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Product Data

Making a catalog readable to AI agents: categories, attributes, titles, barcodes, and the store-level gates that decide whether an agent can see you at all.

Is your Shopify store hidden from AI agents? Five gates to check before you touch product data

Is your Shopify store hidden from AI agents? Five gates to check before you touch product data

September 15, 2026 by Wade Sonenberg

A password page or a robots.txt rule from another app can hide your catalog from AI agents. Five store-level gates to check before you fix product data.

Category attributes on Shopify: the explicit data AI agents filter on, and how to set them at scale

Category attributes on Shopify: the explicit data AI agents filter on, and how to set them at scale

September 12, 2026 by Wade Sonenberg

Category attributes are the explicit values AI agents filter on. Why Shopify's guesses vary, the taxonomy rule, and the API recipe to set them at scale.

How Shopify Catalog ranks your products for ChatGPT, Copilot and Gemini (and what 'inferred' means)

How Shopify Catalog ranks your products for ChatGPT, Copilot and Gemini (and what ‘inferred’ means)

September 5, 2026 by Wade Sonenberg

Shopify names five Catalog ranking factors and labels the product data it guesses as inferred. What it means for your products, plus a six-item checklist.