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The Shopify migration nobody warned you about

Everyone wants to talk platform. Almost nobody wants to talk what happens to search when you flip the switch.

Fraction Studio10 min read

If you are expecting a rant about Liquid, you will be disappointed. The uncomfortable part of a migration is not the theme layer. It is the URL graph you inherited from three agencies ago, the redirects nobody documented, and the product IDs your finance team quietly treats as sacred.

This piece will walk through what we actually protect first: indexation, canonicals, redirect testing, and the cutover checklist that keeps revenue from doing something dramatic while you are trying to celebrate.

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