Shopify catalog and AI visibility

138 messy listings became 48 real products, with no broken link

We restructured a live jewelry catalog while the shop kept selling, redirected every old address, and measured whether AI assistants recommend the brand before and after.

BEFOREAFTERRing, gold/ring-goldRing, silver/ring-silverRing, rose/ring-roseRingColor1 page, 1 URL138 listings48 products126old URLsredirected
138 to 48listings restructured into real products
126old URLs kept alive with redirects
192obsolete listings archived

The situation

Every color of a piece was its own listing, so shoppers saw near-duplicates, search engines saw thin pages, and the shop looked far bigger and messier than it was.

What we built

  • Color became a variant option: one product page per piece instead of one per color
  • 126 old product addresses redirected, so nothing linked or indexed broke
  • 192 obsolete listings archived, search titles and image descriptions written across the catalog
  • A full backup first, a draft-first rollout, one canary product watched, and a rollback kept ready throughout

The result

  • The whole change ran on a live storefront with money going through it, planned so it could be undone
  • In a July 2026 before-and-after test, the brand was returned as a top recommendation in ChatGPT and Gemini for its category. Model answers vary from run to run, so this is one dated measurement, not a promise.