Running your first SEO scan

Your first analysis starts on its own the first time you open RankEngine. Here's what it does and how to read the results.

What gets checked

Surface	What RankEngine checks
Products, collections, pages, blog posts	SEO title and meta description, text length, image alt text, headings, structured data, internal links
Your storefront	Page speed, structured data, canonical tags, robots.txt, llms.txt
AI search	How ready your store is for AI answers, and how often AI engines mention it

Onboarding shows each step as it runs: syncing store data from Shopify, crawling pages for SEO issues, testing page speed, checking AI visibility, discovering keyword rankings, finding top competitors, analyzing backlinks and building your growth strategy. You can keep using the app while it works.

The scores you'll see

The Dashboard's Store health card shows four scores from 0 to 100:

SEO — the on-page health of your pages.
AI visibility — how ready your store is for AI answers (llms.txt, robots access, schema), blended with how often AI engines mention it.
PageSpeed — Google PageSpeed for your storefront.
Schema — your structured data.

Click a score to open its tool. A score that has not been measured yet says so instead of showing a number.

What if my score is low?

That's normal for a first scan — finding what to fix is RankEngine's job.

Open SEO Checker → Issues to see each issue and the pages it affects.
Fix issues at the top of SEO Checker fixes the issues RankEngine can fix for you, after a preview.
Issues that need a person (for example, heading problems in your theme) are listed in Agent Ready › Needs you with what to do.

Running scans again

On demand: Run full scan on the Dashboard, or Run audit in SEO Checker (Deep crawl is under its more-actions menu).
Automatically: on your plan's cadence — daily on Basic, every 6 hours on Pro. Separately, product changes you save in Shopify are synced to RankEngine shortly afterwards.
One page: open the page in On-Page SEO and click Rescan.