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Technical SEO on Shopify is mostly about controlling what Google crawls and indexes, then shipping the structured data that earns rich results. These posts cover canonical and duplicate-content control, hreflang for international stores, JSON-LD schema, and the crawl-budget fixes that keep a store ranking instead of sitting in a report.

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  1. How to Hire a Shopify SEO Consultant (2026 Rates, Scope, Red Flags)

    How to hire a Shopify SEO consultant in 2026: real rates from a 439-provider survey, the Shopify-only scope to demand, red flags, and a free hiring scorecard.

  2. Shopify Crawled, Currently Not Indexed: Normal or a Problem?

    Shopify crawled currently not indexed: which URLs are normal, which cost you sales, and the 10-minute triage I run, with real counts from two store audits.

  3. Shopify Organic Traffic Dropped 70%: What the Audit Found

    Shopify organic traffic dropped 70% in 7 months on a real store. Audit found 2 noindexed collections, 348 dead URLs and 232 unindexed pages. Get the free PDF.

  4. How to Block AI Crawlers on Your Shopify Store (GPTBot, 2026)

    GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and Google-Extended crawl your Shopify store by default. Here is how to block the AI crawlers you do not want, and which ones to keep.

  5. WooCommerce to Shopify Migration: The Honest 2026 Guide

    WooCommerce to Shopify migration from an independent developer: real 2026 costs, the 301 redirect map that saves rankings, what breaks, and a free checklist.

  6. Which Shopify Stores Get Agentic Storefronts? (2026 Eligibility)

    Which Shopify stores are eligible for agentic storefronts, the requirements for ChatGPT, Copilot and Google AI Mode, and how to tell if your store is in yet.

  7. Do You Need an llms.txt File on Shopify? (And What Goes In It)

    llms.txt is the emerging standard for telling AI crawlers what to index and cite. Here is whether Shopify lets you serve one, and exactly what to put in it.

  8. Shopify Duplicate Content: Canonical Tags, ?variant URLs, and Pagination (2026)

    Fix Shopify duplicate content from ?variant URLs, collection paths, and pagination. Canonical tag Liquid, GSC verification, and noindex decision tree.

  9. Shopify Hreflang and International SEO: The Markets Setup (2026)

    Shopify Markets auto-generates hreflang tags, but x-default errors and non-reciprocal alternates still wreck international SEO. Audit and fix guide.

  10. I Audited 69 of My Own Shopify Blog Posts. Here Are the 4 Patterns I Keep Finding

    I ran a 4-tier SEO audit on 69 of my own Shopify blog posts. The same patterns kept showing up: low bold density, few outbound links, label H2s, pillar bloat.

  11. Shopify Robots.txt for AI Crawlers: Allow GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot in 2026

    9 of 38 Shopify stores I audited block at least one AI crawler at robots.txt. The search and training user-agents to allow, the Liquid override, and the curl verification.

  12. Shopify Data Quality for AI Citation: The Complete Audit (2026)

    Shopify data quality audit for AI citation: the 9 fields agents scrape via UCP, the 4 schema errors that block citation, and a GTIN audit with bulk fix.

  13. Shopify Article Schema in 30 Lines of Liquid

    30-line Liquid snippet that adds valid BlogPosting schema to every Shopify blog post. Restores Google rich results, no SEO app, no $30 per month fee. 2026 spec.

  14. Shopify GEO Guide: Rank in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI

    What Shopify GEO is and how to do it. AI traffic up 8x in 2026. Get cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews. 7 concrete tactics.

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