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Practical, dated and sourced. What actually moves the needle for small WooCommerce stores in AI search — and what doesn’t.
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GEO: generative engine optimization
What the term means, how it differs from AEO and ordinary SEO, and which popular GEO tactics Google says you do not need.
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AEO: answer engine optimization
Being the extracted answer rather than the generated one — the surfaces it targets, and how much it actually matters for a shop.
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· 2 min read
WooCommerce 11.1 adds EU withdrawal rights
WooCommerce 11.1 introduces a new right of withdrawal feature for EU customers, requiring shop owners to review return policies before updating.
- Checkout
- Google AI Mode
- Merchant Center
- WooCommerce
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· 11 min read
ChatGPT Shopping for WooCommerce stores in the EU: how to get listed (2026 guide)
What ChatGPT Shopping and Instant Checkout mean for an EU WooCommerce store, what already works today, and how to be ready when checkout opens.
- ChatGPT Shopping
- WooCommerce
- Agentic commerce
- EU
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· 9 min read
WooCommerce products not showing in Google Shopping: 9 causes and fixes (2026)
Products disapproved or missing in Merchant Center? The nine causes we find most in WooCommerce stores, from missing GTINs to blocked crawlers.
- Google Shopping
- Merchant Center
- WooCommerce
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· 7 min read
AI crawlers and WooCommerce: let GPTBot, PerplexityBot and Claude read your store (robots.txt + Cloudflare, 2026)
Which AI bots matter, and the exact robots.txt, Cloudflare and hosting settings that stop your WooCommerce store from being invisible to AI assistants.
- AI crawlers
- robots.txt
- Cloudflare
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· 8 min read
Why ChatGPT doesn’t recommend your WooCommerce store — 7 fixable reasons (2026)
If ChatGPT, Google AI Mode or Perplexity never mention your WooCommerce store, one of these seven technical and content gaps is usually why. All fixable.
- AI visibility
- WooCommerce
- ChatGPT
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· 9 min read
WooCommerce product schema for AI search: what ChatGPT, Google AI Mode and Perplexity actually read
The Product, Offer, Review and Organization structured data your WooCommerce store needs in 2026 — and the plugin mistakes that silently break it.
- Structured data
- WooCommerce
- Schema
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