How to hide a page from the search engines in Shopify

Published By :Mudassar Shakeel Shopify Tutorials, SEO
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A client asks me to hide a page from the search engines in shopify. I had done this with a custom robots meta tag. Today maybe you also want to hide a page from Google in the Shopify store.

Most users hide pages from search engines just because they don’t want to rank some pages such as thank you, private page, and landing page.

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What is Robots meta tag?

Robot meta tags are lines of code that tell crawlers how to crawl and index the content of web pages.

Hide a page from the search engines in shopify

You need to follow the below steps to hide a page from the search engines in Shopify.

Step 1: Login to shopify admin, go to Online Store > Themes.

Step 2: Find the theme you want to edit, and then click Actions > Edit code.

hide a page from the search engines in Shopify

Step 3: Click the theme.liquid layout file.

Shopify theme liquid layout file

Step 4: To exclude a specific page, paste the following code in the <head> section:

 
  {% if handle contains 'ayurveda-consultations-treatments' %}
<meta name="robots" content="noindex">
{% endif %}

Step 5: Make sure that you replace “ayurveda-consultations-treatments" with the correct page handle.

Url to Hide

Step 6: Click Save.