Hello @planetjuniorseo ,
I’m Gina - Product Manager at flareAI. flareAI has helped Shopify stores generate $5+ million in sales from Google Search, on autopilot.
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I would like to share a few suggestions while going through your question. I hope my tips will help you provide the solution you are looking for.
Can you elaborate a little bit on how the collected data is creating duplicate content?
1) Should I bother to redirect them?
Yes.
If the collections are already found on Google if a user performs a search and your deleted page may appear on the search engine results page. Then when the user clicks on the result they will reach a broken page and your ranking will be affected accordingly.
2) If I make them unavailable, would that complete my object and google won’t find them anymore and will only consider other collections which I want to rank for?
Make sure to block search engines from indexing your 80 collection pages. For this, you can use what’s called a robot’s HTML tag with the noindex content.
You can hide the collections from search engines by customizing the section of your store’s theme.liquid layout file. You need to include some code to noindex particular pages.
Steps required:
- From your Shopify admin, go to Online Store > Themes
- Click on your active theme then click Edit code
- Edit the theme.liquid layout file
- To exclude the collection pages, paste the following code in the section:
{% if handle contains 'collection-handle-you-want-to-exclude' %}
{% endif %}
Replace collection-handle-you-want-to-exclude with the collection handle you want to exclude.
- Click Save
3) Does making it unavailable impact SEO?
Having noindex URLs normally does not affect how Google crawls the rest of your website.
But I advise you to see without excluding the collections you are able to fix the duplicate content issue. It is always good to submit as much as pages/collections to Google as once the page is Found on Google, customers can find your products in Google.
SEO only won’t help your web pages rank better and higher in the search results. You have to keep sending regular store updates to search engines like Google. This will help to gain more visibility from your target audience, drive more traffic, and most importantly, increase conversions or sales. You will get less sales and traffic if your products are not found on Google. When your customers search on Google, your product can be found only if Google has indexed the page. flareAI will show which pages are found on Google, and which are not. flareAI also helps to get your new products found on Google, the world’s largest FREE eCommerce sales channel.
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Hope this was helpful! Cheers!
Gina
flareAI