BOOSTER SEO & IMAGE OPTIMIZER , 6,914 reviews
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Merchants highly recommend this app for its robust SEO and image optimization features, including automatic image correction, link fixing, and SEO-friendly alt tags and file names. They appreciate the autopilot setting, intuitive interface, and increased traffic from enhanced Google snippets. Detailed SEO reports and automatic sitemap updates are also valued. The customer support is described as responsive and knowledgeable, often going the extra mile to assist. Merchants see it as a solid investment that boosts conversion rates and improves user experience.
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Mediocre and expensive. I am glad I rid of it. Moreover, even uninstalled for more than a month it CHAREGED me $69!!!!
Use TinyIMG instead - it is MUCH MORE efficient and cost a fraction of that one.
Hi Marina,
Lester here from Booster SEO Tier 2 Support. I've just read your app store review and I want to extend my sincerest apologies for the negative experience you've had.
Your feedback is extremely valuable to us, and we genuinely care about your business that's why we're taking this matter very seriously. We hope for an opportunity to make things right and show you the true value of our app. So I've sent you an email so we can continue the conversation and discuss specifics.
Once again, please accept our sincere apologies and I look forward to hearing back from you soon.
Sincerely,
Lester
The app is easy to use but it only added alt text to some of my product pictures, most of the pictures they did not do. I thought it was a timing and queue issue but it has been one day and most of the pictures still aren't updated. Will be looking for another app.
Takes advance payment but fails to provide premium service if you cancel your subscription 3 weeks before the next billing cycle. So essentially paying for a service they can not provide!
Have not seen anything on the sales part. And my meta tag scan always shows as something wrong and then everything else says its not wrong. currently looking for another app
Hi VLB Lash Supply Store,
Thank you for your feedback.
I'm sorry to hear that you haven't seen any improvement in your sales since installing our app. Just want to clarify that the purpose of our app is to improve your SEO (and therefore your traffic and sales) over time. However, SEO improvement is a gradual, long-term process because of how Google and other search engines work.
- It takes Google up to several weeks to update its listings of your pages, so changes from the app do not immediately appear in Google results.
- It takes even longer for SEO to start making an impact on your site traffic and sales: 4 to 6 months on average, because of how search engines track SEO.
So any changes due to our app cannot have had any effect on your traffic or sales at this point(the app was just installed last month).
Regarding the meta tag issues you mentioned, we would be happy to help you out with those, we sent you an email so that we can start working on it.
Looking forward to your response to the email we sent you so that hopefully we could turn around your experience with our app.
Cheers,
Darrel
*Update May 2023:*
Darrel here, Support Manager at Booster SEO!
I just wanted to personally follow up with you and let you know our SEO Support team sent you an update email to help make things right and resolve this, but we haven’t heard back from you yet.
Let us know if there’s anything we can help with – and you can reach us anytime at help@boosterseo.com
you let me rate even before i use it - - like seriously and you force me to write at least a 100 characters???
App randomly deletes uploaded images both for products and blog posts.
Hi Grand Goldman and Co,
James here with the Booster SEO team. Yikes. I am so sorry to hear this happened. That should _never_ happen. I've got our Tier 2 team looking into this right now. In fact it's not possible for the app to do this, so I'm thinking this could be a clue to something else. In any case we'll look into it now and reach out over email shortly.
I also reached out over email to help make things right. If you have any questions please touch base with our support manager, darrel@boosterseo.com.
Cheers,
James
I used Booster SEO over the last few months, before ultimately deciding to stop using it over the last few weeks as I transitioned to doing technical SEO work more manually.
The app is easy to install and automatically works on technical SEO work for you, which is nice. However, the main issue with this app is that it is quite vindictive if you ever stop using it and try to uninstall it. Using Ahrefs Site Audit as a reference, before installing Booster SEO and working on technical SEO my site audit score was an 89. Partly with Booster's help, as well as with manual technical SEO work (fixing broken links, adding manual 301 redirects, removing unnecessary webpages, etc.) that I did with my internal team we got this score up to a 99. However, after removing Booster SEO the score dropped to a 66 since Booster SEO removed my title tags on the way out, as well as undid the fixes that they made. They are transparent on undoing changes they made if you uninstall, but it looks like they will go even further than that and change things that they did not fix in the first place. So I would think long and hard about starting to use this app, and would recommend taking the time and effort to work on technical SEO manually which I think will pay off in the long run.
The other issue with Booster is that the 301 redirects for broken links that Booster sets up are not very smart. All 301 redirects that Booster sets up automatically go to the homepage, which is not a great experience both from a user experience as well as apparently (according to my SEO agency) in Google's eyes. It would be a lot more valuable if Booster tried to guess what the most relevant page was to redirect to, and then the user could approve/disapprove these proposed 301 redirects.
Hi Kevin,
Pat here from Booster Apps Support.
We apologize for any inconvenience caused during the uninstallation process. When uninstalling Booster SEO, only the app's meta tags are removed, while the default meta tags from your theme remain intact. It is common for SEO apps to leave the theme's page title and meta description commented out for technical reasons.
Additionally, our app creates a backup copy of your theme.liquid folder, allowing you to revert your theme back to its original state.
Regarding the redirection of broken links, our Autopilot feature enables bulk editing of redirect destinations. This gives you the ability to specify the desired destination URL for each broken link, directing visitors to the most relevant pages on your website instead of the homepage.
However, we'd be happy to look further into this for you. I have followed up with an email to you personally, in which we would be happy to hear from you and get to turn around your all-over experience using our app.
Again, we sincerely apologize for this inconvenience.
Regards,
Pat
Just installed, we shall see how this works. I have never used one before. I am hoping for the best.
Hi there! If you have any questions about the app I'd love to help out! In the meantime, would you re-consider your one star review?
Echt een geweldige app. In een paar seconden heb je al de belangrijkste dingen voor elkaar, zoals de ALT-tekst voor afbeeldingen, om goed gevonden te worden. Handmatig ben je hier echt een dag mee bezig. En gratis ook nog.
Update: Heb de app alsnog verwijderd, omdat er te veel reklame kwam om te upgraden.
Het lijkt er nu op dat er een stukje code is achtergebleven, waardoor mijn webshop erg traag is geworden na het deinstalleren.
@admin, kunnen jullie een linkje sturen met instructies om de app juist te verwijderen? Als jullie het hier bijhouden op de forum, en als het lukt om de overbodige app bestanden te verwijderen, zal ik mijn waardering weer aanpassen.
No any instructions how to make template, no option to change later alt text and this change to stay. Actually they always return to the app position and have to remove the app to have my changes. I am not happy of the