With any migration, major change, or even just moving around products it’s easy to break product urls. Shopify does an okay job of catching and setting up redirects automatically but sometimes they miss a few or the moves are complex enough that they get confused. Here’s how you can test if your redirects are working …
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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. 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. I’ve written about how to find missing pages and create the …

301 Moving Day – make sure you redirect your Shopify urls when migrating
Surrounded by boxes. As part of the move I had to change our address. Luckily the US Postal Service has a service called mail forwarding where for $1 they will automatically forward all mail from your old address to your new address. It’s an easy way to keep getting the mail and to remind yourself …