Fixing your broken Shopify urls in bulk

Creating URL redirects is important when you migrate to Shopify or make any significant changes to your store links.

By using them you capture any traffic to the old pages. If you forget them, that traffic is lost and eventually Google will deindex those pages.

Here’s an article about how to find missing pages and create the redirects but it can be a lot of work if you have a lot of missing pages.

Luckily, Shopify now has a way to bulk add them using a CSV spreadsheet. All without installing and paying for an app.

To use this, go to your URL Redirects like normal (Shopify Admin -> Online Store -> Navigation -> View URL redirects).

In there is a link to Import that’ll let you upload a CSV file to Shopify with your redirects.

The file it needs is simple, one column for the old url and one column for the new url. Shopify even lets you download a template you can fill out.

Combining this with a regular review of your Google Search Console and Google Analytics can help ensure your not losing any traffic to missing pages.

Another major problem that comes from switching themes is having your structured data messed up.

As it is most Shopify themes don’t have the data to quality for Google’s Rich Results so they lose out on highly visible SEO enhancements.

But then whenever you switch themes, you’re search results are at risk of losing the Rich Results they received.

If you're archiving or deleting old products in Shopify, consider keeping the product page live and linking to an alternative product. This keeps your hard earned SEO and builds internal links making your SEO even better.