What is Sitemap & NoIndex Manager?
Sitemap & NoIndex Manager gives you complete control over NoIndex, NoFollow meta tags and your Shopify generated XML sitemap.
Applying NoIndex will tell search engines such as Google, Bing and Yahoo not to crawl those pages and stops them being indexed.
What sections can I manage NoIndex, NoFollow meta tags?
Products
Collections
Pages
Blogs and blog articles
Entire store
Search result pages
Product tags/filters
Product vendors
Blog tags
Pagination (Multiple pages such as /?page=2, /?page=3 etc)
Out of stock products (zero quantity)
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What sections can I remove Sitemap URLs from?
You can remove sitemap URLs for the following:-
Products
Collections
Pages
Blogs
Blog articles
What will happen when Google drops support for NoIndex in robots.txt?
You may have read on the Internet that Google are dropping support for NoIndex in the robots.txt file on 1st September 2019.
We're pleased to say that our app will continue to work as normal.
We don't modify the robots.txt to implement NoIndex, we use HTML meta tags which Google is saying is the official and supported way of applying NoIndex.
NoIndex Any URL
We've recently added a new feature that gives you the ability to NoIndex pretty much any URL.
You can also set up rules up so you can NoIndex URLs that contain certain words.
How will this app benefit my store?
Managing your sitemap is very important for SEO reasons. A sitemap is a document full of links to pages, products, blog articles and other content that helps search engines crawl your store and index it into its search results. It helps with search engine optimisation by making it easier for search engines to organise and find content on your store.
You may not want all pages being indexed because there can be many different versions of the same page which causes duplicate content issues. Your store can be penalised and have its ranking lowered as a result of duplicate content. By using our app you can exclude pages from your sitemap and apply NoIndex, NoFollow meta tags to them so search engines stay away, safeguarding your stores rankings.
Fix Duplicate Content Issues
This app will help you fix duplicate content issues your store could be facing, resulting in lower rankings and being penalised by Google.
Tackling this issue will ensure your store keep its rankings which will result in customers finding your store higher up in the search results. More customers = more revenue.
One Click Installation
You don't need to edit your theme, once you install our app you're ready to go!
Support
If you need any help please do not hesitate to get in touch with us! We're always willing to listen to feedback and update our app.