biket.co.za review for BOOSTER SEO & IMAGE OPTIMIZER
Nov. 14, 2025
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. **** 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
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