Shopify has a new bug - they are indexing tons of useless pages in Google again. Is there any way to stop this from happening? The code seems to only be editable by shopify since it’s in the content_for_header. Do a google search for: inurl:/web-pixels-manager@ ( https://www.google.com/search?q=in…

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@ahsonmkhan the first linked URL is noindex and the second is 404

@gregbernhardt Thank you for all the support you have extended. We hope these will be sorted out soon.

[affected pages.png] [detail links.png] Hi Greg, there is no noindex in [email removed] pages and our site produces such pages everyday. Google still indexed them even we have add [email removed] in the robots.txt. Our site had indexed about 3 hundreds pages before. Now google shows more than 6…

@gregbernhardt Can you guys stop the code to produce such no content, meaningless pages?

Hi @gregbernhardt , The Google Search Console still does not check the noindex tag. I have put the pages into the recheck, but the GSC says the problem still persists…one example is this page: https://www.beta-wellness.com/wpm@0.0.255@5dd7309bw0a4825d1pb4247666mb80b6589/sandbox/ I thi…

What I have learned from @gregbernhardt is to remove our added [email removed] so that noindex tag can work efficiently. It is slightly working for us.

You mean from the robots.txt right? I have done that :slightly_smiling_face: ( beta-wellness.com/robots.txt ), still not working properly…

I think its working but took sometime [No Index Tag.jpg] [Indexed though blocked.jpg]

What is the second screenshot? Still pages affected…

How can I prevent the new indexing bug from creating useless pages on Google?

Technical Q&A

SirMiha March 22, 2023, 8:26am 107

Hi @gregbernhardt ,

is there something I am missing out in the robots.txt…

BG,

Miha

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How can I prevent the new indexing bug from creating useless pages on Google?

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