Shopify disallows policies from robots.txt

Technical Q&A
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Hello, I don’t understand why Shopify prevents any “robots” from accessing the store policies? As we can see here:

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How can I remove policies from disallow list? I want my customers to find my terms when they search in google.

2

I’m not sure why they disallow the policies page by default, but you can edit your site’s robots.txt by going to Online Store > Clicking the menu next to customize > Selecting ‘Edit Code’ > then adding a new template and selecting robots.txt. You can then edit the file however you’d like.

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3

Yep I searched that up, but I dont understand what exactly should I edit? I am a developer my self and I don’t want to remove shopify’s default robot.txt content.

4

Hey, probably you sorted this out already, but still, here’s an example that tells you exactly how to remove that policies rule from the robots.txt:
https://shopify.dev/docs/themes/seo/robots-txt

  1. Follow instructions in “Requirements”, to create the robots.txt.liquid file
  2. Follow instructions in “Remove a default rule from an existing groupAnchor”