{% elsif url contains ‘/collections/men’ %}

{% elsif url contains ‘/collections/women’ %}

{% elsif url contains ‘/collections/frontpage’ %}

{% elsif url contains ‘/collections/beli-collection’ %}

{% else %}

{% endif %}

thank you

Loren