SEO Meta Robots - plugin for Shopy-Script applications

Plugin "SEO Meta Robots" helps block the indexing of pages in your online store that should not be indexed by search engines and whose blocking via the "robots.txt" file is problematic. Plugin supports the following page types:

• Hidden product pages (product pages with the status "Hidden in site")
• Hidden category pages (category pages with the status "Hidden in site")
• Pagination pages (pages with the GET parameter "page")
• Product pages (pages with the GET parameter "sku")
• Junk pages (pages with any GET parameter except "page" and "sku"); (pages with several GET parameters); (pages with the "?" symbol at the end of the URL); (product review pages without any reviews)
• Product review pages (product review pages with at least 1 review)
• Technical pages (configured individually in the plugins settings)

There are a total of 3 ways to prevent a page from being indexed (excluding HTTP headers):

• via the "robots.txt" file.
• via the "robots" meta tag.
• via the "canonical link".

All these methods are supported by Yandex and Google search engines, but the last one, the "Canonical Link," is only a recommendation for search engines and can be ignored by them.

On July 4, 2019, Yandex officially announced that the search engine ignores the "Canonical Link" and continues to index pages. This has been confirmed in practice. Google may also ignore this tag and index non-canonical pages of the site. Therefore, it is necessary to use methods other than the "Canonical Link" to prevent page indexing on the site.
Nevertheless, the "Canonical Link" tag should be used because it transfers weight from unnecessary pages of the site to those that are needed. I recommend using plugins "SEO Meta Robots" in conjunction with the SEO Canonical Link plugin.

Plugin "SEO Meta Robots" does not allow indexing of pages using the "robots" meta tag. Unlike the "Canonical Link," the "robots" meta tag is strict, and search engines always take it into account and strictly adhere to it.

Main advantages of plugins "SEO Meta Robots":

plugins compatibility

• Works with all design themes containing the "frontend_category", "frontend_product", "frontend_head" hooks. Plugins can be output not via hooks, but via helpers.
• Works correctly on pages with any URL type (natural, mixed, flat).
• Compatible with plugins "Brands", "Brands PRO", "Review catalog" and other plugins that create custom page types.
• Compatible with plugins "SEO-filter", "SEO-articles" and other plugins that change specific pages with GET parameters into optimized pages with SEO URL addresses.

In the current version, plugin only partially supports UI 2.0 - plugins settings do not support the dark backend version.