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I installed Booster SEO expecting a simple on-page optimizer. Within a few weeks my Shopify analytics exploded with thousands of fake visits — all from China and other random IPs — completely wrecking my data.
After uninstalling, the traffic didn’t stop. The app had injected external scripts from cdn.boosterapps.net into my theme files, which kept calling remote servers long after removal. It took hours to clean the code manually and the bot hits still haven’t stopped because their crawler network keeps hammering my store.
This is not “AI SEO.” It’s artificial traffic generation that pollutes analytics, misleads store owners, and risks SEO penalties from Google for suspicious behaviour.
I’ve removed every trace of it, revoked their access, and had to set up Cloudflare just to block the bot network they created.
If you value clean data, real customers, and your site’s reputation — do not install Booster SEO. It causes more harm than good.
Once this parasite of an App stops with the traffic i will remove this review.
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REPLY to their reply useles PR reply.
Hi Lester,
You can keep repeating the same script, but my data tells the story. The traffic spike didn’t appear “sometime after SEO updates” it began within days of installing Booster SEO and vanished after I removed every reference to your cdn.boosterapps.net scripts and revoked your API access. That’s not correlation. That’s causation.
If your app “only uses Shopify’s API,” then explain why your code physically inserted external script tags into my theme files, code that had to be manually deleted. Shopify’s own APIs don’t require client-side JavaScript hosted on your CDN. The moment your app injected those scripts, it triggered external calls and persistent bot activity.
You can dress it up as “reindexing” or “AI scraping,” but no other app I’ve ever used caused anything remotely like this. Booster SEO did. It polluted analytics, wasted my time, and forced me to set up Cloudflare-level filtering just to stop the flood.
I don’t need more explanations about theoretical scraping trends or Google anomalies, I need accountability from your side. If you truly “take integrity seriously,” audit your external scripts and stop pushing traffic loops onto merchant stores.
Until then, I’ll continue warning other store owners to steer clear.
Hi there,
Lester here from Booster SEO Tier 2 Support. I’m sorry to hear about your experience but I want to clarify a few things. Booster SEO does not generate fake traffic ever.
Our app only performs on-page SEO optimizations like meta tags, image alt texts, and structured data through Shopify’s API. The cdn.boosterapps.net reference you mentioned simply hosts assets for the app’s interface, much like how Shopify uses cdn.shopify.com, and it does not initiate traffic.
Traffic spikes like the ones you noticed can sometimes happen after SEO updates as search engines reindex your site. Recently, there’s also been an increase in automated bots scraping content for AI purposes, which can inflate analytics. I have sent you an email with further details about this.
If you’d like, I can guide you on filtering bot traffic in Google Analytics or Shopify to help verify the source. Simply respond to the email we sent so we can discuss this further.
We take our app's integrity very seriously and we’d love to help you regain confidence in your analytics and SEO setup.
Best regards,
Lester
Been paying the top price for this app for numerous years, upon checking today i can see the app has done nothing at all in over a year; despite my website having a total redesign in this time. I'd like a refund for every month ive paid for this app and the app has done absolutely nothing at all
Hi there,
Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback, and we’re truly sorry for the confusion and frustration this caused. After checking your account, we confirmed that your SEO optimizations are fully active and working correctly in the background.
The issue you noticed, where the reports seemed inactive — was actually due to a temporary dashboard sync delay following recent Shopify API updates and our own dashboard redesign.
Our engineering team has already been working to stabilize this update so that your live SEO results display accurately again. In the meantime, we’ve verified that your backend SEO score is currently 90 (Grade A), which shows that your site remains properly optimized.
We’ve also reached out to you privately via email with a few follow-up details and a note of appreciation for your continued support.
Thank you again for sticking with us, we’re confident that everything will be fully synced and running smoothly shortly.
Warm regards,
Pat
Booster SEO Tier 2 Support
At first, it seemed like everything was fine and working well. My SEO errors were fixed, but the Google and Pinterest bots flagged the massive amount of automated processing as negative, and my ranking plummeted to 0 within two weeks due to this aggressive SEO booster. It caused me a lot of damage, even though I was told it wouldn't affect other apps. But it's more than clear, and I just hope Google regains confidence in my shop soon.
Hi there,
Thank you for taking the time to leave your feedback. I want to clarify a few important points regarding how our app works.
