Hello,
Given the current large number of noindex wpm pages, would disallowing them be more beneficial to reduce Google’s crawling costs?
Thanks!
So far shopify solution has been to no index, they placed a no index tag in the headers of all stores, they can’t use a disallow tag in robot.txt as that would create a lot of indexed thou blocked by robot.txt pages.
I thought this would of been a temp solution and i m trying to find out if there a permanent one in the works!
Any news on that @gregbernhardt
The problem is that this issue has clogged up my no-index list in GSC - so i cannot see if any of my real skus are not being indexed - frustrating
I would really like to see a response from Shopify of their plan to fix the current issue and ensure it is not an ongoing problem (not just comments from Greg who I thik is trying to do his best, but has no complete answers that solve our concerns)
Agree, would appreciate knowing what Shopify intends to do beyond temp fixes, if anything… or maybe they can’t or don’t know. Greg thank you for doing all you can.
I suspect Google’s A.I. and algorithms will fix their problem with us. Who knows where that will lead. If we go one more month with SEO pointing in the wrong direction…whatever the cause. It just isn’t sustainable for our Shopify store.
Hello,
My website’s rankings are decreasing every day, and I find it difficult to accept that my hard work is going down the drain. It feels like my website is dying due to these decreasing rankings.
I just want to say, Google tracking code also is used for various analytics tracking, but it could not generate so many pages. So do you think whether Shopify needs optimizate your tracking code to stop generating such ■■■■ pages !!!
Ok it’s not me - it’s you (Shopify)
I have two stores, same business, same brand.
One uses another platform in Canada and it’s trending upwards. Shopify platform in USA going downhill.
Other than location and platform trying to decipher differences. One is Google Merchant account. Could that be a contributing factor?
No need Shopify analytics = no need for WPM/WEB pages = problem solved
Dear Shopify Officials,
You are making some updates for our sites. I appreciate that very much.
But we are experiencing a lot of damage due to the last analytical or update/development you tried to do. What to do is stop the last update/development. You can improve the update you have tried by installing a few pilot sites, and you can fix the errors (by seeing what we are experiencing right now) without reflecting on us.
We see that you forget the warnings that you constantly remind us (make a copy before making changes to your theme, so that if there is a problem, we can return to the old order without any problems). Never too late for anything! Problems can always be fixed, which requires acknowledgment of the problem!
I am new to this, if I removed Shopify analytics, is the non-index issue be resolved? Thanks
nice question. an easy solution.
If the diagnosis is correct! It is also unknown whether the problem is analytical, we assume so!
This issue has popped back up for us in a big way. Normal crawl requests to our Japan subdomain is about 2k-3k per day. This past Sunday 4/16 that spiked up to over 150k and they are all these exact links. Is there any update on what is going on from Shopify? Thanks. @gregbernhardt
Great question. My issue is strictly on our Japan subdomain right now
Hey mont, I’ve been dealing with the .atom 404’s for months now. It was never too excessive so I never complained. You aren’t alone though. Seems like every new shopify feature comes with a new problem on GSC
We’re in free fall. Sad after so much work.
To: Ladies & Gentlemen Shopify Customers,
It is clear that we are not going to get the answers and full senior attention of the Shopify CEO by ONLY posting to this thread. My last post was quite clear (from several weeks ago), basically my request to Shopify was “tell me what you are doing and tell me what I need to do” … I was not given an answer.
So … I suggest that each person still post their issues on this blog AND then follow-up with a phone call into Shopify, state that your issue is “blah blah” (which you posted on this blog - BEFORE you call) and then say “I want to escalate to the CEO”.
This provides a clear document trail. I suggest just stick to the issue and the impact it is having … nothing else.
Hopefully such an approach will get Shopify’s CEO attention.
It is clear - “hoping” that the CEO finds this blog isn’t happening … and why would it … there are hundreds of these blog. So … I suggest follow the above procedure and then followed by “pick up the phone”.
Best regards & respectfully.
I was contacting their support, all they know is to let me resubmit the sitemap and they insist claim that there’s all green lights from their end and no issue has been found. Just to let All of you know about my finding today.