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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. Shopify Price Mismatch in Google Merchant Center: The Real Causes

    Shopify price mismatch in Google Merchant Center comes from 4 prices that disagree: feed, page, schema, checkout. The 7 Shopify causes, the check, the fix.

  2. Shopify Developer for Jewelry Stores: What a Fine Jeweler Needed Fixed

    Shopify developer for a jewelry store? A real fine jeweler case study: 25,285 duplicate links, a broken metal picker, and all 5 Core Web Vitals green.

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

    Hire a Shopify SEO expert in 2026: what Shopify SEO services cost (a 439-provider survey), the Shopify-only scope to demand, red flags, and a free scorecard.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. WooCommerce and WordPress to Shopify Migration: The Honest 2026 Guide

    How to migrate WooCommerce or a WordPress site to Shopify in 2026: what transfers, real costs, the 301 redirect map that saves rankings, and a free checklist.

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

  11. 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.

  12. 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.

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

    9 of 38 Shopify stores I audited block an AI crawler in robots.txt. Which search and training bots to allow, the Liquid override and the curl check.

  14. 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.

  15. 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.

  16. 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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