Google indexing error: "Alternate page with proper canonical tag"

Online Store and Theme Development
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Started getting this indexing error: “Alternate page with proper canonical tag” a couple options I was directed to do. **What is the best path forward? Option 1 or 2? **
Thank you

Option 1: create a new robots.txt.liquid template. It’s becomes an “add-on” to the existing default robots.txt created by Shopify.

Read this for more details: https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/promoting-marketing/seo/editing-robots-txt

In the robots.txt.liquid, embed before

{%- if group.sitemap != blank -%}
{{ group.sitemap }}
{%- endif -%}
{% endfor %}

the following (or any others):

Disallow: ?page=
After you save, the final robots.txt should exclude those pages.

Option 2:
Code change in my theme editor…

{%- if part.is_link -%}
  <li>
    <a
      href="{{ part.url }}{{ anchor }}"

change to

{%- if part.is_link -%}
  {%- if part.title == '1' -%}
    {%- assign page_url = part.url | remove: '?page=1' | remove: '&page=1' -%}
  {%- else -%}
    {%- assign page_url = part.url -%}
  {%- endif -%}
  <li>
    <a
      href="{{ page_url }}{{ anchor }}"

What this does:

  • Checks if the page number is ‘1’

  • If yes, removes the ?page=1 parameter from the URL

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Hi @Michael_Deslyper

What theme are you using? Depending on the theme, one of the options might be preferred?

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I am using the Trade theme.