How often should I audit a Shopify store?

Monthly for an active catalog, and always after a theme change, a bulk import or an app installation. Those three events cause most new findings.

Is a free Shopify SEO audit enough?

A free audit is enough to see the size and shape of the problem. What it cannot do is apply the repairs — that requires write access to your store content.

Audit guide

Shopify SEO audit: what to check and in what order

A Shopify SEO audit is a structured crawl of your storefront plus a read of your catalog data, ending in a prioritised list of issues you can act on. This page describes the exact sequence a thorough audit follows and what a finding in each stage means.

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Stage 1 — crawlability

Start at robots.txt and the XML sitemap. Shopify generates /sitemap.xml automatically and splits it into products, collections, pages and blogs. Confirm every sitemap child loads, returns 200 and lists only canonical, indexable URLs. Then check that no important template is blocked and that the store is not still password-protected — a surprising number of audits end here.

Stage 2 — indexability and canonicals

Every product reachable through several collections gets several URLs. Shopify sets a canonical to the /products/handle form, but themes and apps can override it. Check that the canonical is self-referencing on canonical URLs and points to the primary URL everywhere else, and that no noindex tag has been injected into templates.

Stage 3 — content signals

Title tag present, unique, roughly 45–60 characters, main term near the front.
Meta description present, unique, roughly 120–155 characters, written for the click.
Exactly one H1 per page that matches the page's subject.
Body content that actually contains the words the H1 promises.

Stage 4 — links, images, schema, speed

Crawl every internal link and record the status code. Collect every img tag and check for a non-empty alt attribute and a sane file size. Parse every JSON-LD block and validate it against schema.org. Finally measure real page weight, render-blocking scripts and Core Web Vitals on a representative product page — not just the homepage.

StoreFix detects this class of issue during the audit, applies the safe repair through the Shopify Admin API, stores the previous value so you can undo it, and re-runs the audit to confirm the fix landed.

Frequently asked questions

How often should I audit a Shopify store?: Monthly for an active catalog, and always after a theme change, a bulk import or an app installation. Those three events cause most new findings.
Is a free Shopify SEO audit enough?: A free audit is enough to see the size and shape of the problem. What it cannot do is apply the repairs — that requires write access to your store content.

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