Customers may encounter 404 errors and SEO rankings may decline.

Traffic drops can happen due to URL changes, indexing delays, missing redirects, or SEO inconsistencies.

They should: Set redirects Preserve metadata Submit sitemaps Maintain content quality

A sitemap is a file listing store pages for search engine indexing.

Yes. Shopify automatically creates sitemap.xml files.

Submitting sitemaps helps Google crawl and index pages faster.

Google Search Console is a tool for monitoring indexing and SEO performance.