First, our app does not use AI or automated content generation for your meta tags. Instead, we rely on your existing product titles and collections to create clean, SEO-friendly meta tags. This is also why we provide the SEO Audits feature — to highlight areas where improvements may still be needed, leaving the final decisions and edits in your control.
Second, platforms like Pinterest and Google Merchant Center don’t actually use traditional SEO meta tags the way Google Search does. Instead, they rely on product feeds (separate data submissions that follow their own guidelines) to determine how your products are displayed. That means any warnings or issues you’re seeing there would be independent of our app’s SEO optimizations.
That said, I’d really like to help point you in the right direction. Could you please share the exact warnings or errors you’re receiving from Google or Pinterest? With more details, I can guide you on what they mean and how best to resolve them.
I have sent you an email so we can discuss this further. Looking forward to your response.
Best regards,
Lester
I've been waiting for almost half a year now on an update while the app isn't working. The people keep telling me things will be alights, but they won't. The product is outdated and doesn't work on my theme.
Hi Hein,
Thanks for sharing your feedback with us — I completely understand your frustration, and I want to assure you that your case has never left our radar.
The issue you're experiencing stems from a rare conflict between your store’s theme configuration and some recent updates on Shopify’s end. This conflict is preventing the app from working seamlessly with your theme, and it requires a specific technical solution. Our engineering team is working closely with Shopify to fully resolve this, but because of the complexity of the issue, it’s taking some time to ensure that everything is properly aligned and functioning.
Our team has been thoroughly investigating this, and while it’s still in progress, we’re making steady headway. We fully appreciate how important it is for you to have a smooth and reliable experience with the app, and we’re committed to getting this resolved for you.
In the meantime, I’ve sent you an email with further details on the issue, and once the fix is implemented, we’ll ensure that the app will function as expected within your store’s environment.
If you have any additional questions or if there’s anything else you’d like to discuss, please feel free to reach out. We’re here to help.
Best regards,
Pat
Booster SEO Tech Support
Well I enjoyed the app up until I actually ran it. Lost HUNDREDS of pictures for my items. Some pictures got duplicated, some go rearranged. Support was quick initially but once I had a real issue it was straight to the "email ticketing" system. Meanwhile my website looks horrible with missing pictures. On top of that, my website is connected to ebay so now all of my ebay pictures are also missing....
I will update this if they come through with a quick fix, but otherwise BEWARE!!!
Hi Gold Spartan,
Darrel here from Booster SEO.
I've read your recent review of our app, and I am so sorry to hear that it caused issues with your images.
Our app is not supposed to modify or delete anything on your site's front end since we only inject our app's SEO improvements directly into your site's source code.
Having said that, if our app indeed deleted your images, we sincerely apologize, and if you will give our app another chance we will be more than happy to investigate and get to the bottom of this issue.
We will thoroughly investigate this issue and get back to you as soon as possible.
We appreciate your patience and if you have any other questions, please respond to the email we sent you.
Best regards,
Darrel
A strange review for me I only had it installed for like 5 mins. I wanted to test it to see if I could use it. The free version lets you automatically update Image Alt tags. I was testing this when I got a popup asking to verify the store. I said yes. The person asked me to clarify the store name then asked me to wait "while he made changes". I asked him what changes and are they to my store. Remember at this stage I'd already given the app edit permissions.
He said not to worry they are only "coding changes". I said wait can you clarify you are making NO changes to my store excluding Alt tags on images". This is where I started to get a weird feeling about it. He said "Yes I'm making no changes directly to the frontend of your store" ????
I didn't like the ambiguous answer as that is far from a definitive YES so I uninstalled.
To be honest it could be great I didn't wait around long enough to see but the way direct questions were answered left me doubting them so I left.
Hi there,
Lester here from Booster SEO Tier 2 Support, I've just read your recent review of our app and I truly apologize for any confusion or concern caused during your brief interaction with our support team.
I completely understand how the situation may have felt unclear, and I appreciate the opportunity to clarify. The free plan of our app indeed focuses solely on optimizing image alt texts - nothing beyond that. The store verification process you encountered is simply a security measure to confirm that the store is legitimate (not a bot), which allows us to whitelist the store for our app’s optimizations (image alt text, in your case).
I understand that the terms used by our chat support team may have caused confusion, and I sincerely apologize for the poor choice of words. We’ll ensure our team communicates more clearly moving forward.
That said, we’d love the chance to start over and show you the true value of Booster SEO, so I sent you an email so we can discuss this further and find a way to make things right for you.
