Are SEO apps effective for improving SERP performance?

@DavidR2D2
Probably not worth it. Shopify is pretty well optimised for SEO out of the box.

Main on-site things to get right are:

  • check all your pages load quickly

  • make sure your product descriptions are unique

  • add Alt tags to all images

  • use Collection descriptions and think about how to structure your collections from an SEO perspective

  • use blog posts

  • internal linking

  • Various other small tweaks but the above should get you most of the way there.

Ahrefs has a decent and free site auditing tool that you can set to run regularly and will highlight things to fix. https://ahrefs.com/webmaster-tools

The rest is then down to off-site SEO, targeting the right keywords, backlinks, etc.