A better blog for your Shopify store, with SEO handled per post.

Shopify has a blog built in (Content → Blog posts), and Shopify Magic can draft posts there. If it does what you need, keep it. Stores come to CMSKite for other reasons:

• Writers stay out of your Shopify admin. Invite them to CMSKite as editors; they never see orders, customers or payments.
• Drafts in English, हिंदी or Hinglish. Write with AI writes a full post from one sentence, with headings and a search description.
• Views per post. The embed counts who reads what, so you can see which posts bring people in.
• The blog is not tied to the store. The same two lines work if you later add a site on WordPress, Webflow or plain HTML.

1. 01

   Copy your two lines

   Sign up free. In the dashboard open Connect your website, choose Shopify, and press Copy code.

2. 02

   Make a Blog page

   In Shopify go to Online Store → Pages, add a page called Blog and save it. Its address is /pages/blog.

3. 03

   Give it a template of its own

   Go to Online Store and press Edit theme on your current theme. Open the Home page drop-down at the top, choose Pages, then Create template. Name it cmskite, base it on your default page template, and press Create template. A template’s sections show on every page that uses it, so this keeps the blog on one page.

4. 04

   Add a Custom Liquid section

   In the new template press Add section, search for Custom Liquid, paste the two lines into it, and press Save.

   html

   <div id="cmskite-blog"></div>
   <script src="https://cmskite.com/embed.js" data-blog="your-blog" async></script>

5. 05

   Point the Blog page at the template

   Back in Online Store → Pages, open Blog, set Theme template to cmskite, and press Save. Open the page: your posts are listed, and a click opens the post at /pages/blog?post=…. Then add the page to your menu.

1. 01

   The blog shows on every page of the store

   The section went into the default page template, which all your pages share. Remove it there and give the Blog page its own template (step 3).

2. 02

   There is no Custom Liquid in the Add section list

   Not every theme offers one; Shopify’s own Dawn and Horizon themes do. Look in your theme’s documentation for a custom Liquid or HTML section.

3. 03

   The section shows in the theme editor but not on the page

   The Blog page still uses the default template. Set its Theme template to cmskite (step 5).

When someone opens a post, the embed gives the page that post’s title, description, canonical link and article data, so search engines file it as its own page of your store. Two Shopify-specific things make that work properly.

1. Let the post’s canonical link be the only one. Your theme prints a canonical link naming the Blog page itself, and Google asks that a canonical link added by script be the only one. On your theme press ⋯ → Edit code and find the line with rel="canonical": in Dawn it is in layout/theme.liquid, in Horizon in snippets/meta-tags.liquid. Wrap it like this, so it is left out only on pages using the cmskite template:

{%- unless template.suffix == 'cmskite' -%}
  <link rel="canonical" href="{{ canonical_url }}">
{%- endunless -%}

If your theme’s line looks different, keep it as it is between the two tags. After a theme update or a new theme, check the change is still there.

2. Give Google your posts’ sitemap. Shopify’s own sitemap does not know your CMSKite posts. We keep a sitemap of them, with every post at its address on your store. On your theme press ⋯ → Edit code, Add a new template, choose robots, and press Create template. Keep Shopify’s default rules and add the Sitemap line at the end:

{% for group in robots.default_groups %}
  {{- group.user_agent -}}

  {% for rule in group.rules %}
    {{- rule -}}
  {% endfor %}

  {%- if group.sitemap != blank -%}
    {{ group.sitemap }}
  {%- endif -%}
{% endfor %}

Sitemap: https://cmskite.com/b/your-blog/site-sitemap.xml

Shopify calls robots.txt edits an unsupported customisation and warns that a wrong rule can lose you traffic, so change nothing else in that file. Keep the default ?post= addresses; Google indexes them.

Your Shopify blog posts keep their addresses and rankings. Avoid writing the same topic in both places, so two posts do not compete for one search.

Nothing to buy from the Shopify App Store: Custom Liquid and robots.txt.liquid are part of your theme.

• Templates — Shopify Help Center
• Sections and blocks — Shopify Help Center
• Editing robots.txt.liquid — Shopify Help Center
• Customize robots.txt — Shopify.dev
• robots.txt.liquid — Shopify.dev
• Liquid objects: template — Shopify.dev
• Layouts (global objects) — Shopify.dev
• Dawn: layout/theme.liquid — Shopify on GitHub
• Horizon: snippets/meta-tags.liquid — Shopify on GitHub
• Working with blog posts — Shopify Help Center
• JavaScript SEO basics (canonical links) — Google Search Central

Checked on 3 October 2026.