The StoreCanary blog
Field notes on the technical SEO failures that produce zero visible symptoms — until your traffic pays for them.
Your Shopify product page redirects to the homepage — and Merchant Center just disapproved it
Out-of-stock apps that redirect a product to your homepage kill its SEO, trigger a Merchant Center landing page mismatch, and lose the sale. A real case, and the fix.
Read the article →The phantom noindex: how Shopify apps silently hide your products from Google
A product that used to rank vanishes from Google — no penalty email, nothing in Shopify admin. Where the seo.hidden metafield and rogue app rules actually come from, and how to catch it in minutes.
Read the article →Your review stars disappeared from Google? The 5 Shopify causes
Your yellow stars vanished from the search results with no warning. The 5 real causes — duplicate schema, broken JSON-LD, a theme update — plus a 2-minute self-check.
Read the article →Products disapproved in Google Merchant Center: the price mismatch trap
Dozens of listings disapproved for "inconsistent value" even though nothing changed. The real cause: your page quietly tells Google three different prices at once.
Read the article →Vos étoiles ont disparu de Google ? Les 5 causes sur Shopify
Les étoiles jaunes sous votre fiche produit ont disparu sans email ni alerte. Les 5 causes réelles côté Shopify, et comment vérifier vous-même en 2 minutes.
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