Hi! I received an alert from google search console saying they excluded a page from indexation, and when I look at the page it’s spam publicity: [MVUILL_0-1663842242468.png] URL : https://www.french-address.com/collections/vendors?q=Buy%20FUT%2023%20coins%2C%20Cheap%20FIFA%2023%20coins%20for%20s…

Hi @MVUILL I can definitely understand your concern! Based on the URL you shared it looks like this might be a collection created within your admin or possible from the new Shopify Collabs service. The “spammy” content of that page you shared is what appears to be the collection page title. If you…

I believe the noindex is sent via header

Hi …I could be wrong this is all over my head, but I focussed on sitemap.xml , since that is what Google uses to index. I went through support. Wasn’t me , somehow my sitemap (products) was revised from https://vr.supplies/sitemap_products_1.xml (which was filled with garbage links) to https://vr…

@Mont I’ve tried some merchant sites and that first sitemap URL results in a 400 error

The culprit is vendors?q= after collections/ At least Google excluded it. that’s good Shopify’s 1st fix was to send all of those vendors?q= to a 404 page, but that’s a short cut fix IMO. GOOD NEWS …cool business btw. anyway I went to https://www.french-address.com/sitemap.xml TRY this. Looks like…

Hi @gregbernhardt Google continues to index “search” spam pages. This is really becoming problematic, and it’s starting to impact my SEO (loss of keywords, loss of traffic…). The solution with “no index” doesn’t work. Every day, google indexes new “search” spam pages. The right solution would be …

@Maxime_Breton_V can you DM a /search link that is being indexed?

I’m getting new spammy pages being indexed by Google on my end as well.

We’re aware of the collections/all/ spam. Please DM me to let me know if you’re using an official Shopify theme or a third-party theme.

Hi Greg, Today I noticed https://mywebsite/search?q= spam urls are increasing. I was down in the 4K for indexed but it’s rising again due to these so I’ve submitted a removal request until I hear from someone on this board to keep the numbers from shooting up again. [5-3-23 GSC Screenshot.jpeg]

How can I remove a spam page from my website index?

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Maxime_Breton_V March 27, 2023, 3:29pm 204

I would just like to confirm that new “search” spam pages are also still being indexed by Google on my end also.

The number of spam pages being indexed keeps going back up.

Is any permanent solution in the works?

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