Welcome to StoreRank.ai!

StoreRank makes your Shopify store discoverable and recommendable by AI platforms like ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity. Follow these steps to optimize your store for AI search in under 30 minutes.

What you’ll achieve

✅ AI platforms can understand and recommend your products
✅ Your store appears in AI search results
✅ Track when AI mentions your brand
✅ Monitor traffic and sales from AI sources
✅ Publish AI-optimized blog content automatically

Prefer to see how it works first?

Watch this quick walkthrough video to see how to use all core modules, set-up schema markup, enable AI crawler access and how to optimize your first products.

Step-by-Step Quickstart Set-up

Step 1: Configure Schema Settings (≈2 min)

Why this matters: Schema markup helps AI platforms understand your store, products, and brand authority. Verified social profiles and reviews increase recommendation likelihood. Shipping regions are critical—AI won’t recommend your store to regions you don’t ship to.

How to do it:

1. Go to Schema Settings

2. Fill out your business information:

   • Name, phone, email, address

   • Hours, description, founded year, primary category

   • Social media profiles (FB, IG, Twitter, LinkedIn, TikTok, Pinterest, YouTube)

   • External review sites (Trustpilot, G2, Yelp…)

3. Verify shipping regions (synced from Shopify)

4. Upload your logo or provide a URL

5. Select which Schema to activate:

   • Product Schema – safe to enable, skip if your theme already has it (learn how to check this here)

   • OnlineStore Schema – outputs on your homepage

   • FAQ Schema – outputs generated FAQs in schema

   • About Schema – optimizes About page

   • ContactPage Schema – optimizes Contact page

6. Click Save

Why social media & review sites matter:
These send authority and trust signals to AI platforms. Stores with verified social profiles and positive reviews get recommended above competitors without them.

Why shipping regions are crucial:
If AI doesn't know where you ship, it won't recommend your store to customers in those regions. Example: A US-only store without shipping regions won't be recommended to customers in Germany.

Step 2: Configure AI Article Autopilot (≈2 min)

Important: The topics/keywords are generated based upon your website URL and business description. We highly recommend filtering, editing and deleting certain keywords in the suggested keyword list before enabling auto-publish.

The AI Article Autopilot automatically:

• Finds high-opportunity keywords

• Generates fully structured blog articles

• Adds internal product mentions

• Inserts FAQ sections

• Outputs proper schema markup

• Publishes on schedule (or saves as drafts)

This gives you consistent long-tail traffic without manual content planning.

Step 3: Configure AI Crawler Access (≈1 min)

Why this matters: AI platforms like ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity need permission to crawl your store.

How to do it:

1. Navigate to AI Crawler Access

2. Review auto-generated llms.txt configuration (llms.txt tells AI which pages/products to index first)

3. Select Priority Products

4. Select Priority Collections

5. Add important pages: shipping, returns, size guides

6. Click Generate to create the file

Step 4: Optimize Your First Products (≈5 min)

Why this matters: Optimized product pages are more likely to be discovered and recommended by AI.

Transform your product pages to be AI-search optimized.

How to optimize:

1. Open AI Content Optimizer

2. Click Optimize Content on any product

3. Wait 1-2 minutes for AI to generate optimized content

4. Review the suggested improvements:

   • Product titles, Descriptions

   • Meta titles and Meta descriptions

   • FAQ sections (helpful questions & answers)

   • Image alt text

5. Edit where you see fit

6. Click Publish Changes when ready

Important: Nothing changes on your live store until you click "Publish." You review and approve everything first.

Pro tip: Start with your top 10 best-sellers for maximum impact.

Want to display the FAQs on your product pages? 

Add the FAQ section to your theme so customers can see your helpful FAQs.

How to display FAQs (set-up once):

1. Go to Online Store → Themes → Customize

2. Navigate to Products → Default product

3. Click Add section in the left sidebar

4. Select Apps → StoreRank Product FAQs

5. Drag the FAQ section to your preferred position (we recommend below product description)

6. Click Save

Why this matters:
✅ Customers get instant answers (fewer support tickets)
✅ AI platforms see you as more authoritative and helpful

Need detailed instructions? View complete FAQ setup guide →

Step 5: Set Up AI Mentions Tracking (≈2 min)

Why this matters: Track how AI platforms mention your brand compared to competitors and discover which sources AI uses.

How to do it:

1. Visit AI Mentions Tracker

2. Click Add Query

3. Add queries like:

   • "best [your product category] stores"

   • "where to buy [your main product]"

   • "top [your niche] brands in [region]"

   • "sustainable [your industry] brands"

4. Wait a few minutes for initial data

You’ll track:

• Mentions frequency

• Your ranking vs competitors

• Citation sources (Reddit, blogs, reviews)

• Sentiment (positive/neutral/negative)

• Platforms (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini)

Step 6: Monitor AI Traffic & Revenue (0 min setup)

Why this matters: Measure ROI from AI optimization and understand which products convert best.

How to do it:

1. Access AI Traffic & Revenue dashboard

2. Review analytics:

   • Total AI sessions & revenue

   • Performance by platform

   • Top AI-driven pages

   • Conversion rates vs organic traffic

Tip: Tracking begins automatically, no setup required.

What Happens Next?

Week 1–2:
AI begins crawling your store.

Week 2–4:
Visibility improves. First mentions may appear.

Month 2–3:
More optimized content → more AI exposure.

Month 3+:
Compounding growth.

How to Maximize Results

• Optimize 20–50 best-sellers

• Publish consistently with AI Article Autopilot

• Review AI Visibility Score weekly

• Monitor competitor mentions

• Improve citation sources

• Iterate based on data

🎉 Congratulations!

Your store is now optimized for AI discovery and recommendations. Check back weekly to track progress and continue optimizing.