Google search console shows Robot.txt pages dropping to zero

Topic summary

A Shopify store owner noticed that Google Search Console now shows zero pages blocked by robots.txt, down from a previous count, and is seeking help understanding why this changed.

Current robots.txt configuration:

  • Allows full access to Googlebot and Googlebot-image (no disallow rules)
  • Blocks other crawlers from accessing URL parameters (variants, filters, search queries), specific paths (catalogsearch, product_compare, tagged blog posts), and file types (.atom, .oembed)
  • Includes sitemap reference

Key details:

  • The user provided both a screenshot showing the drop to zero and their complete robots.txt code
  • The robots.txt appears to use Shopify’s default template with custom disallow rules added
  • No responses or solutions have been posted yet

Status: The issue remains unresolved with no community input on whether this drop indicates a problem or is expected behavior.

Summarized with AI on November 1. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.

I have seen that the pages Blocked by robots.txt on the Google search console have dropped to zero. I have no idea why; I have enclosed the screenshot and the code from my robot.txt page.

Any help will be appreciated.

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 %}
{{- group.user_agent -}}

{% for rule in group.rules %}
{{- rule -}}
{% endfor %}

{%- if group.sitemap != blank -%}
{{ group.sitemap }}
{%- endif -%}
{% endfor %}

Sitemap: https://www.stargazer-products.com/sitemap.xml

User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow:

User-agent: Googlebot-image
Disallow:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /?variant=
Disallow: /?pr_prod
Disallow: /?cat=
Disallow: /?pf
Disallow: /?SID=
Disallow: /?p=
Disallow: /?___store
Disallow: /.atom
Disallow: /
.oembed
Disallow: //catalogsearch
Disallow: /
?ref=*
Disallow: //product_compare/
Disallow: /
/_ignore_category
Disallow: /view/id
Disallow: /blogs//tagged/
Disallow: /=uniform
Disallow: /?filter
Disallow: /collections/all*
Disallow: /?q=