Changelog

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.

StoreRank can now optimize your new products automatically, and publish the improvements you choose without waiting for review.

What's new

Two switches under AI Product Optimizer → Settings:

Optimize new products automatically Every product you add gets optimized using your selected fields, up to your monthly credit limit. This creates suggestions only, it doesn't publish anything.

Publish improvements automatically You pick which fields go live without review. Everything else waits under Needs review for your approval.

Recommended setup

Auto-publish Meta titles, Meta descriptions and Image alt text. These aren't shown on your product page, they just help search engines and AI understand your products.

Keep review on for Product titles, Product descriptions and FAQs. Those are what shoppers see, so you'll want the final word. You can hand them over later once you like the output.

Good to know

• Autopilot is off by default. Nothing changes until you enable it.

• It applies to new products only. Existing products can still be optimized in bulk from the Product Optimizer.

• Turning it on won't publish anything already sitting in Needs review.

• You can change which fields publish automatically at any time.

New AI Visibility Dashboard

The dashboard has been rebuilt from scratch. One view for what is actually happening across AI assistants and Google Search.

• AI search and Google search side by side. Brand presence, mentions, average position, citation sources and AI sessions for AI platforms. Sessions, revenue, orders, impressions and average position for Google.

• StoreRank content impact. Traffic, orders and revenue from pages StoreRank published or improved, measured first touch. No estimates, no projections.

• Agentic readiness. Your readiness score with checks passed, crawler access, llms.txt and schema status at a glance, plus quick wins you can fix in minutes.

• Where AI recommends you. Mentions, position, sessions and revenue per platform, including Google and AI Overviews combined, next to your top competitors.

• Article Autopilot and Product Optimizer status. Topics available, articles published, drafts waiting, catalog health and optimizations ready to review.

• Next moves. A short prioritized list based on your own data, so you always know what to do next.

Live now, nothing to enable.

Product schema rebuilt for agentic commerce

AI assistants and agentic checkouts read your product data to decide whether to recommend you and whether they can transact with you. Most stores are missing critical fields.

• ProductGroup schema. Products with variants now use ProductGroup with each variant as a linked Product, instead of a single flattened product. This is the format Google and shopping agents expect for multi variant catalogs.

• All variants included, not just the first one.

• Real SKU, GTIN and MPN where available.

• Item condition and structured product specs.

• Shipping details and return policy.

• Correct variant mapping for color, size, material and other options.

If you have not enabled Product Schema yet, now is the time to turn it on.