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LiteShoper SEO Checker: Full Guide & On-Site Audit

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LiteShoper SEO Checker (liteshoper-seo-checker) is a rules-based on-site auditor for your own store. Run a full check to get a score (0–100) and a prioritized list of missing meta titles, weak descriptions, thin content, empty categories, and site crawl issues.

Important: It does not crawl competitor or external websites. Live page checks stay on your store host only. Use it to diagnose; pair with SEO AI when you want generated copy.

On this page: Overview · Prerequisites · Install · Enable · Run audit · Dashboard · Issues · What it checks · Settings · SEO AI fixes · Checklist · Troubleshooting

1. Overview

  • Site SEO health score (0–100)
  • Audits products, posts, CMS pages, categories, homepage SEO, sitemap.xml, and robots.txt
  • Severity-ranked issues: Critical, High, Medium, Low
  • Fix hints + Edit links to each entity
  • Duplicate title and thin content detection
  • Configurable title / description / content length thresholds
  • Optional same-host live HTML fetch (H1, sitemap, robots)
  • Optional one-click meta fixes via SEO AI
  • One-time marketplace license

Plugin page: liteshoper.com/plugins/liteshoper-seo-checker

2. Prerequisites

  • LiteShoper store with published products / content
  • Active liteshoper-seo-checker license
  • Admin user with write access to SEO Checker (to run audits)
  • Optional: SEO AI installed, enabled, and API key set — only needed for auto-fix of missing/short meta

No Google Search Console or external SEO API signup is required for auditing.

3. Install the plugin

  1. Purchase / install from LiteShoper → SEO Checker
  2. Activate the plugin
  3. Open admin menu System → SEO Checker

4. Enable & configure settings

  1. Go to SEO Checker → Settings
  2. Check Enable SEO Checker
  3. Optional: Fetch live pages — fetches homepage, sitemap, robots, and sample product HTML on this host only. Turn off for a faster DB-only audit.
  4. Adjust thresholds if needed (defaults are sensible):
    • Min / max title length (default ~30–60)
    • Min / max description length (default ~70–160)
    • Min content length (approx. characters of text)
  5. Save settings

5. Run an audit

  1. Open SEO Checker → Dashboard
  2. Click Run audit
  3. Wait while the job processes in chunks (progress log updates in the UI)
  4. When status is done, your score and issue counts appear

If a run is already running, clicking Run again resumes / watches that job. Re-run after you fix content to refresh the score.

6. Read the dashboard

  • Score — 0–100 (good ≈ 80+, mid ≈ 60–79, needs work below 60)
  • Severity grid — Critical / High / Medium / Low open counts
  • Items with issues — how many unique site / product / post / page / category records still have problems
  • