Shopify SEO for Large Ecommerce Sites: an Architecture Guide August 31, 2026 by Wade SEO for large ecommerce sites is mostly an architecture problem. With thousands of products, search engines cannot crawl, index and rank every URL equally, so the sites that win decide deliberately which pages deserve crawl attention, which get consolidated, and which stay out of the index entirely. This guide covers the decisions that matter at […] Read more »
Shopify Collection Merchandising The 8 Best Shopify Collection Sorting Apps in 2026, Compared August 31, 2026 by Wade The best Shopify collection sorting apps in 2026 are Dynasort, KX by Kimonix, Bestsellers reSort, ST Product & Collection Sort, Sort’d, Sortimize, Jedi Collection Sort Pro and SortWise, and choosing between them comes down to four questions: how fast collections re-sort, how many signals you can blend, whether you can verify the sort actually helped, […] Read more »
Shopify Collection Merchandising Shopify Best Sellers Collection: Build One That Updates Itself August 31, 2026 by Wade To create a Shopify best sellers collection, create an automated collection, set its sort order to “Best selling,” and link it prominently in your navigation. That takes five minutes. The harder part is keeping it honest: Shopify’s Best selling sort is a black box that lags real demand, buries new winners, and leaves sold-out products […] Read more »
Shopify Collection Merchandising Shopify Collection Page Best Practices: What the Data Says August 31, 2026 by Wade Shopify collection page best practices come down to five decisions: what order products appear in, how many products the page carries, which filters exist, what the description says and where it sits, and how consistent the grid looks. Collection pages are your store’s aisles; most buying sessions pass through them, and the first two rows […] Read more »
Shopify Collection Merchandising Shopify Product Recommendations: the Complete Guide (2026) August 31, 2026 by Wade Shopify product recommendations are the automated product suggestions shown on product pages, in the cart, at checkout and after purchase. Shopify generates them natively from product data and store-wide purchase patterns, and does a reasonable job out of the box. The gap is control: native recommendations cannot be ranked by your margins, your inventory position […] Read more »
Shopify Collection Merchandising The 8 Best Shopify Merchandising Apps in 2026 (an Honest Guide) August 31, 2026 by Wade The best Shopify merchandising apps in 2026 are Dynasort, KX by Kimonix, Boost AI Search & Filter, Bestsellers reSort, ST Product & Collection Sort, Sort’d, Entaice, and Searchspring, and the right one depends on which job you are hiring for. Collection sorting, site search, product recommendations and variant ordering are different problems, and most apps […] Read more »
Feature Releases Collections & Merchandising News Introducing Dynasort Recommendations August 31, 2026 / September 1, 2026 by Wade One week ago we took Dynasort Search out of soft launch. Today it is Recommendations’ turn. Dynasort Recommendations, our upsell and cross-sell engine, is out of soft launch and available to every store, on every plan, starting now. The short version: the same recipes that already rank your collections and your search results can now […] Read more »
Conversion Rate Optimization Home Page & Navigation Your Hero Section Must Answer 3 Questions in 3 Seconds August 31, 2026 / August 30, 2026 by Wade ← All 100 tips · Tip 10 of 100 · 91 days to Cyber Monday Your home page hero has about three seconds to answer three questions: what do you sell, why should I buy it from you, and what should I do next. A first-time visitor who cannot answer all three from your opening […] Read more »
Cart & Checkout Conversion Rate Optimization Free-shipping threshold + progress bar in the cart: the cheapest AOV lift in ecommerce. August 30, 2026 / August 22, 2026 by Wade ← All 100 tips · Tip 9 of 100 · 92 days to Cyber Monday A free-shipping threshold with a progress bar in the cart is the cheapest average-order-value lift in ecommerce. No redesign, no new traffic, no discount eating your margin. Just a line that says “You’re $12 away from free shipping” and a […] Read more »
Quick Notes How to Push Sold-Out Products Down in Shopify Collections August 29, 2026 / June 12, 2026 by Wade Shopify has no built-in sort order that pushes sold-out products to the bottom of a collection. Your realistic options are to hide sold-out items completely (with a smart collection rule or a theme filter) or to use an app that re-sorts the collection automatically, keeping out-of-stock products visible but demoted below everything shoppers can actually […] Read more »
