AutoRank — AI SEO & Conversion App for Shopify

Role: Full-stack developer (design + frontend + backend) Type: Embedded Shopify app (public app)

Overview

AutoRank is an AI-powered SEO and conversion-optimization app for Shopify merchants. It automates a store's entire organic-growth workflow — writing and publishing SEO blog content, optimizing on-page metadata, auditing technical SEO, and diagnosing conversion drop-offs — all from inside the Shopify admin. It uses a bring-your-own-key (BYOK) model, so merchants connect their own AI provider (OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, or Groq) and the app orchestrates everything around it.

What it does

AI blog automation — writes full SEO articles in the store's brand voice on a schedule (daily/weekly), with auto-publishing, AI/stock featured images, JSON-LD structured data, and a topic queue.

SEO optimizer — bulk-generates product-accurate meta titles and descriptions for products and pages, with per-item SEO scoring.

Image optimizer — real image compression (before/after byte savings) plus AI-generated alt text.

Site audit — sitemap-driven technical SEO crawl, broken-link detection with one-click 301 redirects, and Core Web Vitals (PageSpeed).

CRO deep scan — renders the live storefront in a real headless browser, captures desktop/mobile screenshots, diagnoses the conversion funnel (where shoppers drop off) using Shopify analytics, and runs a vision-based AI audit that returns exact fixes. Includes a consent-aware behavioral click heatmap.

Features control center — one-click toggles that do real work: auto-publishing HTML sitemaps, JSON-LD rich-result schema, and set-and-forget AI automations.

Google Search Console integration for live search-performance data.

Tech stack

React Router v7 · TypeScript · Shopify Polaris & App Bridge · Node.js · Prisma · PostgreSQL (Neon) · BullMQ · Shopify Admin GraphQL API · Theme app extensions & app proxy · Puppeteer/Chromium · Fly.io · AES-256-GCM encryption

Highlights

Built a Polaris-native design system with a clear "green = action, purple = AI" visual language and reusable components.

Real browser-rendered CRO analysis (screenshots + funnel + heatmap), not just static checks.

Secure BYOK architecture with encrypted credentials and multi-provider AI abstraction.

Consumption-based billing with a 7-day trial and three subscription tiers. App URL: https://apps.shopify.com/autorank-seo-blog-cro