Manage SEO data with the Admin API
You can change the way a product, page, collection, blog, or article appears in search engines by updating the resource's SEO data. To update a resource's SEO data, you can create or update the resource's metafields.
Update a resource's search engine listing
To change a resource's search engine listing, you can update two different metafields, title_tag and description_tag. These metafields exist in a namepsace called global. By updating the values of these metafields, you can change the title and description for a resource's search engine listing.
Example JSON request
The following example request changes the description for a product's search engine listing:
POST /admin/api/2022-01/products/#{id}/metafields.json
Hide a resource from search engines and sitemaps
If you want to hide a resource from search engines and sitemaps, then you can use a metafield to add noindex and nofollow meta tags to the resource's pages.
To add noindex and nofollow meta tags to a resource's pages, create a new metafield for the resource with the following attributes:
- "namespace" : "seo"
- "key" : "hidden"
- "value" : 1
- "type" : "number_integer"
Example JSON request
The following example request hides a product from search engines and sitemaps:
POST /admin/api/2022-01/products/#{id}/metafields.json