A running record of improvements to product SEO, AI-answer readiness, technical audits, and Shopify workflows.
October 2026
Ready for AI shopping agents
Shopping agents in ChatGPT, Copilot and other AI channels find Shopify products through Shopify's own catalog, not your theme. Yieldso now shows what that catalog holds for your store, and what may be keeping products out of it.
On every plan, a daily count of your Online Store products that are in Shopify's AI catalog, as Yieldso last read it. Each missing product gets its likely cause from your own data (no price, sold out, no image, or just added), because Shopify doesn't say why it leaves one out.
A store eligibility checklist built from Shopify's published requirements for AI channels: policies with real text, US shipping, no storefront password and product basics. Each one is marked Met, Not met or Improve, and settings apps can't read are marked Check in admin, with where to look.
Visits from links in Shopify's catalog now count as their own AI source, Shopify Catalog, on the AI visibility page, in AI-referred orders and in change results.
The free store audit has a new AI shopping agents section: whether a store is in Shopify's AI catalog, how the graded product looks to agents (listed, rated, sold out, and the specs Shopify's AI wrote for it), and the policies agents link to.
Products with no category are listed with a suggested one, checked by AI on Growth and Pro, and a link to set it in Shopify admin. Missing Color, Size and Target gender values, which agents filter on, are listed with suggested values too.
See what Shopify's AI says about each product, with any figure your page never states flagged, on every plan. On Growth and Pro, each line is checked against your product details, and a wrong one can be answered with a staged description fix that restates your own fact. Shopify's AI may take days to update.
When other stores sell the same item in one catalog listing, every plan shows how many do. On Pro, you also see whose offer agents feature and where your price and rating sit among the others, as last observed, and products that look like a branded item but sit in a listing of their own are flagged.
October 2026
Speed fixes for the new Lighthouse, and a shopper's view
Store speed keeps up with Google's latest Lighthouse, and the free store audit now looks at your store the way a first-time buyer does.
Google's PageSpeed Insights moved to Lighthouse 13, which renamed most of the checks speed fixes come from. Yieldso reads the new ones, so image, render-blocking, caching, font and largest-image fixes are back in your fix list.
Two new speed fixes: forced reflows, with the scripts that make the browser redo layout while the page loads, and long request chains, with the requests along the slowest one.
The time each app or tag adds is now shown as main-thread time, the figure Lighthouse measures, rather than blocking time.
The free store audit has a shopper's view: trust signals, the answers a product page gives, navigation, checkout signals and your theme's colour contrast. Anything that would stop a shopper buying is listed in the summary.
The shopper's view also flags home-page product links that go through a collection instead of straight to the product page, with the theme fix.
New free tool: the Shopify redirect CSV builder. Paste old and new URLs and get a file Shopify's redirect import accepts, with chains collapsed and loops, conflicts and duplicates left out. It runs in your browser.
September 2026
AI visibility figures you can trust
The AI visibility numbers are stricter about what they count, and say how solid each one is.
Paid ChatGPT ad clicks are now counted separately, so your ad spend never shows up as AI visibility or as a fix working.
AI visits are grouped by the kind of page they land on. Account and login pages are left out, and AI visits that hit a 404 get their own card linking to redirects.
Every headline figure carries a label saying where it comes from: measured, a minimum, Google, Bing, lab data, an estimate or AI.
Change results now include AI visits and AI-referred orders when they were measured for the whole period before the change.
A new check flags product pages whose price, description or reviews only appear after JavaScript runs, which many AI crawlers never see.
Added a brand fact sheet in Settings. Fill it in once and it feeds your llms.txt and store profile.
September 2026
See what AI assistants send your store
A new AI visibility view, built from your own store's traffic rather than guesses about what an assistant might say.
Visits from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot, Claude and other assistants, by assistant and landing page, on every plan.
Optional order tracking: switch it on and Yieldso counts orders from AI-referred visits, only with the shopper's analytics consent.
A count of which AI crawlers fetch your llms.txt, out of 21 known crawlers.
llms.txt now follows the llmstxt.org format, with sections for collections, policies, FAQs and guides, and updates as your catalogue changes.
On Growth and Pro, articles and pages are checked section by section: does each one actually answer its heading, and is it specific enough to quote?
September 2026
Deeper audits, richer structured data
The site audit covers more of your store, and the structured data says more about each product.
Crawls now reach up to 300 pages on Free, 2,000 on Growth and 10,000 on Pro, start from your sitemap, and pick up where they left off.
New checks for external broken links, redirect chains and loops, duplicate collection URLs, indexable tag pages, noindex, and hreflang on multi-region stores.
Oversized images are now measured against the size they're actually shown at on a phone, not just their file size.
Edit robots.txt from the app, and publish an HTML sitemap page, both with one-click revert. Editing robots.txt needs a theme permission you grant only if you use it.
Structured data now covers each variant's own price and stock, your shipping and returns terms, and ratings read from your reviews app. Ratings are never invented.
On Growth and Pro, store speed covers the three busiest pages per template on mobile and desktop, and names slow apps from the ones you actually have installed.
September 2026
Know what to do first
One ranked list of what's worth doing, and better guidance on what to write.
Fixes, search terms and recommendations now share one priority list. Home shows how much of your opportunity the top actions cover.
On Growth and Pro, Performance → Search terms sorts every search term your products appear for into four groups: worth adding, don't claim, better as an article, or could mean something else.
Winnable searches, on every plan: the searches a store your size can realistically win, with branded and already-won ones filtered out.
Decaying content is diagnosed with a seasonality check first, and stale or thin pages now get a drafted fix too.
On Pro, a content calendar schedules article drafts from the searches you can win. Every product claim in a draft is checked against your catalogue.
September 2026
Better fixes, and proof they worked
Suggested fixes are written for your store and checked against your data, and every fix type is now measured.
On Growth and Pro, meta titles, descriptions and alt text are written by AI from each product's own facts and real searches, and checked against those facts before you see them.
Set a brand voice (tone, formality and words to avoid) and suggested copy follows it. Avoided words are never used.
Approve fixes for a whole product type, vendor or tag at once. High-risk fixes are skipped and listed with the reason.
A full change log of every write, with its before and after value, who approved it and when, exportable to CSV.
Every fix type now gets a before-and-after result measured from the day it was applied, and reverting a fix cancels its result.
Search Console history now goes back about 16 months when you first connect.
September 2026
A clearer way to grow Shopify search visibility
Yieldso now brings product SEO, content readiness, technical audits, and AI-answer readiness into one approval-first workflow.
Introduced the Free, Growth, and Pro plan structure for Shopify merchants.
Added clearer catalogue and content limits for products, articles, and pages.
Standardised plan billing at $39/month for Growth and $149/month for Pro.
Kept one website and one member per store while the product focuses on the merchant's own Shopify site.
September 2026
Connect the search data behind your decisions
Search Console and Bing Webmaster connections make it easier to compare visibility with the issues Yieldso finds.
Made Google Search Console connections available across all plans.
Added Bing Webmaster data-source support for multi-engine comparison.
Connected search performance signals to product and content opportunities.
Kept connections read-only: Yieldso never publishes to search-engine tools.
September 2026
Review every fix before it reaches your store
The Shopify workflow now makes suggested changes easier to inspect, approve, and undo.
Improved staged fixes for titles, descriptions, tags, and image alt text.
Added reversible change history so original values remain available.
Expanded structured-data and broken-link workflows for products and content.
Structured data is output through Yieldso's theme app embed, which you switch on in the theme editor, rather than edits to your theme code.
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