Catalog Issues & Detection Rules
Full list of verified catalog issue types detected by StoreClean across content, SEO, images, variants, and organization.
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Updated September 2026
Content Issues
- Missing descriptions: Products with empty HTML body descriptions.
- Short descriptions: Descriptions below minimum length thresholds (under 20 characters).
- Duplicate descriptions: Identical copy shared across multiple distinct products.
- Duplicate titles: Two or more products sharing the exact same title.
- Short titles: Product titles with fewer than 3 characters.
- Excessive whitespace: Unnecessary trailing, leading, or multiple consecutive spaces in titles and body text.
SEO Issues
- Missing SEO titles: Empty page title tags in Shopify search settings.
- Missing meta descriptions: Blank search snippet meta descriptions.
- SEO titles too long: Titles exceeding 70 characters (which get truncated in Google search results).
- SEO titles too short: Titles under 10 characters.
- Meta descriptions too long: Snippets exceeding 160 characters.
- Meta descriptions too short: Snippets under 50 characters.
- Duplicate SEO titles: Identical search titles causing internal keyword cannibalization.
- Missing image ALT text: Images without descriptive alt attributes.
Image Issues
- Missing product image: Products published without any media assets.
- Missing image ALT: Published product images lacking accessibility alt text.
Variant & Data Issues
- Missing SKU: Variants without a stock-keeping unit code.
- Duplicate SKU: Identical SKU assigned to two different variants.
- Duplicate barcode: Same UPC/EAN/barcode assigned across multiple products.
- Duplicate handle: Conflicting URL slug handles.
Organization Issues
- Missing product type: Products with an unassigned Shopify taxonomy type.
- Missing vendor: Products lacking brand/vendor attribution.
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