December 23, 2019Benny Chan No Comments

Merry X’mas to all SPO users!

Dear SPO users,

Thanks for your support in the year! Over the year, there are more users joining SPO. Hopefully, the growth will accelerate in the new year. We’ll continue to improve our service to serve you better.

What’re we up to?

2 weeks ago. We’ve added the support for Page. To be honest, I didn’t realize landing pages were useful for holiday promotions, therefore, I overlooked the part. Fortunately, I can add this part within a few days to support your before Christmas rush promotion campaigns.

Since some users are not satisfied with the performance of SPO, I am trying to upgrade our server & code base to make it faster. But it takes tremendous efforts to review every part to make it work like the current version. Also, the code base is a bit old. I hope the first upgrade can be deployed before the end of 2019. After finishing this post, I will continue my work very soon.

What’s next in 2020?

First of all, I will try to fix the bugs remaining. For new features, I am considering bulk edit of link previews. If you wanna raise a feature request, feel free to leave a comment here, fill in our survey or simply drop me a mail.

Merry X’mas to all of you! Hope you’ll enjoy X’mas with our loved one! 🙂

August 28, 2019Benny Chan No Comments

SPO v1.7 update – Performance Improved

Hi SPO users,

I’ve updated SPO again. This time I am more focused on performance improvement.

Changes:

Collection and blog articles will be loaded on clicking the tab. The original design is loading together with products, store, and other information. In the new loading, page navigation will become faster
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Commonly used variables will be loaded on our server instead of fetching from Shopify.
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The page navigation at the bottom left-hand side is adjusted

While the changes may be a little technical for you to understand, please let me know if you find any issues or raise any improvements. Some users emailed me to report that the Facebook link preview section was not responsive and the submit button was not working. Unfortunately, I can’t duplicate the issue in my test app. Please let me know what information you inputted if you find the issue. I would be happy to fix it.

At the meantime, I am looking for a new problem to solve in Shopify. Feel free to ping me and I am happy to offer you to be my next forever-free users! 😉

December 6, 2018Benny Chan No Comments

SPO v1.6 update – Support Collections

Dear SPO users,

Thanks for your continuous support for the last 2 years. Some of you may be asking for the support of Collections. I guess you may occasionally want to promote a whole product category instead of a single product. Hope the new feature is useful for your X’mas promotion!

Now, you can optimize your collections just like your products. While we have done basic testing to cover general use cases, it may still have glitches since this change has affected many existing functions. Please let us know if you find any issues. We’ll try to fix them asap.

If you like our App, please leave us a review on our Shopify App Store listing page! We’ll need your support in order to continuously improve the app.

Merry X’mas! Have a wonderful Christmas with your loved one! 🙂

November 29, 2018Benny Chan No Comments

Book a Skype session with Benny

Since SPO launched at the end of 2016, we have been helping our Shopify store owners to solve problems regarding social marketing and SEO.

It’s time to do more for our valuable customers!

I decide to have a chat with you if you find any pains in SEO, social marketing or content marketing. I may not be able to help you solve your problems immediately. But I’ve been in the software business for 10 years. (If you are curious about my company or my professional background, take a look at SillyCube or my personal blog). I might probably solve your business problems before.

In my opinion, some of your problems may be more about the business instead of technical stuffs. If you are one of the SPO users, feel free to shoot me an email to book a timeslot. Though my normal work hour is GMT +8:00, 10:00 – 19:00 Mon – Fri, I will try to make it possible.

I can only be available in Dec 2018 since I will be quite busy in the new year.

p.s. If you’re a US user, please speak slower so that I can better understand your accent.

November 8, 2018Benny Chan No Comments

A known issue about the feature image of blog articles

Recently, some users are reporting that there is an issue about blog articles.

We found that the featured image of the blog article would be gone when the focus keyword or meta description was updated for a blog article. After checking our code, we found that when the article was updated, the featured image would be cleared though we didn’t change it. We were not sure whether this issue was related to the Shopify API.

