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…

Hello everyone. Thank you for your patience while we worked towards providing a fix to this issue and building out an FAQ that addresses the primary concerns and questions from this thread. You can find our FAQ on the Community Blog. We welcome you to continue the conversation in the blog section …

IMO Shopify nor Google will solve this… no worries, their prerogative, but we can’t wait any longer.

Yes, we can’t wait longer, my store has a huge impact on this. I simply just did nothing and it just suddenly hits me.

Hi @shadi1 , the dynamic product recommendation URLs contain the same pattern: “prod_strat”. In the past, they were “Discovered, but not indexed”. Some weeks, or months ago I’ve seen that Google started to consider them more, I found some in 404, and many were in the “Discovered” section. This was…

Thanks @romko18 Another issue to look out for. I have been noticing false reporting or phantom sessions on shopify live traffic reporting. Its reporting alot more traffic then what google analytic live view is. Not sure whats going on but maybe its related to what shopify team is doing to fix this i…

@Mont everyone is at the end of their rope. I’ve pretty much held off my clients for the weekend but I’m seeing big changes coming in my life if Shopify doesn’t fix this or get Google to intervene somehow. Unfortunately some of the smaller stores I talk to will likely be better off with new domains,…

I’ve had nearly 400 visits from Singapore today! It get’s weirder and weirder this topic!

Quick update to not let you all hang in suspense over the weekend. Multiple teams have gone to great lengths and coordinated a proposed change in how we are delivering the web pixels that should address many of the concerns communicated in this thread. We will be testing the change next week. When …

Thank you for the update Greg, A lot of us are experiencing a huge increase on our shopify website visitors report , its not showing on google. I take it the testing has started and hopefully things will get better by next week!

Hopefully, Shopify give us an option of using their analytics or turning it off along with the pixels - in reality Shopify analytics are of no use to me

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

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@shadi1 I had 88 people from Singapore yesterday before lunch, for a second I thought my traffic was picking back up.

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

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