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 …

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

The link you posted to the blog redirects to this thread. I found the direct link here: https://community.shopify.com/post/2062077

Maybe I’m just not technical enough to understand Trevor’s response but it seems like to me that there’s no information provided here about how to fix the issue or what Shopify did to fix it. Did I miss something?

You’re right! That was my mistake. I’ve updated the link

“We have created a solution to stop the crawlers from executing the JavaScript preventing pixel URLs from being crawled” What is the solution? So the action we should take is to do nothing and wait for all the pixel urls to disapear from the google reports? I went ahead and temporarily removed in…

I want to get rid of these url’s that are indexed and I believe are impacting my SEO with Google https://www.bunkbedking.com/wpm@0.0.242@9a764525wd403f451p960ae872m43ec93c7/sandbox/products/bunk-bed-tall-end-ladder-gray-drawers https://www.bunkbedking.com/wpm@0.0.253@819b7641wc5b14080p284a660bm58c…

Correct me if I’m wrong. It looks like Shopify before had just hardcoded an iframe to each page, which was ok, but became a problem since Google handled it the way it did. The iframe itself seems to be the same. But with this solution an extra step is made. The iframe is not injected directly into …

@Denny The previous code loaded the iframe from javascript also. The difference now is that they moved the javascript for it into it’s own js file and blocked that file in robots.txt. The block in robots.txt will prevent Google from rendering the code that generates the iframe and since it’s a js f…

[shopify-pixel-implementation.png] We’ve updated our Definitive SEO Guide to Shopify’s Web Pixel Manager Problem article with details of this change: https://p1commerce.com/resources/shopify-web-pixels/#attempt-4

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

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jasonwill21 May 16, 2023, 1:54am 324

Thank you @Trevor for the upadate, Lets observe the update impact and hope it brings back our SEO traffic.

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