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How to find a better blog for an e-commerce store

Native e-commerce blogging tools lack essential features like custom meta tags, structured data, proper URL routing, and comment replies, forcing store owners to look elsewhere. Sifting through an overwhelming marketplace of third-party apps is risky and time-consuming when launching content.

What people tried

Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.

  1. 1
    Using AI tools like Claude to generate custom HTML code and pasting it directly into the blog article code tab
  2. 2
    Building custom internal apps or headless CMS setups to handle content and SEO
  3. 3
    Using page builders or alternative blogging apps like DropInBlog and Bloggle
  4. 4
    Switching entirely to WordPress for content operations

In their words

Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.

“Ok, 7 months since we launched, and we finally got around to working on the blog, and it immediately became obvious the native blog is VERY limited. However, there's like 100 apps on the marketplace, and most of them are AI auto blog tools.”source ↗

“We're looking to start publishing in July, so don't really have the time to test 5-10 apps and find a winner, and honestly don't want to risk installing and removing that many apps.”source ↗

AmIDrJekyll · r/shopify · 121 upvotes

“The overall SEO is a big one, I don't see a way to add custom meta tags, schema, and structured data per post. The URLs are weird (I can't believe I'd have to use "/blogs/blog" for index), and the authors and categories (tags) are very limited. No way to embed product to posts.”source ↗

AmIDrJekyll · r/shopify · 3 upvotes

“The native blog function doesn’t even have the option to reply to comments… I’d hardly call it fine.”source ↗

ThisIsntRealWakeUp · r/shopify · 3 upvotes

Where this came up

r/shopifybloggingecommerceseoshopify

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