One over-arching theme I've seen since Google's latest structured data update has been the value of having your store's structured data handled by a specialized Shopify app. Sure you could hope you find a theme with that data built-in. Or use an app that includes it as a bullet point...
With any migration, major change, or even just moving around products it's easy to break product urls. Shopify does an okay job of catching and setting up redirects automatically but sometimes they miss a few or the moves are complex enough that they get confused. Here's how you can test...
With all the writing and email marketing I do, I've had to quickly improve how I create my titles. I don't have the luxury of taking days to create the perfect title. Here's the system I use. Draft 3-5 basic titles that give the gist of the article. Pick the...
Recently while looking over a Shopify store I was reminded of one of Google's quality guidelines: Don't deceive your users. I'm not going to get into what the store was doing because that's not the point (and hopefully they'll fix their store now that they know the rules). What does...
A JSON-LD for SEO customer Tom wrote in: To cut a long story short I've started to notice quite a few images (in google image search) that are definitely taken from my site, but link to other (spam) sites. My concern is that on some of the examples the title...
Updating the content of your page titles and meta description can have a significant impact on your Shopify store's SEO. Lin asks a related question: Does it matter that I write the keywords in the "Page Title" section or the "Meta Description" section? Can the words be repetitive for the...
Every now and then while helping JSON-LD for SEO customers, I see some who have enabled their store passwords. Enabling your store password for any extended period of time will wreck your SEO. If you need to enable it for a couple of hours or maybe a day while you...
My website is over 11 years old. In that time it's created a lot of links and gone through several reorganizations. And those reorganizations broke a lot of those links. If you've ever reorganized your Shopify store's products, collections, or changed your theme, there's a good chance you have some...
Recently I was talking with a business owner who was seeing some significant revenue growth. He wasn't sure exactly why because he rolled out a lot of changes recently: a redesign, better sales copy, and SEO work. When we went over his sales funnel, we found that the majority of...
Recently a customer emailed asking about how to get started with SEO with their new Shopify store. The SEO fundamentals like the title, description, and plenty of content are important. It's common to under-estimate how important those are. Once you've done that, the other major fundamental component is building links...
Each tip includes a way to improve your store: customer analysis, analytics, customer acquisition, CRO... plus plenty of puns and amazing alliterations.