Spice-Land Wholesale review for Sherpas: Smart SEO

Sept. 11, 2024

Updated Review After using the Smart SEO app for about 3 months, I’m disappointed to say that it simply did not meet my expectations. Despite being on the Business Plan, the app failed to deliver the promised improvements, and I’m now happily deleting it. Meta Tags: The app’s approach to meta tags is overly simplistic, focusing only on character counts without taking content relevance or focus keywords into account. This made it difficult to optimize for SEO properly, and the results were underwhelming. Alt Image Attributes: The alt image feature was basic, and I didn’t notice any significant impact on SEO. There was no advanced functionality or customization to help tailor alt tags for my products effectively. Page Speed: One of my major concerns was page speed, which is critical for SEO performance. Unfortunately, the app made no noticeable improvements in this area. Despite multiple tests, my site’s loading time remained the same. JSON-LD and Structured Data: I encountered frequent issues with the JSON-LD structured data, which led to errors in Google Search Console. These problems persisted without resolution, making my SEO efforts more difficult. Broken Links: The broken links feature was essentially useless. Google Search Console continued to report thousands of broken links, and the app didn’t help in fixing them. This added to the frustration of managing my site’s SEO. Sitemap Submission: I had recurring issues with submitting my sitemap to Google Search Console through the app. It either failed to submit or disconnected frequently, causing more issues than it solved. Overall: In the end, Smart SEO proved to be more trouble than it was worth. It didn’t deliver on its promises, and after about 3 months of trying to make it work, I’m happily deleting the app and moving on to better solutions. I wouldn’t recommend this app to other Shopify users based on my experience.