Guidance Required: Japanese/Chinese/Spammy Keyword Hack

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Hi, We have been following all threads related to this Japanese/Chinese/Spammy Keyword Hack issue and have implemented No Index Tag and Robots.txt disallow codes to prevent further pages from getting indexed (Which apparently isn’t working now)

No Index Tag is Placed in the Head Section theme.liquid

{%- if request.path == ‘/collections/vendors’ and collection.all_products_count == 0 -%}

{%- endif -%}

Code Placed in robots.txt

{% for group in robots.default_groups %}
{{- group.user_agent }}

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

{%- if group.user_agent.value == ‘*’ -%}
{{ ‘Disallow: /collections/vendors’ }}
{%- endif -%}

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

In the beginning, pages started to deindex, but from the start of this month, these spammy pages are spiking again from 22k to 53K.

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Some of the spammy links are like these:

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This issue has seriously damaged our SEO efforts as our top-ranked pages are not even visible on SERP. DA declined rapidly.

If there are any suggestions to get rid of this issue, please guide us.

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Hello,

We were discussing this same issue a few weeks ago: https://community.shopify.com/post/1886944

Disappointing that Shopify has seemingly not fixed the issue yet. If they have like they said, having your site re-indexed should fix it. But since you’re having this issue now, I don’t have faith they really have fixed it. If not, you can follow some of the steps in that thread to get it fixed.

Good luck!

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Hi, Thank you for your feedback!

There is something more we have noticed; Indexed though blocked by robots.txt

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