Traditions review for SEO King
Oct. 2, 2024
We like the app, but users should be very careful about using the apps automated optimizations to bulk edit. We bulk edited all of our images, which broke indexing for our search provider. It also generated thousands of metafields (yes, you read that right), which caused our product exports to be over 1GB. Turns out there's an easy fix -- enable "Use hidden metafields" in the optimization settings, but it would have been nice if that was clearer. Our search was down for hours and cost big time. The apps navigation is terrible and takes a while to get used to. I wish we could edit it / bookmark specific URLs. The SEO Editor should have it's own dedicated button in the nav IMO. Other than that, the app does provide very useful information. We love that it's connected to Search Console. The SEO editor is well thought out and easy to use. We love that our copywriters can get a "score". Overall, it's a very powerful app and we're happy to be using it. Just some growing pains.
Hi thank you for your candid review! Since SEO King has over 40 different tools, it's actually a challenge to organize them all within an effective menu system. Maybe we could add some quick shortcut buttons to the most popular tools directly below the main menu. As for the images - you can bulk optimize them with the rename filenames option turned off - which would not cause an issue with indexing. However you wouldn't get the SEO benefits of renaming. We've seen this issue before with some Search tools - and we feel that the search tools are at fault here since they should be capable of auto re-indexing when photo filenames are changed. In the least they should have a 're-index' button in their app. I hope you can speak with them about adding this to their app as it would help out all their users. We're glad you are enjoying the SEO Editor, it's definitely among the most powerful and it helps manage pages with multiple languages excellently as well. Cheers :)