Looking forward to your reply!
Best regards,
Lester
Free plan broke all of my internal links, 636. Wont be purchasing paid plan. SEM rush certification recommended this, but I do not, at least the free plan. Reverted to my backup and immediately resolved.
Darrell, there's no IF, it did. Why would anyone give you a second chance when the first chance through the free option already created problems with website health. 90%-80%. It seems you could have a strategy to harm internal links by making the case that's only the free plan to motivate to upgrade. Not a good look and the negative reviews out there explain many more problems that tell me to avoid this tool.
Hi Tractor Part Direct,
Darrel here, from Booster SEO Support.
I've read your recent review of our app, and I am so sorry to hear that it caused issues with your internal links.
The free plan of our app is limited to one feature only, optimizing image alt tags (bits of image-related code) so that your product images are ranked higher on Google Images. It is not supposed to touch anything else on your store, unless, you are on one of our paid plans.
However, if our app did affect your internal links, we sincerely apologize, and if you will give our app another chance we will be more than happy to investigate and get to the bottom of this issue.
Should you decide to give our app another go, just respond to the email we've sent you.
Regards,
Darrel
The module has messed up all the meta fields and the order of the product photos.
We have to invest hours to correct everything that was caused by the module.
Hi there,
Lester here from Booster SEO Tier 2 Support, I have read your recent review and I sincerely apologize for the inconvenience and frustration this situation has caused. I want to address your concerns thoroughly and provide some clarity on the issue you’ve mentioned.
First, I’d like to reassure you that our app does not have the capability to directly edit or rearrange meta fields or product photos in your store’s backend. Our app works by creating overrides to optimize meta tags within the source code without altering your original Shopify settings. These changes are non-intrusive and cease to apply once the app is uninstalled. The issues you’ve experienced with product photos and meta fields may have been caused by another app or an unrelated configuration or compatibility error. Unfortunately, without access to your store during the time the app was installed, we could not investigate or identify any potential conflicts or sources of the problem. To address this, we’ve sent you an email with a detailed resolution and next steps to assist you further. Please don’t hesitate to reply if you have any additional questions or concerns—we’d love the opportunity to make things right.
Thank you for your understanding, and we’re committed to improving your experience moving forward.
Best regards,
Lester
WORSE APP EVER!!!!
I could not do any SEO audits when I first installed this app, so I waited the next day. Still, there are tons of bugs while I am trying to improve SEO performance.
So I decided to uninstall the APP.
THEY DELETED ALL META TITLE AND DESCRIPTIONS FOR ALL OF MY PAGES.
I have to restore a theme to an aged backup and start implementing the updates all over again.
STAY AWAP! USE OTHER APP!
Hi Pengpeng,
Thank you for taking the time to share your experience, and I deeply apologize for any frustration caused. We aim to provide seamless support and regret that your experience fell short of expectations.
I’d like to address your concerns regarding the meta titles and descriptions. Our app is designed to optimize SEO elements but does not inherently delete meta titles or descriptions from your store’s pages upon uninstallation. Such changes are often related to how theme integrations handle data or interactions with other third-party apps.
To assist you further, we’ve sent you an email outlining a resolution and next steps to help restore and improve your store’s SEO setup.
Please don’t hesitate to reply if you have any questions or require additional support—we’re here to help.
Thank you for your feedback. It helps us improve and better support merchants like you moving forward.
Best regards,
Pat
Booster Apps Support Team
This app broke my H1 and description tags, I reached out to support over 3 weeks ago, without a resolution.
I also used the app for a second time and was charged £60 for using it for under 24 hours. I was promised a refund that has still not materialized.
overly expensive, damaging to my website, and unsatisfactory support.
I don't recommend
Hi Drew,
Thank you for sharing your feedback, and I sincerely apologize for any inconvenience caused. We strive to provide the best support possible, and we regret that your experience didn’t meet your expectations.
Regarding the H1 tags, I’d like to clarify that our app does not have the capability to add or remove H1 tags or modify description tags within your store’s theme files. These elements are typically managed by your Shopify theme or other third-party apps.
To address this, we’ve sent you an email with a detailed resolution and next steps to assist you further. Please don’t hesitate to reply if you have any additional questions or concerns—we’d love the opportunity to make things right.
Thank you for your understanding, and we’re committed to improving your experience moving forward.
Best regards,
Pat
Booster SEO Support Team