At the moment, we can’t find a fix for the issue. Users need to manually re-upload the featured image to the article.

We have submitted an inquiry to reach Shopify developer support here: https://ecommerce.shopify.com/c/shopify-apis-and-technology/t/article-featured-image-is-removed-when-i-update-article-title-and-body_html-with-api-544842

Please subscribe to the thread if you want to keep track of the issue.

September 8, 2018Benny Chan No Comments

SPO v1.5 update – Default Options

Dear SPO users,

Thanks for your continuous support. Though we didn’t publish new feature update here for a long time, we’ve been fixing various bugs and adding enhancements at the backstage.

Here are some highlights of SPO changes:

New Features
- In Setting, users can select to use the first or last product image as the default Facebook link preview for all products.
- Twitter link preview is also supported
Enhancements
- The Facebook and Twitter link preview of products (the og:image tag) will use the actual image URL if you select “Add image by URL”
Bug fixes
- Some users cannot install our app due to an error message “not in a plan”. The error is fixed
Deprecated
- The campaign feature is deprecated as very few users are interested

If you like our App, please leave us a review on our Shopify App Store listing page! We’ll need your support in order to continuously improve the app.

Please let us know your opinions regarding the update. We would be happy to hear from you!

July 13, 2018Benny Chan No Comments

?? Your feedback is crucial to us. Please let us know your opinion!

Since December 2016, SPO has launched to help Shopify store owners to improve SEO and Social Link Preview. For store owners, generating sales is always the most challenging task. Getting traffics and customer information will be the 2nd and 3rd challenges.

I would like to thank you for your support for the past 2 years, whether you are a free user or paid user. Running an online business is never an easy task. Our little software business is just like your online store. For us, the most challenging part will be developing a feature that you’ll find it useful.

So we would like to invite you to fill in an online survey for us. It will take around 3 min with several questions. Users who help us to finish the survey will be able to try new functions or products for free.

January 28, 2018Benny Chan 1 Comment

Facebook has blocked editing of link preview image and what it means for you?

Due to the continuous attempts of Facebook to reduce fakes news, link baits or misleading contents, Facebook has announced a new News Feed algorithm update which will limit the reach of content shared by profiles which regularly post a heap of links in quick succession.

On July 18, 2017 the ability to edit link preview content (title, description and preview image) will no longer be available for most Pages and apps. Previously, you can change the preview image with your own image. Now the feature has been disabled forever.

I am sure all of you find the feature disappeared. The change has become a trouble for many social media agencies and publishers. As an online store owner, you can longer set up promotion images for your facebook posts.

What you can do to solve the problem

There are a few ways you can try.

Domain Verification to claim your site
Facebook has rolled out a solution for media publishers (not yet for other companies). To implement domain verification, you need to choose between two different methods:
1. add a DNS TXT entry to your DNS record to confirm that you own the domain, or
2. upload an HTML file provided by Facebook to your web directory and confirm domain ownership in Business Manager. You can follow the detailed instructions on the captioned website.
Edit your Open Graph tags before sharing
The existing way to edit link preview image with Open Graph tags doesn’t change at all. You can still edit the related og tags to get your desired share posts. But you also need to edit your website coding manually. Of course, you can use our Shopify App – SPO to simplify the process for you. We would be happy to help!

What’s next?

We are researching the possibility of building a simple tool to solve the problem. Please feel free to let us know if you’re interested via support[@]seo-product-optimizer.com. We would be happy to hear from you!

Reference of formal announcement

Link Preview Editing – https://www.facebook.com/business/help/247886969033572
Domain Verification – https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/domain-verification#who
A Guide to Sharing for Webmasters – https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters

What’re we up to?

What’s next in 2020?

Changes:

Here are some highlights of SPO changes:

What you can do to solve the problem

What’s next?

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