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A blog is an invaluable asset to any online store. Not only do you establish yourself as an expert in some niche but you also create a free source of organic traffic. Once you create keyword-specific content you'll start getting traffic. But making it more targeted requires more than that. When it comes to blogs, schema markup is one of the best ways to achieve that. Today you'll learn what the blog schema markup is and why you should use it. Besides, we'll cover how to implement it in Magento and Shopify blogs to achieve ultimate results. Ready to get started?  What is Blog Schema Markup? Blog schema markup is a snippet of code that specifies the key components of your blog post. The main elements of the schema include the post type, title, publication date, author, description, featured image, etc. The schema markup tells search engines what type of content you post and what components it is made of. Thus, schema markup for posts tells search engines that this is not a regularihor

Making the most of your product pages usually comes down to a lot of aspects. You need to optimize for SEO to get to the top positions and write engaging content. All that on top of the speed optimization, user-friendly page structure and creating irresistible CTAs. Magento product page optimization can feed like a maze, especially for newbies.  Where to start? What to add at the top of your optimization to-do list: SEO or content? What you should do first is STOP trying to work on all these things at the same time. Do it step by step, using the comprehensive product page optimization guide for Magento we've drawn for you. You'll learn how to improve vital SEO aspects with the , speed and product page elements to get the most out of your product pages. Let's get started. What is Product Page Optimization? Product page optimization is a process of auditing and strategically improving your product page design, content and functionality to make it more "converting". Since your end goalihor

You've landed on this page while looking for ways to do your Shopify SEO better, most likely from Google or Bing. You came for answers and the search engine pointed you to the place where you can find them — our blog post. That's basically how it works — you offer a solution and the search engines pair your solution with the searchers' query. But it's not really that easy. For your page to get lots of clicks you have to be at the top of SERP. Getting there requires more than just setting up a website and relying on the . Here you'll find all you need to know about Shopify SEO — the things you need to optimize to generate more organic traffic and . While it seems tedious, you don't need any prior experience with SEO. But let's begin with the SEO basics. Shopify SEO Basics Before you start improving your Shopify SEO you must know how your website is doing and whether it's indexed at all. For that, you need a couple of free tools. Create a Google Search Console Google Search Console (GSC)ihor

If you've compared a few eCommerce platforms, like , before landing on the latter, you probably know that SEO is not Shopify's strongest point. Nonetheless, it does offer you a few critical SEO features. You should know how to leverage them to and other search engines to drive more organic traffic. Today, we'll cover all the default Shopify SEO options and determine whether they're enough to rank at the top of the search results page (SERP). XML Sitemap is the first communication Google and other search engines ever have with your store. It's a directory they use to discover your website pages, crawl and index them. Shopify generates and updates an XML sitemap for you automatically. But unfortunately, you can't edit or add any custom sitemap. You can find your sitemap by adding the "/sitemap.xml" to your domain, like in: e.g. domain.com/sitemap.xml Robot.txt File Robots.txt is another automatically generated file Shopify offers. It provides directives for the web crawlers on pages you wantihor

You might have a website with a stunning loading speed, attractive design, well-crafted content and a unique variety of products. But it's all good as long as people can discover your store. That's what you need Shopify XML sitemap for — to help search engines discover, crawl and index your website.  While XML sitemap is a must for your Shopify SEO, it's not the only way to . We'll get to that right after we cover what is an XML sitemap, why you need it and how to manage it in your Shopify store. Ready to start? What is a Shopify Sitemap? Shopify sitemap is an XML file that contains all your website links — products, collections, pages, and blogs. It serves as a directory for the search engines where they can retrieve data about your pages (when they were last updated, whether there's an alternative page, etc.). Note: XML sitemap is generated automatically in Shopify and can't be edited. Here's what it looks like: What's in the Sitemap? Shopify categorizes the XML sitemap into logicalihor

