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Shopify Insights & Guides | Victoria Garland Creative Blog
June 6, 2026

The Best Email Marketing App for Shopify (From a Team That Runs Them)

Search “best email marketing app for Shopify” and you get a wall of listicles, most of them ranked by who pays the biggest affiliate commission. We run these tools for real Shopify clients, so here is the version with no referral money attached: which app is actually best depends on your stage, plus there are only really four worth considering.

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Shopify Insights & Guides | Victoria Garland Creative Blog
June 6, 2026

The Klaviyo Flows That Recover the Most Revenue

Most Shopify stores have Klaviyo installed and almost none of its revenue switched on. The campaigns get the attention, the weekly sends and the promos, but the real money is in the flows: the automations that run on their own, triggered by what a customer does. After setting these up for Shopify clients for years, here is the short list that recovers the most, plus how to set each one up so it actually fires.

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Shopify Insights & Guides | Victoria Garland Creative Blog
June 6, 2026

What Is a Fractional CTO, and When Does an Ecommerce Brand Need One?

“Fractional CTO” sounds like consultant-speak, so let me define it plainly, then tell you the actual signs that an ecommerce brand needs one. I spent over a decade at Shopify building the tools merchants run on, and I now do this work for ecommerce brands, so this is the version from inside the role rather than from a pitch deck.

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Shopify Insights & Guides | Victoria Garland Creative Blog
June 5, 2026

Ahrefs Stopped Crawling Your Shopify Store? Here's the Fix

Last week an Ahrefs Site Audit on a client’s Shopify store ran clean. This week the same crawl came back nearly empty, every page returning a block instead of HTML. Nothing in the theme had changed. Nothing in the robots.txt had changed. The crawler had simply stopped getting through.

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