Google Console help, Alternative page with proper canonical tag and 404 Page Not Found Errors

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Hi

Any help would be great.

I’ve just done a little spring cleaning and shuffling my website about (Redesigned it).

Google console is flagging up big issues and not indexing 4.56 K pages, now thats 4/5ths of my website not indexed on google which obviously not good.

2,314 pages of alternative page with proper canonical tags

753 pages of Not found (404)

831 pages of Crawled - currently not indexed

187 pages of Excluded by ‘noindex’ tag

So I’ve tried adding the following code :

{% if template contains ‘collection’ and current_tags %}
<link rel=”canonical” href=”{{ shop.url }} {{ collection.url }}” />
{% else %}
<link rel=”canonical” href=”{{ canonical_url }}” />
{% endif %}

to above the head section.

in the hope to solve the canonical issue, not sure whether this will work.

The 404 issue, do i need to go through all 753 pages and redirect them or can this be done in bulk? or can i delete them off the site index?

Pages of Crawled - currently not indexed - not sure how to solve

Pages of Excluded by ‘noindex’ tag - not sure how to solve

Any help on any of these would be appreciated

Thanks

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Hello @Halfpipe75 ,

This is Gina from flareAI app helping Shopify merchants get $6Million+ in sales from Google Search, on autopilot.

It appears that your Shopify store has several issues that are affecting its search engine optimization and indexing on Google. To address these issues, you can follow these tips.

* Canonical Tags
The code you added to your theme’s head section is a good start to address the canonical issue. However, it’s important to make sure that the canonical URL matches the actual URL of the page. You should also check to make sure that there are no other canonical tags on the page that may be conflicting with the one you added.

* 404 Errors
It’s important to address 404 errors because they can negatively impact your SEO and user experience. You should go through each page and either redirect them to a relevant page or delete them from your site. You can set up redirects in bulk by using a redirect app or CSV file, but make sure to redirect to relevant pages to avoid hurting your SEO.

* Crawled Pages Not Indexed
If Google is crawling your pages but not indexing them, it could be because of several reasons such as low-quality content, duplicate content, or technical issues. You should review the content and make sure it’s high-quality and unique, and check for any technical issues such as incorrect meta tags or robots.txt file.

* Pages Excluded by Noindex Tag
If you have pages that are excluded by a noindex tag, it means you’re telling search engines not to index those pages. This could be intentional or unintentional. If it’s intentional, you should make sure that those pages are not critical for your SEO or user experience. If it’s unintentional, you should remove the noindex tag from those pages.

It’s important to regularly monitor your site’s SEO and indexing status to ensure that you’re not missing out on potential traffic and sales.

Gina

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Thanks for the quick response

The canonical issue is affecting 2314 pages, is there a quicker way to address the issue other than to visit the 2314 pages checking for no other canonical tags on the page.

404 errors, these are all for deleted items from my store so don’t exist, will this issue not be sorted out when google properly crawls my site? can i delete them off the site index and re-submit the site index? or again am i crawling through 753 pages?

Thanks in advance

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Were you able to fix it? If not there’s a simple few lines of code to run so you don’t have to manually comb through those many pages.