I have an eCommerce website built on Shopify. In the blog section, Shopify is automatically generating pagination URLs with very high page numbers, such as:

/blogs/blog?page=1058

These URLs are accessible and return content as soft 404.

This issue is not related to the theme, as confirmed by the theme support team. According to them, pagination is handled by Shopify’s core system.

Why this is a problem

• These URLs are being discovered by Google search Console

• They create unnecessary crawl budget usage

• They may cause duplicate / low-quality pages

• I cannot properly control or restrict them via the theme

What I’ve tried

• I cannot block them using robots.txt because Shopify only allows limited edits and I cannot target dynamic ?page= values effectively

• I checked the Yoast SEO (or other SEO app) options, but there is no way to stop these URLs once they are generated

• I confirmed with theme support that this is not a theme-level issue

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