Compliance & Trust
Auditing Your Shopify Apps for AI-Indexing Impact
Installed Shopify apps can block AI crawlers, slow render, and inject unindexable content. Here is how to audit every app so AI engines can read your store.
Lawrence Dauchy··6 min
Technical GEO
Should You Block or Allow AI Crawlers on Shopify?
A clear robots.txt decision guide for Shopify stores: which AI crawlers to allow, which to consider blocking, and why most stores want to be cited in AI search.
Lawrence Dauchy··7 min
Technical GEO
Does site speed affect AI search visibility on Shopify?
AI engines do not rank you on a speed score, but slow, fragile pages fail to be crawled and read. Here is how speed really affects a Shopify store's AI visibility.
Lawrence Dauchy··4 min
Technical GEO
Dynamic schema injection on Shopify for AI search
Generate Product, Offer, Organization, and FAQ JSON-LD dynamically on Shopify with Liquid and metafields so AI crawlers that skip JavaScript still read it.
Lawrence Dauchy··7 min
Technical GEO
The ecommerce LLMO technical checklist for Shopify
A prioritized technical checklist for making a Shopify store readable and citable by LLMs: crawl access, server rendering, schema, sitemaps, llms.txt, and speed.
Lawrence Dauchy··7 min
Technical GEO
Technical AEO for Shopify: Fix Yourself or Hire an Architect
A technical AEO checklist for Shopify: the schema, crawl, and feed fixes you can do in-house, plus the honest signals that it is time to hire an architect.
Lawrence Dauchy··6 min
Technical GEO
How to add an llms.txt file to Shopify (and whether it works)
llms.txt gives AI models a curated map of your store, but Shopify will not let you drop a file at the root. Here are the working methods, plus an honest take on whether it helps.
Lawrence Dauchy··6 min
Technical GEO
How to feed product manual PDFs to ChatGPT bots
Your manuals and spec sheets answer the questions shoppers ask AI, but trapped in a PDF they are hard to read. Here is how to make manual content readable and citable by AI engines.
Lawrence Dauchy··5 min
Technical GEO
Internal linking for AI search on Shopify
AI engines understand your store partly through how its pages connect. Here is how deliberate internal linking turns a Shopify catalog into a topical authority AI recognizes.
Lawrence Dauchy··4 min
Technical GEO
AI-crawlers toelaten in robots.txt op Shopify
GPTBot blokkeren kost je zichtbaarheid in ChatGPT-zoeken. Zo laat je de juiste AI-crawlers toe in je Shopify-robots.txt en blijf je vindbaar.
Lawrence Dauchy··4 min
Technical GEO
Wat is llms.txt en hoe stel je het in op Shopify?
llms.txt geeft AI-modellen een kaart van je belangrijkste Shopify-pagina's. Zo maak en publiceer je het bestand via een URL-omleiding in Shopify.
Lawrence Dauchy··4 min
Technical GEO
Rate limit AI crawlers on Shopify without going invisible
AI crawlers can hammer a Shopify store, but blocking them removes you from AI answers. Here is how to rate limit LLM indexers so the load is sustainable and you stay visible.
Lawrence Dauchy··5 min
Technical GEO
Structured data mistakes that block AI search on Shopify
Schema can make you invisible to AI when it is wrong. Here are the common Shopify structured data mistakes that block AI search, why they hurt, and how to fix them.
Lawrence Dauchy··4 min
Technical GEO
How to track AI crawler traffic on Shopify with server logs
Analytics hides bots, so it cannot tell you if AI engines crawl you. Here is how to track GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, and other AI crawlers in your Shopify server logs.
Lawrence Dauchy··4 min