Thanks @kyle_risley .. Random search on some Shopify merchants
https://www.ministryofsupply.com/collections → Page doesn’t render correctly as not all collections have images. I have spoken to this merchant and they didn’t know that page even exist and was indexed by Google.
https://fentybeauty.com/collections → Another decent size merchant and you will see that page is indexed by Google but broken (only renders header/footer)
I can give you 100 such examples.. Just look for some big merchants and look at /collections URL and see if the page renders correctly and has noindex,nofollow added or not
I am working with some big Shopify merchants and from my experience I can tell you that even if you have this information in Google feed, it doesn’t really appear in SERP without this structured data.. I am still testing this but no evidence of it appearing with just the feeds. I have seen it for some shopify merchants but they have priceValidUntil implemented in structured data but not easy to do in Shopify has Shopify doesn’t have a date associated with prices (some merchants have possibly customised this)
Shopify adds .atom href as a link tag on collection pages and Google bot waste time trying to crawl these URLs.. (take a look at any shopify merchant’s GSC)
I think Shopify should add following in robots.txt by default.
User-agent: *
Disallow: /*.atom
Is there any reason why this is not added by default in robots.txt?
How do we do this with Combined Listing and this liquid filter? If Color is not a variation but an option in CombinedListing? I doubt that even if this liquid filter works for Combined Listing, it will add Color data in ProductGroup Schema.. I will try this out but wanted to put this on your radar in context of CombinedListing
Thanks .. Yes.. it’s not scalable as type of pages/collections can be all over the place (depending upon specific use cases). I have thought about it and letting us adapt seo.hidden attribute using T&A app is the only scalable solution I could think of.. I believe T&A let’s you adapt URLs for market so this is kind of related.
I don’t think we know enough about how this SERP feature works just yet to answer how it interacts with ProductGroup schema, but I’d be surprised if ProductGroup schema is not compatible with this SERP feature. It is something we’re aware of and continue to monitor.
Yeah, this is old, old code. It may need to be revisited. Until then, we don’t see it causing performance issues for merchants, but if you have concerns about it you’re free to customize the /robots.txt of your clients.
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