Everyone wants to get to the top of SERP to receive tons of traffic. But a few realize that website speed plays a huge part in that. You can improve your , optimize structured data and write great content but still don't get the expected results. All because your Magento is slow.  Today, we'll uncover the reason why is Magento slow and talk about things you shouldn't do if you want to get to the Google PageSpeed "green" zone. Let's get right to it. 1. Insufficient Hosting Magento is a resource-based platform and has certain server requirements that need to be met. That's why the first and most common reason for Magento's slow performance is a poorly configured server and limited resources. Something your is responsible for.  Your Magento must have enough disk space, RAM, and CPU power for your store to load fast. Besides, improperly configured web servers like Apache and Ngnix, MySQL, PHP, etc can lead to loading delays and other issues along the way.  Finally, your hosting mightihor

In 2026 search and users' search behaviour are driven by AI and conversational queries. That means Magento SEO best practices change fast. Although Magento has a lot of built-in SEO features, they're no longer enough on their own. To rank, drive clicks and get featured in AI overviews and cited by LLMs like ChatGPT and Perplexity, you need a more structured SEO strategy. In this SEO guide for Magento, you'll learn how to optimise for technical, on-page and off-page SEO and how to structure your content for search engines and AI models. If you want a shortcut, by Magefan covers most of these optimisations. Otherwise, let's start. Default Magento 2 SEO Settings Magento comes with some solid built-in SEO features that serve as a foundation for SEO best practices in Magento. While they won't replace your entire SEO strategy, it's essential to configure them properly for crawling, indxing and ranking. XML sitemap: generate and auto-update . It helps search engines discover and crawl your catalogueihor

Creating lots of keyword-optimized content makes it more likely for your to get into the top SERP position. But only on one condition — Google and other search engines can discover and index your pages. The faster that happens the higher the chances of ranking at the top. Quite a few things contribute to that. Today we'll discuss how to get Google to index your Shopify store and what to do if it doesn't. We'll cover the basic indexing methods and the advanced indexing API for those who want to get indexed faster. So, just skip the first steps if you've already submitted your website to Google. Ready to start? How Google Crawling and Indexing Works? Before we cover the ways to index your store in Google, let's make sure we know how search engines discover your content in the first place. Step 1: Discover — Google discovers that your website exists through the sitemaps you submit to it or the backlinks you have from other websites.  Step 2: Crawl — Google bot visits your website and downloadsihor

Once you decide to you have to be ready to invest a lot of effort and time to get your website visible online and drive relevant traffic. There are multiple channels to achieve this, but Google Shopping stands out the most. It is a product distribution channel that allows you to expose your products to a wider audience, increase conversion rates and sell more in a long run. However, how do you create Google Shopping Feed in Magento 2 if this feature isn't supported?  Moving products to Google Merchant Center one by one would be a tough call. So we introduce the Extension to make your life easier.  And in this post, you'll learn everything about what is Magento Google Shopping Feed and how to set it up. What is Google Shopping Feed?  Google Shopping Feed is a list of products along with their information like descriptions, prices, and other attributes that are used to export your products to different distribution channels. It reduces manual product management, helps Google understandihor

Ranking in Google takes more than keyword-optimized meta tags. Website navigation, speed, design and customer experience count too. That is exactly what Mibike had to go through to get a favourable search position, increase organic traffic and automate their SEO efforts. Today, we'll explore the story of one of the biggest Ukrainian motorcycle gear stores and see how Magefan helped to shape its SEO profile into what it is today. Let's get right to it. Background Website: mybike.ua Industry: Motorcycle gear Location: Ukraine Optimization tools used: Magento 2 SEO and Magento 2 GTM Extensions This journey started with a small retail store in September 2013. "Our store offered just a small number of helmets, jackets, gloves, etc. But that wasn't a Mybike store yet... Let's call it an experience.", say our clients. The Mybike store appeared almost 4 years later. Today it is an official retailer of all the world's most famous brands in terms of motorcycle equipment. There is a brick-and-mortarihor

