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22-07-2025 09:35

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where the theme modifications banner would not disappear when the theme modifications have just been applied.

15-07-2025 10:48

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where the theme modifications would run into the rate limits of some Shopify APIs.

10-07-2025 09:12

Enhancements

  • Adds first time configuration wizard to help merchants walk through the essential app settings.
  • Improves welcome dialog to guide merchants showcasing app pinning option and premium support.

06-06-2025 08:11

Enhancements

  • Adds a feedback string for the image alt attributes and image keyphrase assessments for when no content and/or image has been added.
  • Makes the keyphrase in image alt attributes assessment available when no content has been added.
  • Renames image keyphrase assessment to keyphrase in image alt attributes assessment.
  • Renames the image alt tags assessment to image alt attributes assessment.

04-06-2025 09:26

Enhancements

  • Adds a feedback string for the image alt attributes and image keyphrase assessments for when no content and/or image has been added.
  • Renames the image alt tags assessment to image alt attributes assessment.

Bugfixes

  • Improves the guidance on using the Shopify SEO title variable in our Full SEO title.

Other

  • Removes the "new" badge from the schema section for products.

26-05-2025 06:49

Enhancements

  • Adds more phrases regarding disability to the inclusive language assessment.
  • Improves the feedback for "lame" in the inclusive language assessment.
  • Makes the following SEO assessments available in the analysis by default, even when no content has been added: keyphrase in introduction, keyphrase in meta description, keyphrase in SEO title, keyphrase in slug.

22-05-2025 10:47

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where the template suffix of pages would be reset to the default when saving optimizations.

14-05-2025 11:40

Enhancements

  • Improves the feedback texts for the passive voice and consecutive sentences assessments in case there is nothing to report.
  • Makes the images, internal links, and external links assessments available when no content has been added.

Other

  • Improves the translatability of feedback strings for the keyphrase length assessment.

08-05-2025 08:40

Bugfixes

  • Fixes issue with theme modifications apply in some stores due to Shopify API limits.

01-05-2025 08:48

Enhancements

  • Adds a learn more link in the schema section of the product editor.
  • Changes the applicability criteria of readability assessments so that they are shown even if there is little or no text.
  • Improves recognition of function words for Farsi. Props to nshayanfar.
  • Improves the recognition of transition words for Farsi.
  • Introduces more robust HTML processing and highlighting for the consecutive sentences assessment.

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where function words with spaces were not recognised in Farsi.

15-04-2025 07:30

Enhancements

  • Adds pregnant women to the potentially non-inclusive phrases targeted by the inclusive language analysis.
  • Improved our Product structured data by specifying the Offer.priceSpecification more specifically with the type UnitPriceSpecification.
  • Improves the inclusive language analysis feedback for the potentially non-inclusive word exotic, and prevents the feedback from appearing when exotic is followed by words common in scientific contexts.

09-04-2025 12:20

Enhancements

  • Adds productGroupID attribute in ProductGroup structured data.

07-04-2025 08:33

Enhancements

  • Adds support for "search" feature in blog posts list.
  • Moves all blog posts to one lists instead of grouped by blog.

02-04-2025 07:51

Enhancements

  • Improves keyphrase recognition for keyphrases that contain verbs in Spanish.
  • Improves the accuracy of assessments measuring character count for Japanese texts by removing common punctuation from the count.
  • Updates “Edit with Shopify” link in editor to follow the move of the Blogs section from the Online Store app to the Content section of the admin.

Bugfixes

  • Fixes an issue where the AI intro modal would keep displaying when going back to the optimization overview.

Other

  • Improves the feedback strings of the subheading distribution assessment for better translatability.

27-03-2025 10:21

Enhancements

  • Adds new Schema preview block in products editor.
  • Add support for Google's rich result type Merchant Listing for product variants. Product variants and the related properties are based on Shopify's product categories and rely on the related product attributes.

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13-03-2025 10:45

Enhancements

  • Add "Keyword Difficulty" and "Intent" to "Get related keyphrases" feature.

06-03-2025 10:20

Enhancements

  • Changes content filters name from No focus keyphrase and Not enough content to Not analyzed
  • Improves keyphrase recognition for German plural noun forms with an umlaut.
  • Introduces more robust HTML processing and highlighting for the sentence length and paragraph length assessments.

Bugfixes

  • Fixes a bug where the overall score for the Related keyphrase analysis would still be orange when all the individual assessment results were green.
  • Fixes a bug where the overall SEO score for collections would still be orange when all the individual assessment results were green.

20-02-2025 08:42

Enhancements

  • Introduces new, automated Site Connections settings feature.

19-02-2025 11:55

Bugfixes

  • Fixes issue with default value support inside canonical_url column during imports.