Removing product tags from being indexed by Google

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Hi I created tags for the purpose of filtering in the store, and for my own organization but I know google indexes all these tagged pages. I don’t want that. It leads to a potential to be dinged for duplicate content. I saw another post that had some code to add to the theme file, but I want to make sure that this code won’t no-index my collection pages aswell. I just want to noindex the pages that get generated out of the product tags. If one product has 10 tags, google will index 10 pages that are the same! I saw someone had posted this code:

Is that all that’s needed to not index tagged product pages, or will that also no index collections pages? (which I DO want indexed)

{% if template contains 'collection' and current_tags %}

{% else %}

{% endif %}
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This works! This should be in the library!

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Hi,

I’ve been having the same issue. May I know if this code works for your website? If so, which template did you add this? I really appreciate your help and will look forward to your response!

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Where should I add this code?

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You can add it at the TOP above portion in theme.liquid

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at the TOP above portion in theme.liquid

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I had the same issue with blog taggs which lead to duplicate content. A small adjustment on the code above helps to sort them out:

{% if template contains 'blog' and current_tags %}

{% else %}

{% endif %}
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