I have 2 pages that Google Search Console says are indexed, but blocked by robots.txt. I went through the shopify help article and got to the point shown in the screenshot. I need help with next steps. Shopify support couldn’t help me. [robotscode.png] [robots2.png]

Hey @Sarah441 It wasn’t meant for you to code something, sorry for my lack of clarity. My comment was that there is nothing you need to do. Your policy pages should not be indexed and Shopify is doing exactly what they should be doing. What’s happened here is that you’re linking to your policy page…

Shopify blocks policy pages in the robots.txt file because they usually aren’t helpful for people when searching for products. If you go to your live robots.txt page , you’ll see Shopify has the following which is expected. Disallow: /policies/ Disallow: /*/policies/

I’m not sure how this helps me. I do not understand coding.

There are dev docs that show this exact example. [KieranR_0-1718668834580.png] From here: https://shopify.dev/docs/storefronts/themes/seo/robots-txt#remove-a-default-rule-from-an-existing-group So basically replace the group.rules for rule in your template with the one from example. But persona…

I’m currently dealing with Google Merchant blocking all of my products and suspending my account for “misrepresentation.” To prevent this from happening, Google wants to see the policy and cart pages on your site. I tried to allow the pages Shopify has blocked in order to be indexed by Google and ho…

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KieranR November 25, 2024, 10:39am 7

Just publish a /page/privacy and /page/tc and you’ll be set

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