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Logfile analysis for shops: what crawlers actually fetch

Which address a crawler requested, with which status code and how many bytes: that lives only in the access log. How a shop evaluates it and what the network-wide figures say.

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Redirect Planning: Carrying Rankings Through a Relaunch

Without a redirect plan, one documented relaunch cost 42 percent of organic traffic within twelve days. This guide walks through the redirect matrix, status codes, testing and follow-up step by step.

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AI Overviews in Shopping: Optimize Product Pages

AI Overviews appear on 20.5 percent of all search result pages but on only 3.2 percent of shopping searches - the leverage sits with the guide searches that come before the purchase. This guide shows how to prepare product pages with clean data, valid structured data and citable guide content for Google's AI answers and make the visibility measurable.

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Product Variant SEO: Avoid Duplicate Content in Your Shop

A product in six colours and five sizes quickly becomes 30 nearly identical URLs for search engines that dilute the product page's ranking value. How to consolidate product variants with a canonical master URL, correct canonical tags and clean internal linking - and why this is a different problem from filter and facet URLs.

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AI Crawler Control: A Valid TDM Opt-Out in 2026

Text and data mining is permitted unless a machine-readable reservation exists. How shops declare the TDM opt-out in three places – without accidentally blocking retrieval crawlers too.

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Faceted Navigation: Control Filter URLs for SEO

Filter and sort URLs turn a few thousand products into millions of pages - Google names faceted navigation as the single largest cause of crawling problems. A decision matrix instead of guesswork: which facets deserve a landing page, which belong out of the crawl, and why robots.txt and noindex are not interchangeable.

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AI Alt Text: Accessible, SEO-Ready Product Images

A product image without alt text is invisible to screen reader users and mute to search engines.

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Measuring LLM Visibility: Share of Model for Shops

Share of Model, citation rate and AI referral conversion as reliable KPIs: how shops make their visibility in language models measurable and controllable.

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CMS Migration: From Legacy to a Modern System 2026

A system switch puts hard-earned visibility at stake: 66.5% of links to the sampled websites have been dead since 2013 (Ahrefs). How to switch CMS with a content audit, redirect strategy, and phased rollout without losing your SEO substance.