Have you ever wanted to hide a product from being indexed? I have

Did you know you could do that using a metafield?! Me neither.

Check this out.

All you need to do is create a new metafield for your products. The new metafield needs to have the following attributes:

• "namespace" : "seo"
• "key" : "hidden"
• "value" : "number_integer"

Whenever you set the value of this metafield to 1 for a product it will cause noindex and nofollow meta tags to be added to the product page.

You can verify the metatags are in place with a simple query. For example, requesting a product id for a product where you have set this tag will result in something like:

https://mystore.myshopify.com/admin/products/12345/metafields.json

{
  "metafield": {
    "namespace": "seo",
    "key": "hidden",
    "value": 1,
    "type": "number_integer"
  }
}

This works for any resource that supports metafields, not just products. You can use this same technique with Articles, Blogs, Pages, etc.