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How to Get Your API Key from Shopify for 404medic.com

Are you looking to enhance your Shopify store's SEO and user experience? The 404Medic app (https://404medic.com) is designed to help you find and fix broken links, optimize redirects, and manage "nofollow" tags efficiently. To integrate 404Medic with your Shopify store, you’ll need to generate an API key. Follow this guide to get started.

Why Use 404Medic?

While Shopify offers many apps, 404Medic provides specialized tools to improve your store's SEO and user experience by:

• Identifying and fixing broken links across your Shopify pages and blog posts ¹.
• Optimizing redirects to prevent 404 errors and maintain SEO value ².
• Managing "nofollow" tags for external links to improve SEO performance ³.

Steps to Generate Your API Key

Step 1: Access App Development Settings

1. Log in to your Shopify admin dashboard.
2. Navigate to Settings (located at the bottom left).
3. Click on Apps and sales channels.
4. Select Develop apps.

Step 2: Create a New App

1. On the "App development" page, click Create an app.
2. Enter the App name (e.g., 404medic.com or a variant).
3. Confirm the App developer field is pre-populated with your email.
4. Click Create app.

Step 3: Configure API Access Scopes

To ensure 404Medic functions correctly, configure the following API access scopes:

1. Go to the Configuration tab.
2. Select the required scopes:
3. Click Save.

Required scopes:

• write_pages (to create or update Shopify pages)
• write_articles (to create or update blog posts)
• write_redirects (to create, update, and potentially delete redirects)
• read_products (implicitly needed if the blog or pages reference product data)
• read_blogs (to fetch blogs and their metadata to get articles)
• read_articles (To fetch articles)
• read_redirects (To fetch existing redirects for management)
• write_redirects (Required to manage existing redirect shopify_id)

Required API version: 2024-10

Step 4: Retrieve Your API Credentials

1. Navigate to the API credentials tab.
2. Copy your API key and API secret key to a secure location.

Ready to Use 404Medic?

With your API key, you can now integrate 404Medic into your Shopify store to:

• Scan and fix broken links ⁶.
• Optimize redirects to prevent 404 errors ².
• Manage "nofollow" tags for better SEO ³.