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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Now I don’t feel like I’m going crazy, thank you. This kills me because we’ve been fighting 404s forever now with very little progress and now we have 1.5x the amount of 404’s we had when this issue started. Pre WPM we had <10 404s, WPM wave 1 got us to 4k, now we’re closing in on 8k. It basically …

I’m not holding my breath, my 404 count just doubled. We didn’t even get that many new 404s on 3/13-3/15. Today is, on paper, worse than the worst day of this problem to date. Time to sit back and watch the traffic drop coincidentally and completely unrelated to this.

Hi Vicky, Your steps seem perfect for your situation. Our “Indexed, though blocked by robots.txt” has also gone to nearly zero which is as expected.

It looks like robots.txt was blocking nothing for a few days. Are you seeing something similar? [robotsblocking.png]

Did your “Blocked by robots.txt” drop to zero? [robotsblocking.png]

UPDATE: Looks like robots.txt was either offline or served a nearly blank file for a few days. Glad to see that there’s absolute turmoil on the back end. “Incorrect use of the [robots.txt] feature can result in loss of all traffic.” - Shopify [robotsblocking.png]

We’re also seeing the same thing reported by other stores since July 1st: Sizable increase in 404s and “Excluded by ‘noindex’ tag” pages. It’s all the same wpm stuff and vendors spam as before. Also, can confirm the same weird data GSC “Blocked by robots.txt” data the above poster is reporting. In …

I think this expected especially since many are seeing the same thing. We from the start communicated that the noindexes would over time convert to 404s when the WPM pixel URLs changed for versioning. This will not affect your performance. The 404s will clear over time. What we don’t want to see is …

How about the spam pages vendors?q= issue i thought that was resolved and the sudden its back ?

Google detecting 4,200 new 404 pages is not expected. The issue isn’t that they’re a 404, the issue is that Shopify is providing links directly to 404 pages. These are new pages. Please stop making them.

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

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The devs looked into these dates and nothing was done on our end regarding robots.txt files.

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

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