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Blocking Standard pages with Robots.txt (t&c's, shipping policy, pricing & privacy policies etc)
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Hi
I've just had best practice site migration completed for my old e-commerce store into a Shopify environment and I see in GSC that it's reporting my standard pages as blocked by robots.txt, such as these below examples. Surely I don't want these blocked ? is that likely due to my migrators or s defaults setting with Shopify does anyone know? :
t&c's
shipping policy
pricing policy
privacy policy
etc
So in summary:
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Shall I unblock these?
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What caused it Shopify default settings or more likely my migration team?
All Best
Dan
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Thanks for your advice Alex, yes i agree, will ask Shopify if this was them (re default settings) or if my migrators have been over enthusiastic but contrary to best practices.
Have a great BH weekend !
All Best
Dan
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I wouldn't block them. While it's unlikely to affect the rank of your other pages, it may result in a poorer user experience, e.g. if someone were to be searching for one of your policies in Google, it would not be returned.
I'm afraid I'm not an expert on Shopify at all, so I can't answer why they wouldn't have been blocked.
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