A JSON-LD for SEO customer was asking about Google Search Console the other day: Eric, While your rich snippet data may be better than Shopify’s even on a good day, we’re still seeing more & more products being flagged in our search console as time goes on. First you need to look at the trend …
Tag: search console
Another Google bug: Invalid value type for field “availability”
In the first few months of 2019 Google released a bunch of new reports for Search Console for structured data. Along with the new reports come various new bugs. Bugs in Search Console are nothing new, I’ve discovered and written about several of them over the years. With the new Search Console though, you can’t …
Investigating how Google treats duplicate pages in Shopify (canonicalization)
While poking around Google’s new Search Console I ran into this little option in the URL inspector. Notice the last item there, "Google-selected canonical" which is the inspected URL. I also popped up the help text for you too. The url I tested was the product-only url, one that looks like /products/product-handle Compare that to …
Google’s updated Search Console is now released
Google has launched their updated version of Search Console. They’ve been working on it all year and it’s been in beta for a few months with limited features. With the addition of a few final features, they’re starting to encourage websites to start using it. It doesn’t have every feature as the old version but …
Why Google Search Console reports that your Shopify store’s cart.js is blocked
A JSON-LD for SEO customer emailed me with a problem they were having with Google Search Console and blocked pages. Hi I need your help big time please 266 pages have come backed blocked from Google Those blocked resources aren’t a problem, that’s actually what you want. The /cart.js url is blocked by Shopify because …
2 minute check in Search Console to see if your Shopify store’s SEO is healthy
One interesting technique I’ve used is to compare how many pages are indexed in Search Console vs Google Search. For example, one site shows 612 pages indexed in Search Console. But using the special site:DOMAIN search in Google Search I see 559 results. Without knowing anything else about the site, this means that there are …
Estimating how many pages in your Shopify store should appear in Search Console
One common question I get about Search Console is, how to tell how many pages should be indexed. For Shopify stores a quick rule of thumb is to add: number of products (not variants, just products) number of collections number of blog posts number of pages Add all of those and you’ll get close to …
How to use Search Console to checkup on your Shopify store’s indexing in Google
A customer Steve emailed me asking about how to tell if his Shopify store was getting indexed properly. In order to see that it’s best to use Google’s Search Console (formerly Webmaster Tools). Search Console is a free service that collects search and SEO data about your website, but it can be confusing, contradictory, and …