Although it was enough to submit an to Google to help it discover your website links, now you need more than that. Especially if your website is new or doesn't have a ton of backlinks.  That's when the comes in handy. It helps you connect your Shopify to Google Indexing API and send content to Google directly (without having to go to Google Search Console for every single URL).  Thus, today, you'll learn how to get your Shopify store indexed by Google faster by employing this technology. Important: before we start sending pages to Google directly, you need to and connect it with your store.  Once the API connection is established, you can move to the indexing step. Request Indexing for Individual Pages The app works with products and collections. So you can send indexing requests directly from the admin pages.  Just navigate to Products and choose a product you want to send for indexing. Then hit a corresponding option in the More actions dropdown. Request Indexing for Multipleihor

Whether your store is new or long established it usually takes days and even weeks to see changes appear in search. Why? Because the majority of websites rely on a sitemap that is not the fastest way to .  That's why Google offer a solution — Google Indexing API. It helps you bypass the crawling key and sends your changes directly to Google so they are reflected in SERP faster.  Eager to find out more? Today you'll learn how to set up Google Indexing API for Shopify and discover reasons why you need to do that.  Since Google Indexing API is not as simple as it sounds, let's define what that is first. What is Google Indexing API? Google Indexing API is a technology introduced by the platform to help you notify Google directly about new, updated or deleted pages. When you send an indexing request through the API, Google schedules a fresh crawl bypassing the crawling key. Since changes are sent to Google directly, content appears in search results faster. However, Google still recommendsihor

Standing out in search takes a lot of effort beyond metadata. You also need to . But not just any snippets. Those that drive the most attention such as product snippet, and organization snippet. All of them make you eligible for rich results and make searches more likely to notice you.  Today, we'll talk about the latter — organization snippet and how you can add it in Magento.  What is Organization Schema Markup? Organization Schema markup is a standardized structured data in HTML format that tells both search engines and humans about your organization or company. While it's not a ranking factor, it helps Google to understand your website better and show it for relevant queries.  Organization schema also makes you eligible for a number of rich results and knowledge panels which allows users to quickly notice and engage with you. How to Add Organization Markup in Magento? You can try the coding way. But if you're not a technical person, it's going to take a while to figure outihor

While the ultimate goal is to get your blog to the highest positions, not all blog pages need to be visible in search results. In both cases though you need meta robots or robots meta tags. So, today you'll learn what meta robots are and how to add them without any coding, using only the . But first, let's define what these robots are and why you need them. What are Meta Robots? Meta robots or robots meta tags are the directives added to the HTML of the page. They tell web crawlers what they can or can't do on a certain page. In other words, they tell web crawlers how to crawl and index a page in search results.  You can't see meta robots since they are added to the page's <head>, code part. Nonetheless, you need them to define: whether a page appears in the search results whether crawlers should follow links on a page whether a snippet of a page should be displayed in SERP whether images on a page are indexed Note: Shopify blog meta robots are always INDEX, FOLLOW by default. This meansihor

While your store URLs constantly undergo different changes one thing often gets overlooked — URL rewrites. When you change the page location or start using higher-value keywords according to the you need to direct visitors to a new URL. That's exactly what you need the Magento 2 URL rewrites for. Today you'll learn everything about the topic and discover how to automatically handle URL rewrites in Magento. What is Magento URL Rewrite? Magento URL rewrite is a default SEO tool that allows you to change any product, category and CMS page URL and redirect visitors from all old URLs to new ones. It's also a great way to customize page URLs with keywords to make them more SEO-friendly but not lose any traffic or potential of the old URL.  There are two types of Magento URL rewrites that are different in the number of rewrites you can create at once. Single URL rewrite Single URL rewrite refers to the process of creating a rewrite for a specific page. It helps you to make URLs more SEO- andihor

Very often the reason for the slow page loading is either a disabled cache or a cache generated every time a page is loaded. While you can enable the , it doesn't fix the issue ultimately. You need a solution to keep your warm regardless of the circumstances. That's exactly what the offers. It imitates user behaviour to make sure a "fresh" version of the page is always loaded from the cache.  So, today, you'll learn how to set up the cache warmer in Magento. The process basically comes down to a few options since the rest of them are already filled out for you. Step 1: Install and Enable the Extension The first step to better cache management is the . After that, you just need to enable it and review the default settings that are already set up. For that navigate to Stores > Configuration > Magefan Extensions > Page Cache Warmer > General.  Step 2: Create Warmup Combinations Our Magento 2 Cache Warmer automatically ranks your pages based on the number of visits and warms them up firstihor

