AI Search Indexing & smarter competitor tracking

AI Search Indexing
StoreRank now pushes your store updates to search engines through IndexNow the moment you make them. Products, collections, pages and blog posts are submitted automatically, and every submission shows up in Submission History with its status. IndexNow feeds Bing, which powers Microsoft Copilot and is one of the sources behind ChatGPT search. Google keeps picking up your changes through your sitemap. Find it under Settings → AI Search Settings.

Signed up before October 9, 2026? One quick step is needed: update your app proxy URL in Shopify so it ends in /apps/storerankai. Here’s how.

AI & Search Visibility: Competitors
The Competitors view is now split into two sections: Your tracked competitors and Detected competitors. Detected competitors are brands AI recommends next to you that you don’t track yet. Add them to your tracked list with Track, or use Ignore to hide brands that aren’t real competitors. You can change your list anytime under Manage competitors.