In the No Index Settings page, you can set a No Index tag for global tagged pages that Google normally would consider as duplicates of another page in your store:
No Index On Search Pages
No Index On Collection Tag Pages
No Index On Blog Tag Pages
No Index On Vendor Search Pages
We recommend keeping all of these enabled. Only disable them if you have an SEO specialist who specifically needs those pages indexed.
If you want to add a noindex tag to your products, collections, or other pages, you can do that in SmartSEO -> Indexing -> Sitemap by excluding or including them.
Excluding a page here does two things:
Removes the page's URL from your sitemap.xml
Adds a noindex tag ( <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"> ) to that page's HTML, telling search engines not to index the page or follow its links
If the page is already indexed, adding the noindex tag alone won't remove it immediately; Google needs to recrawl the page first. To speed this up, you can use the Removals tool in Google Search Console to temporarily hide the page from search results (up to ~6 months) while Google recrawls and picks up the noindex tag for permanent removal.