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Sitemaps and robots.txt for Shopify, explained without jargon

What search engines actually do with these two files, and what to change.

By Team Final Apps
Sitemaps and robots.txt for Shopify, explained without jargon

What a sitemap is for

A sitemap lists the pages you want crawled. It does not guarantee indexing, but it helps search engines find new pages faster.

What robots.txt is for

robots.txt tells crawlers what not to fetch, such as filtered collection URLs that create duplicate content.

Common mistakes

Blocking pages you want indexed, and leaving thousands of filter URLs open to crawlers.

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