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…

This is FYI for the group struggling with this SPAM issue… I was doing some research over on the Google Search Central Help Community. Apparently, this issue is quite widespread and also is impacting Wordpress sites in addition to Shopify stores. Once of the threads over there had a link to this a…

Did another review of Google Search Console today and discovered a new wave of SPAM on the “…collections/vendors?q=” pathway that so many shop owners are experiencing. However, the difference now is the SPAM pages are in the category of “Blocked by robots.txt” or “Crawled - currently not indexed” i…

On the same subject this article came up doing some more research on this topic: https://gofishdigital.com/blog/shopify-robots-txt/ Good info here on the default robots.txt file from Shopify. Apparently, most shop owners don’t change this. Interesting to note that the default robots.txt file block…

Interesting. I am having the same issue but mine is “euromillion” & lottery-type stuff and not FIFA. The majority of it was in Chinese so I needed to use google translate to see what it says. If you search “euromillion shopify” in google, numerous sites pull up but you can tell they are all malware …

This is impacting my store too. Trying to work through a solution. Shopify support have referred me to the theme developer.

This is exactly the issue - instead of 404-ing as expected, the page is rendered as 200 with whatever the value of “q” is as the collection object’s title so it’s outputted to the page, and that’s the exploit the spammers are taking advantage of.

As mentioned by Allan-EP above, the issue is on Shopify’s end is being exploited by spammers. Shopify should not be referring people with this issue to third parties. The problem touches Shopify stores with Shopify-provided themes. Shopify should fix the exploit on their end. It is not normal that…

@Allan-EP noindex is more appropriate. Whether or not a result is returned, the page exists. 0 is just as valid a number as any. 0 doesn’t = page doesn’t exist. 0 = 0 vendors. The danger of 404ing is that you may have a store that fluctuates between having a result for the query and not having a res…

You’re not understanding the issue. “Vendors” is not a collection on our store (and I would expect this is the case for many of the other stores in this thread), so /collections/vendors/ shouldn’t exist. A 404 is the expected response. On top of that, “q” is getting passed into the collection title …

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Dan_Bennett January 3, 2023, 6:56pm 70

Why is Shopify returning a 200 error on any invalid page going to /collections/vendors?q=…

Shouldn’t this return a 404?

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