The client was given this advice to use a 'hidden' page for 'other search terms'.

So sounds like they were thinking in terms of a gateway page.

I just had a client say they were advised by a friend to use 'a bunch of unlisted (hidden) pages'.

Isn't this seriously black hat?

I have a simialr problem...

In December, a client site switches from http to https. Any clicks from old backlinks redirect from the http target to https, so the traffic still flows. But because the backlinks are to http, not https, the latter version has lost the Domain Authority.

How do we resolve this? Is the only solution to approach referring sites and ask them to change links to https?

has anyone discovered this bot in their robots.txt file?

User-agent: MJ12bot
Crawl-Delay: 10

Good or bad?

I don't believe this is the answer. I have several other clients on Shopify who do not have goals for macro conversions, but we are seeing conversion data in GA.

Besides, I was always under the impression that if you have ecommerce enabled, it's better not to use goals for transactions as it might duplicate. Is this not the case?

I know how to check whether the code is there. But how do you check whether or not specific pages have been indexed by Google?

As far as I can see Google Search Console only reports on the number of pages indexed, not which pages have been indexed. Is there any way to get an actual list of indexed pages?

I know running a site: query will show up all the results, but I just want a list (eg CSV) of the URLs indexed.

Are you familiar with Shopify?

I have another issue where GA tracking code is not firing on the Thank_You page. I have double checked GA config with the GA implementation twice! But the problem seems to be with Shopify, since this page sites on their site (checkout.shopify.com) and they seem unable to fix it.

Thanks Dmitrii,

So will that one line of code fix the issue for ALL products and ALL collections?

Anyone familiar with Shopify will understand the problems of their directory structure. Every time you add a product to a 'collection' it essentially creates a duplicate. For example...

• https://www.domain.com/products/product-slim-regular-bikini

may also appear as:

• https://www.domain.com/collections/all/products/product-slim-regular-bikini
• https://www.domain.com/collections/new-arrivals/products/product-slim-regular-bikini
• https://www.domain.com/collections/bikinis/products/product-slim-regular-bikini
• etc, etc

It's not uncommon to have up to six duplicates of each product.

So my question is twofold:

1. Firstly, should I worry about this from an SEO point of view? I understand the desire to minimise potential duplicate content issues and also in focussing the 'juice' on just one page per product. But I also planned on trying to build the authority of the collection pages. If I request Google not to index the product pages which link off the collections, does this not devalue these collections pages?
2. Secondly, I understand the correct way to fix these is using 'rel canonical' tags, but I'm not clear about HOW to actually do this. Shopify support has not been very helpful. They have provided two different instructions, so just added to the confusion (see below).

Shopify instruction #1: Add the following to the theme.liquid file...

<title><br />{{ page_title }}{% if current_tags %} – tagged "{{ current_tags | join: ', ' }}"{% endif %}{% if current_page != 1 %} – Page {{ current_page }}{% endif %}{% unless page_title contains shop.name %} – {{ shop.name }}{% endunless %}<br /></title>
{% if page_description %}

{% endif %}

Shopify instruction #2: Add the following to each individual product page...

So, can anyone help clarify:

1. The best strategic approach to this inherent SEO issue with Shopify (besides moving to another platform!)? and
2. If 'rel canonical' tags is the way to go, exactly where and how to apply them?

Regards,

Murray

Hey Logan,

Thanks for clarification on the hreflang tags - sounds good.

Re the .eu TLD, the client is keen to go this route just to enable Euro currency in the checkout. But I agree it is sub-optimal. If there is sufficient business case (ie. traffic), then I will suggest .fr, .de, etc. I believe the Langify app in Shopify works well. Otherwise, I might suggest .com in US$ for all countries other than Aus and UK.

Also wondering on your thoughts re domainuk.com, versus domain.co.uk?

I have a simialr problem...

In December, a client site switches from http to https. Any clicks from old backlinks redirect from the http target to https, so the traffic still flows. But because the backlinks are to http, not https, the latter version has lost the Domain Authority.

How do we resolve this? Is the only solution to approach referring sites and ask them to change links to https?

Just started a site audit and trying to determine the number of pages on a client site and whether there are more pages being indexed than actually exist. I've used four tools and got four very different answers...

• Google Search Console: 237 indexed pages
• Google search using site command: 468 results
• MOZ site crawl: 1013 unique URLs
• Screaming Frog: 183 page titles, 187 URIs (note this is a free licence, but should cut off at 500)

Can anyone shed any light on why they differ so much? And where lies the truth?

Anyone familiar with Shopify will understand the problems of their directory structure. Every time you add a product to a 'collection' it essentially creates a duplicate. For example...

• https://www.domain.com/products/product-slim-regular-bikini

may also appear as:

• https://www.domain.com/collections/all/products/product-slim-regular-bikini
• https://www.domain.com/collections/new-arrivals/products/product-slim-regular-bikini
• https://www.domain.com/collections/bikinis/products/product-slim-regular-bikini
• etc, etc

It's not uncommon to have up to six duplicates of each product.

So my question is twofold:

1. Firstly, should I worry about this from an SEO point of view? I understand the desire to minimise potential duplicate content issues and also in focussing the 'juice' on just one page per product. But I also planned on trying to build the authority of the collection pages. If I request Google not to index the product pages which link off the collections, does this not devalue these collections pages?
2. Secondly, I understand the correct way to fix these is using 'rel canonical' tags, but I'm not clear about HOW to actually do this. Shopify support has not been very helpful. They have provided two different instructions, so just added to the confusion (see below).

Shopify instruction #1: Add the following to the theme.liquid file...

<title><br />{{ page_title }}{% if current_tags %} – tagged "{{ current_tags | join: ', ' }}"{% endif %}{% if current_page != 1 %} – Page {{ current_page }}{% endif %}{% unless page_title contains shop.name %} – {{ shop.name }}{% endunless %}<br /></title>
{% if page_description %}

{% endif %}

Shopify instruction #2: Add the following to each individual product page...

So, can anyone help clarify:

1. The best strategic approach to this inherent SEO issue with Shopify (besides moving to another platform!)? and
2. If 'rel canonical' tags is the way to go, exactly where and how to apply them?

Regards,

Murray