Best practices for populating data in Shopify
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Reactify Search is only going to be as good as the product data that it has to work with. The cleaner and more structured your product data, the more accurate and intuitive the shopping experience will be. So, we're showing you the best ways to optimise your data in Shopify.
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If this data is incorrect or inconsistent, it will negatively impact your configuration as things like boosting rules may not work. Boost rules must exactly match Shopify tags. Therefore, it is critical to address data inconsistencies before you begin configuring your merchandising settings.
Correctly populating your data in Shopify will ensure that the product will be placed in its optimum position on your listing pages. Things like your search results pages will show products in the proper ranking which helps get the most relevant products in front of customers.
Every product should have a proper Shopify Tag. Look out for typos and inconsistencies.
The Title and Description fields should be keyword-rich.
The Product Type fields should be consistent.
Identify products that belong to the same group by utilising 2 fields; Product Type or Shopify Tags. The configuration of your merchandise will be driven by how products are categorised, and displayed together. It starts by populating your product data in the right way.
