Organic traffic
Organic traffic is the visitors who reach your website through unpaid search results, rather than through ads or other paid placements.
Last updated: June 9, 2026
Organic traffic is the main reason most stores invest in SEO. Paid traffic stops the moment you stop spending, but organic visits keep arriving for as long as your pages rank, which is what makes the work compound over time.
For a Shopify store, organic traffic might be someone searching best reusable water bottle and clicking your unpaid result. Shoppers who find you this way tend to be high-intent, because they went looking for exactly what you sell.
Growing it comes down to a few things working together: content that matches what people search for, a site that crawls cleanly, and metadata that makes your results worth clicking. AI answer engines are now a related channel, where being cited in a generated answer can send visitors the same way a ranking page does.
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Alt text
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Backlink
A backlink is a link from another website that points to a page on yours. Search engines read backlinks from trusted sites as a signal that your content is credible, which can lift your rankings.
Canonical URL
A canonical URL is the version of a page you tell search engines to treat as the main one when the same or similar content can be reached through several different URLs. It points them to the copy you want indexed and ranked.
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