Find search opportunities, improve product pages and plan content in one workspace. RankEngine writes supported fixes through the Shopify API, verifies each one against the live value, and helps you track search performance and AI visibility.
Original screenshots, three-month view, captured 27 September 2026. Click any chart to open the full image.
These properties are operated by the RankEngine team, not customer testimonials. Numbers are as displayed in each report; the Bing captures do not show the property name in frame. None of these charts is a controlled comparison, and a three-month total is not a percentage uplift.
We ran the same audit on nine SEO apps’ marketing sites, ours included, on 23 September 2026: sitemaps, structured data, llms.txt, AI-crawler rules, hreflang, page weight. Eight publish in one language only; two ship a home page with no structured data. The raw numbers are published so you can check them.
Products, collections, pages, articles and images are checked against 14 on-page rules, and the storefront is crawled to confirm what Google actually sees. Three examples of what it finds:
RankEngine212 products share the same title pattern; 57 have no meta descriptionrobots.txt blocks GPTBot and PerplexityBot; two collections carry noindexSearch Console not connected, so clicks and impressions are not in the reportIllustrative findings; the counts on your store will differ.
Every applied change records the previous value, the new value and a verification read from Shopify. A change that does not read back as written is reported as a failure, never as done.
Research what to target, improve the pages you have, publish what is missing and measure what happened. Each tool below is included in both plans unless marked Pro.
Each keyword shows monthly volume, a 0–100 difficulty score, cost per click and the intent behind the query, so a product page goes after buying terms and a guide goes after questions.
"whey protein" · 135,000 searches a month · difficulty 30 · $1.17 CPC · transactionalHigh demand, page-one is reachable for a store with some authority, and searchers are ready to buy: a collection page, not a blog post.Volumes and difficulty are third-party estimates, not measured outcomes.
Ideas come from your keyword research and your catalogue. Drafts are written in your brand voice, checked for plagiarism and machine-sounding prose, and scheduled on a calendar you control. Nothing publishes without a slot you approved.
Readiness is what you control: files, schema, crawler access. Visibility is what the assistants actually say. This capture is a store that is 83% ready and not yet mentioned anywhere, and the app says so.
Each engine is asked shopper prompts for the store's category · engines: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity · checked 27 Sep 2026Doesn't know you · 0 of 4 · stores named instead: fnac.com, apple.com, amazon.fr …Why start now: assistants answer from today's search results and from what they have already seen cited. A store that is readable and mentioned this year tends to keep being recommended; catching up later means displacing whoever got there first.
Google states its AI features need no special files or schema; llms.txt and crawler rules are readiness hygiene and do not, on their own, get a store cited. See our audit of nine SEO apps' own websites →
Seventeen checks cover discoverability files, crawler access, protocol discovery and content accessibility. Each one says whether the app can fix it or whether it needs you, and why. The score is the share of scored checks that pass; it is not a probability of being cited.
llms.txt, agent.json, robots rules for AI crawlers, JSON-LD on products and articlesDeploy the Cloudflare Worker for root-level discovery files needs youThe same loop runs whether you click a fix, turn on an Autopilot rule, or connect an AI agent through MCP.
Shopify data first, then a crawl of the live storefront.
Issues grouped by impact, with the expected score change per fix.
Supported changes are written through the Shopify API. Titles wait for approval.
The live value is read back. A mismatch is a failure, not a done state.
Search Console, rankings and AI mentions, graded after 30 days.
Operational changes and outcomes are reported apart from each other. The score you see in the app is the same score in the report, and each metric keeps its own definition: SEO health, readiness, clicks, impressions, citations. There is no blended growth number.
PDF and CSV export on Pro; CSV on Basic.
Shopify lets an app write some things and not others. This table says which is which, so there is no surprise after install.
| Area | RankEngine | Requires you |
|---|---|---|
| Meta descriptions, alt text, schema, redirects | Writes, verifies, logs, undo for 48 hours | Nothing after install |
| Page and product titles | Proposes the change | Approve each title |
| Theme code: heading order | Moves a heading in front of the H1 when you apply the fix; backs up, checks the look, reads back | Apply the fix, or leave it |
| Theme code: page layout | Names the file and the change | Edit the theme, or ask your developer |
| Search Console and Bing | Reads performance and indexing, submits sitemaps and IndexNow | Connect the account once |
| AI visibility | Probes four assistants and reports readiness and mentions separately | Nothing; a zero is reported as a zero |
| Content | Drafts, checks and schedules posts | Approve the calendar; review anything you want to change |
| Root-level discovery files | Generates llms.txt and agent.json | Deploy the Cloudflare Worker for the domain root |
Billed through Shopify. You are not charged during the trial, and you can cancel any time. Monthly, or yearly at 20% off.
For scale: SEO freelancers average $1,348 a month and agencies $3,209 (Ahrefs survey of 439 SEO providers). Prices in USD; stores already on Starter or Growth keep their plan. Full plan details on the pricing page.
Running several stores? Each store is its own subscription. Tell us how many and we will help you set them up.
Install from the Shopify App Store, approve the permissions and the first audit starts on its own. The first results appear within a few minutes; a full catalogue is scanned in the background.
Nothing on install. Fixes are applied when you click them, or by Autopilot rules you turn on. Page titles always wait for your approval. Theme code, brand decisions and external accounts stay with you and are listed in a separate queue.
Meta and page-content changes (not homepage meta) can be undone from Change history for 48 hours. Every applied change records the previous value, the new value and the verification result.
RankEngine asks ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity a set of shopper prompts for your category, records whether your store is named or cited, and shows the prompts, the engines and the check date. Readiness (files, schema, crawler access) is reported separately from observed visibility, and a zero is shown as a zero. How AI visibility tracking works.
Fixes land in minutes and are verified the same day. Search engines take weeks to re-crawl and re-rank, so track clicks and impressions in Search Console over a month or more. RankEngine does not promise a ranking, a traffic figure or a sales figure.
Yes. The audit reads the catalogue through the Shopify API in pages, so a store with thousands of products is scanned in the background and fixes are applied in batches, each verified. Daily scans on Basic, every 6 hours on Pro.
Only for one fix, and only when you apply it. Storefront features are a theme app embed you switch on yourself. The one fix that edits theme code moves a heading that sits in front of the page’s H1: RankEngine checks your theme’s CSS so the page looks the same, keeps a backup, reads the file back and restores it if anything differs, and refuses themes where the look could change.
Yes, from the Shopify admin at any time. Shopify stops the charge; there is no notice period and nothing to email. Cancel during the 3-day trial and you pay nothing.
No. Connect Search Console and RankEngine reads its data alongside the audit, so you see what changed and what search did in one place. Setting up Search Console for Shopify.
Three days is enough to see every issue on your store and watch the first fixes verify. Shopify runs the trial; you are not charged during it.
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