Why does AI readiness ask to read my pages and blog posts?

The Pages and blog posts section of the AI readiness page needs one permission SignalLane does not ask for at install: to read your online store content. It is optional. Press Allow content access and approve it in Shopify's window, or leave it and the rest of SignalLane works as before.

What it reads and what it keeps

With this permission, SignalLane reads your published pages and blog posts. It measures each one while reading and keeps:

• the title and web address of each page and blog post, and your blogs' titles;
• the name of the theme template a page uses, and when Shopify last updated it;
• the length of the text, how many images are in it and how many have no alt text, and the length of its SEO title and meta description (numbers, never the text);
• yes/no results, such as whether there is a meta description, a featured image, or a setting that hides it from search engines;
• for the Alt text page: the address and alt text of each published blog post's cover, and of each image inside a published page or post.

It never keeps the text of a page or post, and never reads comments or anything about the people who wrote them. This permission only reads: with it alone, SignalLane never creates, edits or deletes a page or a post. When you ask for SEO suggestions for a page or post, the suggestion you get is kept too. If you remove the permission, SignalLane deletes what it kept from it, unless you have also allowed content editing.

Content editing is a separate permission

Saving alt text for blog post covers and images in pages and posts, and SEO titles and meta descriptions for pages and posts, needs a second optional permission, Allow content editing, asked for only when you first save one. With it, SignalLane changes only those values, keeps the previous text of each change for 90 days so you can undo it, and keeps a copy of a page or post's previous text for 30 days when it changes an image inside it. If you remove content editing, those page copies are deleted at once; the before-and-after records are kept for the rest of their 90 days, and everything is deleted if you uninstall SignalLane.

With the same permission, the card SignalLane adds to a missing page can offer your published pages and blog posts that share its words, never one you hid from search engines. What a shopper sees on a missing page.

What it checks

• Text: no text in the content field, under 150 characters of text, no meta description.
• Images: no featured image and a featured image without alt text (blog posts only), and images in the text without alt text.

Only published pages and blog posts are checked, and only the text in each one's content field. When none of the six problems is found, the section says "No problems found".

When it reads

The first read starts when you allow access. After that, SignalLane reads again from time to time when you open the AI readiness page, or when you press Check again. A large store can take a while, and the section shows how far the read has got.