Hi. I too am seeing the exact same issue & it is impacting my index. I am going to set them up as a temp removal & create a ticket with Shopify today. I will report back if anything changes. It does not seem worth the time to set up redirects and index if there will be a work around or a fix from Shopify.
Has anyone got a fix for .ATOM pages? What are they? What do they do? Is there any benefit to having a load of them appear and eat into the crawl budget? Is anyone within the @Shopify_77 support team going to respond to this thread?
same issue and when I link to the page ending with .atom it show all of the code. Seems a little too transparent. Anyone know why or what app causes this?
These .atom pages are used for feed and supposedly help SEM to get updates for fresh content. But it seems that it is not that much the case now? And google decided to index them…
Quick fix : update robots.txt file like that
we use Shopify as our ecommerce platform
{% for group in robots.default_groups %}
{{- group.user_agent -}}
{% for rule in group.rules %}
{{ rule }}
{% endfor %}
This should help but the problem is when these atom pages are already indexed. One option is to wait that google desindex by himself these now blocked by robots pages but not sure how efficient it is. We can also manualy ask for noindex in the GSC but that’s a pain if we have a lot of pages with this issue.
The best option is to put these atom page in noindex as shown at the begining if shopify is kind enough to do it. Or if anybody is able to help to inject the noindex on these lines. Anyone please?
pages ending .atom are for google to quickly read your page to find updates, etc. and should not be indexed (along with a lot of other pages such as canonical, etc). It is normal for them to show up in Crawled but not indexed, etc. and is best practice for them not to be indexed to the search engine. If you find a duplicate page ending in .atom that is indexed (you most likely will not) then go to removals and ask google to remove it. Really not worth worrying about and no reason to ask Shopify support.