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Catalyst is BigCommerce's Next.js reference storefront. Here is how to ship it without breaking the SEO that Stencil shipped by default.
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Catalyst is BigCommerce's Next.js reference storefront. Here is how to ship it without breaking the SEO that Stencil shipped by default.

Shopify handles the basics, but ranking requires more. This complete Shopify SEO guide walks store owners through site architecture, content strategy, structured data, and every optimization that actually moves the needle in 2025.

Getting high-quality backlinks directly to your product pages requires a different strategy than blog link building. You have to stop asking for citations and start earning endorsements by treating your product as the content itself.

Optimizing a Shopify product page for SEO is a systematic process of structuring information to prove relevance and quality to search engines. This guide covers the complete checklist to drive qualified traffic and sales, moving beyond platform defaults.

Keyword gap analysis is the process of finding valuable keywords that your ecommerce competitors rank for, but your site does not. This isn't about stealing traffic; it's a structural audit to identify gaps in your content strategy and find the customer needs you currently ignore.

Shopify's default themes only get you partway to rich results. This guide shows exactly which product schema markup fields Google validates, what breaks with variants, and how to fix it.

Stop treating SEO and conversion as separate goals. Effective product descriptions for SEO integrate keywords into benefit-driven copy that answers a shopper's search intent, persuades them to buy, and sends positive ranking signals to Google.

A Shopify XML sitemap is an auto-generated file that helps search engines find all your pages. Shopify creates and updates it for you at yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml - your only job is to submit this file to search engines to improve your store's SEO.

B2B Edition catalogs are quote-only by design. Here is how to rank them without faking pricing - and how customer groups, pricelists, and quote flows interact with crawlers.

BigCommerce B2B Edition's Customer Groups and Price Lists are the right tools for B2B pricing - but they introduce SEO questions about what crawlers should index, what schema should claim, and how to keep gated pricing out of the public layer.

Industrial distributors have a different SEO problem than consumer brands: long buying cycles, technical specs, customer-specific pricing, and an engineer-led buyer journey. What actually moves rankings - and qualified RFQ volume.

Learn more about how a custom eCommerce SEO campaign can generate increases in organic visibility and revenue for a client that provides alternative energy storage solutions.

Growing your business these days means taking a leap from local SEO services to the National stage. Find out what to strategically so your business won't take a dive.

Most AI visibility dashboards track the wrong things - vanity counts of mentions, no competitor context, no engine breakout. The five metrics worth tracking, and the three to stop wasting time on.

Agentic commerce is the shift to AI agents that actually transact on a user's behalf. ACP, AP2, Operator - here's the merchant-side playbook.

AEO is not a buzzword rebrand of SEO. The disciplines share infrastructure but optimize for different surfaces, signals, and outcomes. Here's the real comparison.

Magento Cloud has eight named indexers and a faceted nav that will tank crawl budget if you let it. Here is how to ship both without losing rankings.

Answer Engine Optimization audits aren't a yearly artifact - they need a quarterly cadence to keep pace with how ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini change what they cite. The 8-checkpoint framework we run for clients.

Off-the-shelf AI tools couldn't answer the questions our strategists actually asked. So we built our own platform. This is the story of why - and what it means for the brands we work with.

As anyone would tell you, once you have your business up and running, it is important that you take the time to think about your brand identity and make sure it runs consistently throughout your business. From beginning to end, you want to make your brand's distinct identit

It’s long been known that eCommerce SEO services offer the highest ROI of all marketing channels, and that, on top of that, it’s superior to channels like PPC in other ways, too. Consider that even with the best minds in the business working on an eCommerce PPC management strateg

Recently, one of our copywriters posted a guide on the differences between white hat SEO and black hat SEO. I thought I’d leverage that recency to key in on some specific black hat SEO techniques (some of which are still unfortunately encountered periodically) that will almost de

Search engine optimization is a fundamental strategy for how companies establish authority, enhance visibility, and drive revenue. The differences between white hat and black hat SEO define whether that growth remains stable or becomes vulnerable to penalties and ranking losses.

Something interesting is happening with search right now. People aren’t just clicking links anymore. They’re asking questions and expecting full answers right away. That shift is exactly where AI SEO starts to matter. It’s not just about ranking on Google anymore. It’s about beco