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?
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Hi guys, I need assistance. Is there anyone who can help me?
Please look into this
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I have the same issue that just started: https://releaf-box.com/blogs/news.atom Icon appeared in my footer.
Lucas
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Thanks for the information, I will try to figure it out for more.
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Hi, Please look into this matter and let me know. As of now I have more than 100 URLs in the Google search console.
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Likewise, we’ve also got .atom pages created for our ‘collections’ pages and am left thinking … do I redirect them as they don’t offer any clear value to a would-be visitor.
Hi all, I have a bunch of .Atom pages showing up in our Google Search Console. How do we get rid of these? Or should we not worry about them? Thank you for any help that you can provide!
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I’m wondering, do I just set them up as a temp removal? Would this fix the problem until Shopify finds a work around? It certainly creates issues with indexing and it will impact SEO if the URL is in a group set that is becoming ‘failed’ thus halting the index process until fixed. If redirected then that creates a new set to index and then again once the issue is fixed…Has anyone found a best practice for working around this?
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Do you have any updates for this topic?
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Maybe it would be a good idea to set an canonical tag for this urls…
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I have the same issue and with hundreds of them. Would be helpful if someone from Shopify could give us guidance on this one. I was toying with disallowing them in robots but not sure
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I really don’t know what’s going on with this thread, it’s been a month. Shopify members didn’t reply on it. Can somebody look into this and let me know the best solution for it?
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As Shopify Plus member, I’ve contacted the support and long story short. They are shrugging this off as ‘normal operating procedure’. They are directing me towards using Removal tools in Search console. As of right now there’s NO way to control .atom file generation or it’s content.
There’s a serious exploitable issue with this process and it’s allowing hackers from the outside to generate atom files. Here’s an example of one on my end:
-/collections/all/Diablo-IV-Item-PC, 
Best-site 
X4GM·com Cheap-Price Fast-Delivery Diablo-4-Gold-PS4-PS5,Buy-Diablo-IV-Items,Diablo-4-Items-XBOX-ONE,Diablo-IV-Items-XBOX,d4-Gems-PS4-PS5,Diablo-4-Gold-XBOX-ONE,Buy-d4-Gold,Cheap-Diablo-IV-Gems,diablo-4-paragon-boost,Diablo-4-Items-for-sale, b187.atom
Besides having these unwanted URLS, these atom files are tripping google search console because they are wired wrong, they contain
<link rel="alternate"
What they should contain is:
<link rel="canonical"
Not 100% sure if Shopify Development is taking this as an issue, let alone a serious one at that. I’ve logged a feature request, based on my previous experience that could mean this will be addressed anywhere between 6 to 96 months from now.
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I have exactly the same issue with some of these ‘diablo’ atom urls created. Is there a way to remove them?
I did a temp removal because Shopify was telling me this was normal. We all know it’s not normal and nobody had a real solution. I was left to just try out the temp removal. It seems to have helped when google decides to crawl the sitemap. Important pages are indexed but this group set (should be indexed) is just removed from the crawler.
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I guess this is not going to solve . I have asked several times to support the team, but they didn’t help me yet. I don’t know how much time they gonna take to resolve this issue. It’s been more than several months, this discussion is still going on.
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Ok, so as we can see there appears to be an ongoing and serious problem here.
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How are these urls being attached to our sites?
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How much of a negative impact are these in our sites Google ranking and search results?
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WHY IS SHOPIFY APPARENTLY IGNORING THE MATTER
So how do we resolve the problem? I recently search online for my business and used almost every key word and my site did not appear in any of the Google search results, where it did previously.
So I can almost guarantee that these atom urls and others, are affecting our businesses.
And anyone else have the following urls indexing?
