Thanks for your advice Alex, yes i agree, will ask Shopify if this was them (re default settings) or if my migrators have been over enthusiastic but contrary to best practices.

Have a great BH weekend !

All Best

Dan

Hi

I've just had best practice site migration completed for my old e-commerce store into a Shopify environment and I see in GSC that it's reporting my standard pages as blocked by robots.txt, such as these below examples. Surely I don't want these blocked ? is that likely due to my migrators or s defaults setting with Shopify does anyone know? :

t&c's

shipping policy

pricing policy

privacy policy

etc

So in summary:

1. Shall I unblock these?

2. What caused it Shopify default settings or more likely my migration team?

All Best

Dan

Hi

All sounds very strange - when you look in GSC and refine down to the page level looking at a few individiual pages such as the ones you know havnt been showing up in results (over the time period this has been going on) are you seeing massive drops in impressions and clicks ? I think worth checking this just to double check that Google is dropping them out of the index for sure rather than it being simply a ranking position drop.

Thanks for commenting on my thread too

All BEst

Dan

HI Thomas

First of all thanks so much for taking the time to respond in so much detail i really appreciate it

For your info we are not deploying hreflang for this project/client since one of the country sub sites is actually on its own ccTLD and the foreign language site on a sub folder - we don't have a problem with the various languages ranking in other countries, in fact consider it better that way since some will use English in Turkey and Turkish in Turkey etc etc. However this clients developer has added hreflang fields so can add in the future if want or need to depending how things work out with it but internatinal seo strategist on this project advised not to use it in our particular circumstance.

Re Yoast Social Accounts:

The main English .com site does have all these socials entered into the Accounts tab/page of Yoast , i presumed it made sense to add the foreign language socials to the Accounts tab/page in the foreign language sub sites too BUT have been told by someone who had done similar that it screwed everything up. So just wanting to check if you agree here and they should be left empty since when they say **MAIN social accounts **they do mean just the English in the .com Yoast Accounts section and leave the Accounts tab in foreign language sub sites Yoast empty.

The articles you provided such as Yoast etc are all very good and i did look at these but none seem to address this specific question which is what im look to clarify, any ideas ?

Many Thanks

Dan

No worries Dirk

All BEst
Dan

Thats great thanks Lynn, i just had a response from Moz too saying they will phase out GB so use UK ideally

Thanks everyone

Hi Dirk,

Thanks so much for confirming that !

So is it simply an error that Moz Analytics campaign set up keeps it as an option ?

All Best

Dan

Hi

What's the difference search engine wise and which one should I choose, i presume GB since covers entire British landmass whereas UK excludes Ireland according to political definition, is it the same according to Google (& other engines) ?

All Best

Dan

Just so you know other advice ive got in regard to this is to leave foreign language sub site Yoast plug account fields empty

Hi Thomas are you able to confirm re my reply ?

many thanks

dan