It's not a secret that people are more likely to buy from a website in their local language. This means that offering only one language you lose not only sales but international growth opportunities.  However, translating hundreds or thousands of products and pages is expensive, time-consuming and hard to maintain. That's where Google Translate Integration for Magento comes in handy. So, in this guide, you'll learn everything about the Magento Google Translate Integration, whether it's worth it, and how to set it up the easiest way possible — through the . But let's start from the beginning. What is Magento Google Translate Integration? Magento Google Translate Integration is a process of incorporating the Google Translate technology (through API or a widget) into Magento in order to automatically translate website content into multiple languages. There are two integration approaches. Google Translate widget (free) It's a website add-on that translates content for visitors on the flyihor

Standing out in search is not easy. But Google makes it a little easier with the rich results that you're eligible for only if you use structured data. It could be the , or product rich snippets.  However, today you'll learn how to add event-structured data in Magento using only the tool (no coding required). Let's get right to it. Add Event Structured Data in Magento 1. Navigate to any page you'd like to add the structured data to and find the widgets tool in the Content section.  2. Choose the Event Rich Snippet by Magefan as the Widget Type and fill out the Widget Options.  3. Specify the Event Name, Description, Start and End Dates. 4. Set the Attendance Mode — Standard Online, Offline or Mixed (Online and Offline) Event. 5. Choose the event Type: Scheduled Rescheduled Postponed Moved Online Cancelled 6. Provide details about the Location of your event: Location Name Street Address Address Locality  Postal Code Address Region Address Country 7. Give information about theihor

When your visitors come across a broken link the first thing they do is go back if not leave altogether. It signals to search engines that your website is not relevant enough and discourages people from coming back. So you have to find a solution. Fast. While you can find 404 pages and for them you can't get rid of them altogether. However, you can automate the process and stop creating multiple redirects manually.  Thus, today you'll learn how to create SEO redirect rules using the ultimate Extension. Create Redirect Rules in Magento 1. Navigate to Marketing > SEO by Magefan > SEO Redirect Rules and hit the Add New SEO Redirect Rule button. 2. Enable the rule, and give it a Name and Priority. 3. Choose the Pattern Type — Simple (use *) or Regex (regular expressions). Simple — supports basic wildcard matching (e.g. *) and is ideal for straightforward one-to-one redirects.  Regex — supports advanced wildcard matching ( e.g. ^ (start), $ (end), (), [], |, etc.) and is ideal for handlingihor

Although you can , ad blockers and cookie restrictions often prevent you from getting accurate data.  To avoid that, you need to set up Magento Facebook Conversion API — a smarter and more sustainable tracking. In this guide, you'll learn what is the Facebook Conversion API, why you need it and how to set it up using the by Magefan. What is Facebook Conversions API? Facebook Conversions API is a tool that allows you to send events from multiple channels from your server to Facebook Conversion API endpoints. This bypasses all browser technologies that block tracking and helps you get more reliable data about user behaviour across all of your channels. In short, Facebook Conversions API creates a direct connection between your marketing data (website, app, CRM) and Meta technologies. Why Do You Need Conversions API? Facebook Conversion API is a technology that allows you to track data more accurately, so you can get multiple benefits, like: Improved measurement — since all data sourcesihor

With hundreds of stores launching every day, standing out in the eCommerce crowd is hard these days. Every other store struggles to generate sales and reach its goals. All because of one reason — fierce competition.  Merchants experiment with different sales and marketing strategies to get more sales. But industries differ and so do the product types. So there is no one-size-fits-all approach that works for everyone.  To tackle that challenge we've gathered proven methods to increase sales in Magento in one place. Evaluate them based on your business, customers, their needs and your products to choose what works best for you. Excited to start? Let's go. 1. Make Your Website Faster The majority of websites invest in "ultimate customer experience" by adding extensive design and functionality. While in reality speed and SEO are two pillars your organic traffic stands on. The math is simple — the faster your website, the more likely customers are to complete the purchase. Google pageihor