Why Is Google Indexing These Product Pages On Shopify?

[farmiloe]

How can we communicate to Google the exact product pages we'd like indexed on our site?

We're an apparel company that uses Shopify as our ecommerce platform. Website is sportiqe.com. Currently, Google is indexing all types of different pages on our site.

**Example of a product page we want indexed: **

Product Page: sportiqe.com/products/PRODUCT-TITLE (Like This)

**Examples of product pages being indexed: **

sportiqe.myshopify.com/products/PRODUCT-TITLE

sportiqe.com/collections/COLLECTION-NAME/products/PRODUCT-TITLE

See attached for an example of how two different  "Boston Celtics Grateful Dead" shirts are being indexed.

Any suggestions? We've used both Shopify and Google Webmaster tools to set our preferred domain (sportiqe.com). We've also added this snippet of code to our site three months ago thinking that would do the trick...

{% if template == 'product' %}{% if collection %}

{% endif %}{% endif %}

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[FedeEinhorn]

Apparently, Google is indexing your main domain http://sportiqe.com with over 7,000 pages already indexed (https://www.google.com/search?q=site:sportiqe.com). Perhaps you are also seeing the previous version as you set the custom domain recently?

Looking at your site, everything looks ok, canonicals are well set, etc.

[guillermoga]

As Federico said it could be because it's a recent change. Also perhaps you are getting traffic for those urls from other source. Is that possible?

You can always go for 301 redirects and be sure that your customers are visiting the page you want.

Here I found a post about a very similar problem to yours. Maybe it could help you.

http://moz.com/community/q/non-canonical-pages-still-indexed-is-this-normal

[farmiloe]

Thanks for the link Guillermo. Dr. Peter's response helped out.

I guess I'll keep an eye on it over the next couple of months, and if it doesn't improve, I'll do some 301 redirects.

Thanks guys.