Fed Up With Multiple Website Issues

Poppy7 — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 11:15:50 GMT

I have had my Square Online website for several years, and it is STILL suffering from indexing issues. Google Search Console is STILL reporting multiple indexing problems that I can't fix from the Square dashboard.

Square is generating incorrect category URLs, and is also adding noindex tags to categories and product pages that I cannot remove. These are preventing Google indexing.

Google Search Console reports "Excluded by 'noindex' tag" for many of my category pages and product pages. There is nowhere in Square to remove a noindex tag from category pages or product pages.

Categories and products have always been set to visible and available online at the time they were created, yet STILL this issue persists. According to Square's own documentation, categories should be indexable, but Google is still receiving a noindex directive that I have no control over and cannot remove.

Another issue is that instead of using the clean public category URL, category pages have a URL that has a very long string at the end of the category name like: cards/UJBMISTYQBLURVUI0QL4NUU0

That long string is Square's internal category ID. Why is Square doing this??????

This is also happening to every product page - a long string is being added to the end of the product name like: /product/card/297?cp=true&sa=false&sbp=false&q=false&category_id=5

Again - why is Square doing this??????

I am FED UP with Square issues blocking my site from being indexed.

I can see previous Community threads from other sellers reporting the same noindex issue dating back several years, so this appears to be a well known issue with Square that does not seem to have been fixed.

Can someone from the technical team please take this issue seriously, and fix it. I am FED UP.

Re: Fed Up With Multiple Website Issues

JTPets — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 11:58:48 GMT

There are some early beta tests for Square website improvements in the works.

Hopefully by end of year some public info will be available as I am not even fully in the loop and I test a ton of things. But I agree with the sentiment here

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