/collections/all/best-dumps-shop,%E2%AD%95Cardx%E3%80%90dot%E3%80%91vip%E2%AD%95dumps-and-pins,vbv-cc-shop,cvv-shop-dumps,buy-vcc-for-paypal-verification,buy-fullz-with-dl-number,buy-cheap-cvv,buy-dumps-cc,card-dumps-with-pin,real-dumps-with-pin,cvv-dumps-2021,%20%20%20655d
/collections/all/buy-dead-fullz
/collections/all/buy-diablo-4-item
/collections/all/%E2%AD%95my
/collections/all/5a44
/collections/all/cc-dumps-for-sale
/collections/all/cheap-diablo-iv-gems
/collections/all/shop-online-without-cvv-code
/collections/all/d2c8
/collections/all/web-facebook-com-hacked
/collections/all/diablo-iv-gems-xbox
/collections/all/plugin
/collections/all/diablo-4-items
/collections/all/analytics
/collections/all/diablo-iv-gems
/collections/all/diablo-4-boosting
/collections/all/best-site-to-buy-cvv-2020
/collections/all/shop-cc-dumps
/collections/all/approved-cvv-shop,%E2%AD%95Cardx%E3%80%90dot%E3%80%91vip%E2%AD%95vcc-for-bing-ads,buy-cvv-fullz,best-site-to-buy-cvv-2020,best-cc-shops,buy-best-dumps,buy-fullz-2020,buy-fullz-with-paypal,free-debit-card-dumps,best-sites-to-buy-cc-dumps,moneybase-cvv-shop,%20%20%20fb6a
/collections/all/centralshop-cvv-shop
/collections/all/online-purchase-without-cvv,%E2%AD%95cardx%E3%80%90dot%E3%80%91vip%E2%AD%95buy-cc-cvv-online,buy-cvv-fullz-online,legit-cc-shop,legit-cvv-sites-2020,buy-credit-card-dumps,dumps-with-pin-shop,valid-dumps-with-pin,best-dumps-shop-2021,buy-fullz-info,cvv-stores-online,%20%20%20bbdb
/collections/all/diablo-iv-gold-pc
/collections/all/d4-item-ps4-ps5
/collections/all/buy-d4-gold
/collections/all/d3-solo-power-leveling
/collections/all/cheap-d4-gems
/collections/all/seo
/collections/all/cheap-d4-items
/collections/all/Diablo-4-Item-XBOX-ONE,%E2%9C%94%EF%B8%8FBest-site%E2%9C%94%EF%B8%8F%E2%AD%95X4GM%C2%B7com%E2%AD%95%E2%9C%94%EF%B8%8FCheap-Price%E2%9C%94%EF%B8%8FFast-Delivery%E2%9C%94%EF%B8%8FDiablo-4-Items-XBOX,Diablo-4-Gold,diablo-4-boost-discord,Diablo-4-Item-PS4-PS5,d4-Item-XBOX,boost-diablo-4,Diablo-IV-Gems,d4-Gold-PS4-PS5,d4-Gold-XBOX-ONE,Buy-Diablo-4-Item,%20%20%207f6d
/collections/all/shop-online-without-cvv,%E2%AD%95Cardx%E3%80%90dot%E3%80%91vip%E2%AD%95buy-vcc-ebay,buy-cvv-fullz,best-cc-shops-2020,cvv2-shop,business-fullz-for-sale,buy-vbv-cc-online,buy-cvv-with-debit-card,cvv-dumps-2021,buy-cvv-online,buy-live-fullz,%20%20%20d2c8
/collections/frontpage
/collections/all/buy-vcc,%E2%AD%95Cardx%E3%80%90dot%E3%80%91vip%E2%AD%95fullz-cc-website,shop-dumps-with-pin,best-sites-to-buy-cc-dumps,buy-fullz-with-paypal,fullz-card,cvv-shop-high-balance,buy-dead-fullz,shop-without-cvv-number,carding-dumps-with-pin,bypass-cvv-shop,%20%20%2092bf
/collections/all/telegram-wp4ya-%E2%AD%95-lifetime
/collections/all/smelt-gold-tbc
/collections/all/d4-gems-xbox
/collections/all/diablo-4-boost-discord
/collections/all/diablo-4-item-pc
/collections/all/Buy-d4-Gems,%E2%9C%94%EF%B8%8FBest-site%E2%9C%94%EF%B8%8F%E2%AD%95X4GM%C2%B7com%E2%AD%95%E2%9C%94%EF%B8%8FCheap-Price%E2%9C%94%EF%B8%8FFast-Delivery%E2%9C%94%EF%B8%8Fboost-diablo-4,diablo-4-season-boost,d4-Gems-PC,Buy-Diablo-4-Gold,diablo-4-season-24-power-leveling,Diablo-IV-Gold-PS4-PS5,Diablo-4-Items-PS4-PS5,d4-Gems-XBOX,d4-Item,Diablo-4-Item-for-sale,%20%20%206743
/collections/all/telegram-kunghac-%E2%AD%95-hacked-netflix-download
/collections/all/viber-hacked-news
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How long has everyone been a Shopify customer? I have been since 2018 and there has been a drastic drop in customer service.
And even the fact that they have brushed this off to several owners as stated above, they should be monitoring these chats and providing assistance, rather than leaving store owners out to dry and wasting time trying to resolve the problems, when we could be doing more productive things to grow our businesses.
Even more interesting is WHY would Shopify not assist when this is not an isolated problem and if it is affecting our stores, thus search results are impaired, that means Shopify is making less income also.
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Just a thought, have any of you been getting repeated spam emails from people who want to offer their services to do a SEO audit on your site to help your Google rankings?
I suspect that it could be these types of people who are someone hacking the sites by creating these urls, to block sites from properly appearing in a Google search, thus the reason they offer their assistance.
There is NO WAY that Shopify is not aware of this, and they should be assisting ASAP.
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