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Link in bio for Shopify - a practical guide

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For a Shopify store, the link in your Instagram or TikTok bio does a lot of work: it's where followers go when a post makes them want to buy. This guide covers what a good link in bio for Shopify looks like, how to set one up, what to measure, and the mistakes that quietly cost sales.

A plain link list is a stack of buttons: "Shop", "New in", "Sale", "Newsletter". It works, but every button is a guess about what your follower wants, and none of them shows a product.

A page that reads your Shopify store can do more:

Setup checklist

  1. Pick what goes first. Put best-sellers and the current drop at the top. That's what your latest posts send people looking for.
  2. Add your collections. They let people browse without leaving the page for your home page.
  3. Match your brand. Use your logo and brand colours so the page feels like your store, not a third-party tool.
  4. Link your socials. Add your Instagram and TikTok handles so people who land from one can find the other.
  5. Check sold-out behaviour. Mark a test product as out of stock and see what the page does. It should never lead followers to something they can't buy.
  6. Tag every link. Add UTM parameters to each link so your analytics can tell your bio traffic apart from everything else (see below).
  7. Test on a phone, inside the apps. Open your bio link from Instagram and from TikTok, not only in a desktop browser. That's where your followers see it.
  8. Put the link everywhere. Bio, story highlights, captions for new drops, QR codes on packaging.

What to measure

UTM parameters are tags added to a URL that tell your analytics where a visit came from. Google's documentation describes the main ones: utm_source for the referrer, utm_medium for the marketing medium, utm_campaign for the product, slogan or promo, and utm_content to tell apart two links in the same place.

For a bio page, a simple scheme is enough: utm_source=instagram or tiktok, utm_medium=bio, and utm_content set to the product or link name. Keep the names consistent, or your reports split one source into three.

In Shopify, the Sales attributed to marketing report includes sales from externally managed efforts that use UTM parameters, so tagged bio links show up next to your other channels.

Clicks tell you what your followers want before they buy. If a product gets clicks but no orders, look at its product page, price or stock. If a link gets no clicks, move it down or remove it.

This is the number that matters. Compare orders from the bio link week by week, and around each post or drop, to see which content actually sells.

Mistakes to avoid

If you used Shopify's Linkpop, see what to use instead of Linkpop.

How Bioshelf handles it

Bioshelf is a link-in-bio page for Shopify stores, launching soon on the Shopify App Store. Here is how it handles the checklist.

Measured. Meta and TikTok pixels (behind a consent banner), click counts per product and per link, and orders attributed to your bio link.

One plan: $14/month, everything included, with a 7-day free trial. There's no free plan. Questions go to hello@bioshelf.co, and a person replies within a few hours, EU daytime, Monday to Friday.

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