How SEO is treated for Custom Signs in Shopify
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Sign Customiser hides the custom sign products it creates from search engines. For each product that the app creates in your Shopify store, the app sets the Shopify product metafield seo.hidden to 1. Shopify then adds noindex and nofollow tags to the product page. Shopify also removes the product from your sitemap. You do not need to do anything for this.
What this does not hide
The seo.hidden metafield affects search engines and storefront search results. It does not change the product status. While the product status is Active, the product can appear in your store catalogue and in your collections.
The app does not set the product type to “hidden”. The app also does not change the rules of the automatic collections that you made.
Hide new products from your storefront
To hide new products from your storefront, set Default Product Status to Unlisted in your Shopify integration before the app creates them. The setting does not change products that already exist. Unlisted products get the same noindex and nofollow tags. Unlisted products also stay out of your sitemap. Shopify removes them from storefront search, collections, and recommendations. Customers can still buy them.
For the steps, read Hide Custom Sign Products from Your Storefront.