Set no-index on shopify products pages and collections
If you want to reserve your Google Crawl budget to your most relevant pages than you wanted to de-index, the irrelevant pages from the Google Crawl.
We can set a no-index value on product, pages and collections in Shopify by adding a no-index meta tag to each of the specific pages.
In order to target the specific pages will use a conditional if statement and added to our themes header.
Add no-index code to specific products and collections
In the layout/theme.liquid add your conditional code within the <head> tags
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{% if
product.handle == 'example-1' or ]
collection.handle == 'candles' or
page.url == '/pages/privacy' %}
<meta name="robots" content="noindex" />
{% endif %}
Where to get the product handles from
Product handles can be taken from their URLs of the products. For instance, when viewing a product on the front end, if the URL of the product is example.com/products/my-product. Then the product handle is my-product
Where to get the collection handles from
Collection handles can be taken from their URLs of the collections.
For instance, when viewing a collection on the front end, if the URL of the collection is example.com/collections/my-collection. Then the collection handle is my-collection