There’s one major issue with Shopify. Our store won’t index and Binge, for example (Google issues the same message), says: Not indexed as this page is a redirect URL cannot appear on Bing There is no error links on the site, the domain redirects accurately, and there is no indication why the Shop…

Hello @shopfy-2020 When Bing or Google sees your homepage as a redirect, they can’t index it—so you’ll never rank, no matter how good your SEO is. Shopify often redirects your naked domain ( yourstore.com ) to your www or vice-versa, and if that redirect isn’t a clean 301 to your primary domain, cr…

Also worth checking if you have a geo-location app which redirects visitors automatically. hreflangs also help if you have multiple languages/markets. Ad share a link to your store – this will give more information on why you’re having this.

The page is being redirected because the content after the redirection is duplicate. For example, A and B are two different URLs, but they display exactly the same content. This often happens when the same product is accessible through multiple different URLs. Browsers follow the rule of indexing …

You can verify it this way. Calculate the total number of pages on your website Suppose there are 300 pages in total But Google search console will tell you that 3k pages are not indexed. This is actually just because the URL address is different, which will generate so many pages

Why does the Shopify store not index on search engines?

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shopfy-2020 May 30, 2025, 7:52am 5

Not true. There are no duplicates. Nor will an entire store not be indexed on google over a few duplicate pages. That makes no sense.

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Why does the Shopify store not index on search engines?

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