Changelog

Latest v1.2.1 • Live on the Shopify App Store

Live on the Shopify App StoreSeokai was approved by Shopify and listed on the Shopify App Store on May 8, 2026. This page tracks every release shipped since.
  1. v1.2.1Patch

    Account security — expiring access tokens

    Seokai now connects to your store using Shopify's modern, automatically-refreshed access tokens. No action is required — your store keeps working uninterrupted.

    • Security

      Migrated to Shopify's token-exchange install flow and short-lived, auto-refreshing access tokens in place of long-lived ones, tightening the security of Seokai's connection to your store and aligning with Shopify's upcoming token requirements. Existing stores migrate automatically — no reinstall or re-approval needed.

  2. v1.2.0Minor release

    AI visibility & answer-engine optimization

    Seokai now helps your store get found and cited by AI assistants like ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini — not just ranked in Google. A new AI Visibility tracker, a store-wide AI Readiness score, agentic-commerce product checks and a brand-voice profile land in this release.

    • Added

      AI Visibility tracker — a new page where you track the questions shoppers ask AI assistants and see whether your store is mentioned or cited in the answer. It runs live web searches using your own OpenAI key, so results reflect what ChatGPT-style assistants say today, with engine support designed to expand to Perplexity and Gemini.

    • Added

      AI Visibility trends and product citations — see how your visibility changes run-over-run, and whether an AI answer cites your actual product page rather than just your brand or homepage, the signal that matters most for AI-driven shopping.

    • Added

      AI Readiness (AEO) score — a 0–100 store-wide score showing how discoverable your store is to AI answer engines, with a per-signal breakdown of what to improve. Shown on the Structured Data page, the home dashboard, your weekly email and individual reports.

    • Added

      AI discoverability checks in Site Audit — new findings flag when robots.txt blocks AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and others), when structured-data or FAQ coverage is low, and when your published llms.txt is missing or being shadowed.

    • Added

      Agentic-commerce product readiness — a "Check products" audit scores how complete your product data (price, availability, image, GTIN, product type and more) is for AI shopping agents, surfaces the most common gaps, and lists the products to fix first. A one-click "Suggest type" can fill a missing product category with AI; it never overwrites or invents factual data like price or GTIN.

    • Added

      llms.txt AI discoverability panel — now that Shopify auto-serves a native /llms.txt, the panel checks what is actually served on your storefront, sets honest expectations about which AI engines use it, and offers an on-brand theme-template override so you, not Shopify's default, control the content.

    • Added

      Brand voice — define your tone, target audience, banned words and guidance once in Settings, and Seokai applies it to every AI-generated title, description, tag and social post so your copy comes out on-brand. Factual outputs like keywords and image alt text are intentionally left untouched.

    • Changed

      The weekly email report now covers both SEO and AI visibility, adding an AI Visibility summary (how often your store was cited) and an AI Readiness breakdown alongside your SEO score.

    • Changed

      Positioning across the app broadened from "SEO" to "SEO + AI visibility (AEO/GEO)" to reflect the new answer-engine features. Genuine on-page SEO surfaces, such as the SEO score and meta editor, keep their SEO wording.

    • Improved

      More reliable AI generation — entity metadata now uses strict structured outputs, eliminating a class of failures where the model could return malformed or wrong-shaped responses.

    • Improved

      All new screens are translated across the 8 supported locales, and several previously English-only areas (the weekly reports page, validation messages and the bulk image optimizer) now show fully translated for non-English merchants.

    • Fixed

      The AI Visibility query input no longer cleared itself while you were typing, and Settings "saved" confirmations for brand voice and multi-language SEO now show as green success messages instead of red.

  3. v1.1.2Patch

    Site audit accuracy & natural-length AI copy

    Smarter duplicate-handle detection in the site audit, clearer disambiguation when products share titles, and AI generation that produces natural-length titles and descriptions.

    • Fixed

      Site audit no longer reports duplicate URL handles when one of the matching products is archived — only live products are counted toward those warnings now.

    • Changed

      When two live products share both a title and a URL handle, the audit list now shows each product's Shopify ID inline so you can tell them apart at a glance.

    • Changed

      The "Generate" wand now produces natural-length titles and descriptions instead of padding or truncating to a fixed SEO-snippet length, and the title and description fields accept Shopify's full platform limits so you can write longer copy.

    • Fixed

      Resolved cases where generating a title — especially right after generating a description — could silently fail or leave the field unchanged.

  4. v1.1.1Patch

    Webhook reliability and platform hardening

    Reliability fixes for Shopify webhook retries and credit-purchase processing, plus a round of security and privacy hardening across the platform.

