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robots.txt Blocks Important Pages on Shopify

Your robots.txt file contains Disallow rules that may prevent search engines from crawling important pages on your site.

Issue ID: CRAWL-ROBOTS-BLOCKS-001Severity: majorEffort: S

Why this matters

Your robots.txt file contains Disallow rules that may prevent search engines from crawling important pages on your site. This affects how clearly search engines understand the page and how persuasive it looks in search results.

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How to fix this on Shopify

Use theme settings, page settings, or theme code.

  1. 1Find the source of the issue in Shopify admin.
  2. 2Apply the change.
  3. 3Preview and publish.

After you fix it

  • Use the robots.txt tester in Google Search Console to verify important URLs are allowed

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