How can I hide product pages from SEO but keep them searchable on my site?

Hi.

So, im deep down in the SEO. I have a store thats built with a app called Pixify. I sell digital files, videoes. I upload via the app, create tags there, collections and products also get created in shopify when i upload them.

But i keep my original filenames so i can match it with my local server, so the filenames is useless for anyone else. I tag the files in the pixify app and add a description there. So the customers can search the files in my store. So i have thousands of files thats make sense ON the site when browsing and searching. But they dont make sense in the SEO world. They only appear with random filenames, thats making my site rank very very poor. I actually almost cant find it. It`s indexed, but basicly useless regarding googling it.

Regarding the collections i create descriptions and edit the SEO urls so they is better ranked. But the products is way to many to edit in that way.

I have tried to add the metafield and seo.hidden method on all mye products. And thats hinding the products from the sitemap, but its also hiding the files for the search function on my site. So i can`t do that.

I want:

  • To be able to hide the products from seo, because they will appear totally random with the technical filenames.

  • But of course i would keep the files searchable on the site, so removing it from sitemap is a nogo apparently?

The best for me is that the “normal” pages and collections is the ones that`s indexed and searchable on google. Not all the individual products.

Thanks!

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