    • Fixed

      Shopify webhook retries now reliably re-process after transient failures, so SEO updates triggered by product or collection changes are no longer occasionally dropped.

    • Fixed

      Credit purchases are now fully idempotent — Shopify re-delivering the same billing event can no longer result in duplicate credits being applied to a store.

    • Fixed

      The initial-import status banner is no longer incorrectly marked as failed when an unrelated background job errors out.

    • Security

      Security and privacy hardening across webhook handling, image processing and request validation. No action required from merchants.

  5. v1.1.0Minor release

    Audit & structured data UI, navigation refresh

    New Audit and Structured Data screens land in the app, the main navigation is reordered for clarity, and a batch of small UI fixes goes out.

    • Added

      Site Audit page — severity-graded list of sitemap and SEO health issues with a manual "Run now" trigger.

    • Added

      Structured Data page — copyable Liquid snippet for product and collection templates, a one-click installation verifier, and a "Refresh next 25 products" action that walks the catalog.

    • Changed

      Navigation reordered by usage frequency and condensed to shorter labels (SEO, Images, Audit, Plans). Updated translations applied across all 8 supported locales, including previously missing strings for non-English merchants.

    • Fixed

      Bulk loader item counts, empty list placeholder image, statistic chart tooltips and graph max-value calculations.

    • Fixed

      Automation page layout and bulk operation log pricing display.

  6. v1.0.2Patch

    Audit, JSON-LD and internal linking foundations

    Backend services for weekly site and SEO audits, JSON-LD generation, and AI-powered internal linking. UI for these lands in the next release.

    • Added

      Site audit engine — weekly automated check of your sitemap.xml and robots.txt for issues like blocked products or collections, missing sitemap directives, server errors and sudden URL drops.

    • Added

      SEO health audit — per-entity scan that flags thin or missing descriptions, empty titles, low-scoring pages, never-generated content, duplicate handles and stale low-score pages.

    • Added

      Internal linking suggestions (Scale and Enterprise plans) — weekly semantic analysis surfaces the most related products, collections, pages and articles, with AI-generated natural anchor text.

    • Added

      Structured data (JSON-LD) generation — schema for products (with Offer + AggregateRating), collections, breadcrumbs, blog posts, FAQ and organization, written to a Shopify metafield for richer Google results.

    • Improved

      Per-task AI generation tuning — keywords stay precise and consistent while descriptions and articles gain more variety, addressing the "every product reads the same" feedback.

  7. v1.0.1Patch

    Pre-launch polish

    Mobile responsiveness, in-app search, refreshed emails and conversion links to the marketing site.

    • Added

      Search inside entity list tables for products, collections, pages and articles.

    • Improved

      Mobile-responsive layouts across every page in the app.

    • Improved

      Faster homepage statistics rendering, clearer skeleton loaders and a bulk update flow that now shows item counts up front.

    • Improved

      Refreshed email template styling for weekly reports and transactional notifications.

    • Added

      Contextual "Learn more" links across the app pointing to the knowledge hub on the marketing site.

    • Changed

      Removed Shopify branding from the in-app UI for a cleaner look.

    • Changed

      Billing test/production environment configurations split, so review and live merchants stay isolated.

    • Fixed

      Resource item rendering on dashboard cards.

  8. v1.0.0Major release

    Initial release — submitted for App Store review

    The first public version of Seokai. AI-powered SEO for Shopify covering products, collections, pages and articles, with multi-language support and per-store automation.

    • Added

      AI generation of meta titles, descriptions and keywords for products, collections, pages and articles.

    • Added

      AI-generated alt text for product images, applied per item or in bulk with full revert support.

    • Added

      Bulk update workflow for product meta fields with progress tracking and undo.

    • Added

      Image optimization (compression, resizing, JPEG/PNG/WebP/AVIF conversion) with original-image backups stored for restore.

    • Added

      LLMs.txt generator that aggregates store content so AI search platforms (ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok) can discover and recommend the store.

    • Added

      Multi-language SEO for stores using Shopify Markets — locale-aware editor and AI-assisted translation that preserves SEO intent.

    • Added

      SEO scoring engine with per-page recommendations and a store-level statistics dashboard.

    • Added

      Automation rules to auto-generate metadata and alt text for new products and collections, with per-feature opt-in.

    • Added

      Social Posts Assistant for Instagram, Facebook and X copy, generated from your product catalog.

    • Added

      Meta backup exports (CSV) and weekly SEO performance email reports.

    • Added

      Subscription plans plus one-time credit packs, billed through Shopify.

    • Security

      GDPR-compliant data handling, encrypted newsletter storage, signed Shopify webhook verification and rate-limited public endpoints.

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