Shopify SEO Expert: Digital Darts

Fill in the title attribute on internal links for up to 50 pages, using each target page's own title (the same job as the app's Link titles tab). Preview with preview_link_titles first and get the merchant's go-ahead. Runs in the background, so follow it with get_job_status.

Create a Shopify URL redirect. Preferred: pass brokenLinkId (from list_broken_links, internal links only) plus target, which also marks the broken link fixed. Or pass path + target directly. Targets must be an existing page on the store (or '/'); redirects into another 404 are refused.

Point a chained redirect straight at its final destination, turning A → B → C into A → C. Takes a chainId from list_redirect_chains. A loop is refused (there's nothing sane to point at), as is a final destination that would itself 404.

The store's backlink profile snapshot (total backlinks, referring domains, rank) plus the top referring domains. Data comes from the app's monthly refresh; if no snapshot exists yet the merchant should open the Backlinks tab in SEO Expert once.

Fetch ONE image (by image id from get_resource) so you can actually see it. Call this before writing alt text, because alt text guessed from the product title describes the product rather than the picture. Returns the image itself, downscaled.

Which of the store's pages are appearing in Google and which aren't, from Search Console: counts, the pages themselves, and the trend. 'Not appearing' means Google reported no impressions for that page over the window. That is a strong signal but not proof the page is unindexed, so use inspect_url for the definitive per-page check. Cached for a day; pass refresh to recompute.

Progress of the store's background work: SEO audits, link scans, and bulk jobs (meta, alt text, link fixes, link titles). Pass a jobId from run_audit / run_link_scan / apply_link_titles, or a kind to get its latest run. Call this instead of guessing whether queued work has finished. An audit appears here once a worker picks it up, which is normally within seconds.

Look up a storefront URL (product/collection/page/blog/article) and return the matched resource's SEO fields plus its open audit issues and store-level issues. Use the returned resource id with update_meta_tags.

Full SEO detail for one resource by id (from list_resources / get_page_seo): SEO title/description, meta score, and every image with its alt text (image ids feed update_image_alt).

Google Search Console data for the connected property: 'overview' (daily clicks/impressions/CTR/position totals vs the previous period), 'queries' (top search queries), or 'pages' (top pages). Data lags ~3 days by Google's design. Requires the merchant to have connected Google in the app.

Overall SEO health of the store: health score (0-100), open audit issue counts by severity (critical/warning/info), and last audit time. Start here to understand where the store stands.

Definitive index check for ONE page, straight from Google's URL Inspection API: indexed or not, coverage state, verdict, last crawl, and whether Google chose a different canonical. Slower than get_indexing_status because it makes a live call per URL, so use it to confirm a specific page rather than to sweep the store. Needs owner-level access to the Search Console property; anything less comes back unavailable with an explanation.

Open broken links found by the content-graph link scanner. Internal ones can be fixed with create_redirect (pass the brokenLinkId). External ones must be edited in the source content. Paginated.

Redirects that point at another redirect (A → B → C), which wastes crawl budget and slows visitors down. Each row carries the path, the hops, the final destination, whether it loops, and where the store's own content links into it. Fix one with flatten_redirect_chain. Paginated.

List the store's synced content (products, collections, pages, blogs, articles) with SEO fields and meta score (0-100). Filters combine, so several can be set at once. Draft and archived items are left out unless includeUnpublished is true, because they don't render on the storefront and SEO work on them is wasted. Sorted worst score first. Paginated.

List open SEO audit issues, optionally filtered by severity (critical|warning|info) or ruleId. Each issue includes a fixUrl deep link into the SEO Expert app where the merchant can fix it. Paginated (page, limit ≤ 50).

Where a broken link actually appears in the store's content, before anything is edited: the pages, the occurrence counts, and any navigation menus containing it (menus belong to Shopify's menu editor and can't be rewritten here). Read-only. Run this before replace_link and show the merchant what would change.

Internal links in the store's content that have no title attribute, with the title the app would fill in for each (taken from the target page's own title). Read-only. Pass resourceIds to inspect specific pages, or omit them to walk the pages the audit has flagged. Feed the resourceIds into apply_link_titles.

Edit a broken link's href in the store's content so it points somewhere that works. This is the fix for an EXTERNAL broken link (a redirect can't help there) and the better fix for an internal one when the right page exists. Preview with preview_link_replacement first and get the merchant's go-ahead. Navigation menus can't be rewritten by the app.

Queue a fresh SEO audit of the whole store (same limit as the in-app button: one per day). The audit runs in the background, so call get_seo_summary a few minutes later for the updated score.

Scan the store's content for broken links (same limit as the in-app button: one per day). list_broken_links reports what the LAST scan found, so run this first when the merchant has just changed content or asks whether something is still broken. Runs in the background, so follow it with get_job_status.

Remove Shopify's 'hidden from search engines' flag (the seo.hidden metafield) from one page, so it can be indexed and appears in the sitemap again. list_resources reports seoHidden, and a page that should rank but is hidden is one of the highest-value fixes there is. Only do this when the merchant confirms the page SHOULD be public.

Set the alt text for ONE image (by image id from get_resource). Writes to Shopify immediately. Good alt text describes the image for screen readers in ≤ 125 characters, with no 'image of' and no keyword stuffing. Empty string clears.

Set alt text for up to 50 images in one call (image ids from get_resource). Writes to Shopify immediately; items succeed or fail independently and failures are reported per id. View every image with get_image BEFORE writing its alt, because alt text guessed from a product title describes the product rather than the picture. Same rules as update_image_alt: describe the image in ≤ 125 characters, no "image of", no keyword stuffing, empty string clears.

Set the SEO title and/or meta description for ONE resource (by resourceId from list_resources / get_page_seo). Writes to Shopify immediately. Guidance: titles ≤ 60 characters, descriptions 120-160 characters, front-load the keyword, no keyword stuffing. Pass an empty string to clear a field. Fields the merchant hand-edited in the app are respected as locked against templates, and this call marks edited fields as manual.

Set SEO titles and/or meta descriptions for up to 50 resources in one call (resource ids from list_resources). Writes to Shopify immediately; items succeed or fail independently and failures are reported per id. Same rules as update_meta_tags: titles ≤ 60 characters, descriptions 120-160 characters, front-load the keyword, no keyword stuffing, empty string clears. Write UNIQUE copy per page, because reusing one title across items defeats the point.