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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It’s another new week soon! Hopefully we have some good news to save our Store :grin:

I’d encourage everyone to keep posting spam index links, this gives everyone a chance to block these link hopefully before they get crawled.

Hey @gregbernhardt We were told we would get an update at the very start of last week which never came and then were advised imminent on Wednesday 10th, I would personally class imminent as within a day or two (down to my personal perception). Can you please provide an actual date so we can plan a…

Well its also getting worse my not indexed count jumped to 82k from 64k! and my indexed thou blocked by robot.txt has also jumped from 74 to 345. How are more wpm pages getting indexed ? Did they place a block in the robot.txt again? [Screenshot 2023-05-15 091419.jpg]

We also recognized increasing numbers of indexed wpm pages. I guess adding a robots.txt block has been tried by the Shopify Team, but i can’t find that block in robots.txt anymore. So it has probably been removed again. If I am wrong, please correct me. If it has been deleted, no more pages shall be…

I was told during the weeked by Shopify support that I have to reach out to Google, because those “web-pixel” and “wpm” URLs are created by Google and not by Shopify. I think I’m getting old and stupid. I thought I knew a bit about SEO, but this tells me I know nothing. So sad …

Fortunately, for security purposes, Google is not able to make whatever pages they want on people’s Shopify stores; shopify support should be aware of this issue by now you would have hoped :disappointed_face:

Shopify created those URLs, NOT google. Their web pixel manager was a massive failure, they injected code that linked to those pages. It is solely Shopify’s error, compounded multiple times with failed fixes.

No update yet, this is starting to feel like waiting for godot …

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

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kbarcant May 15, 2023, 3:43pm 315

We’re supposed to get an update today, everyone hang tight.

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

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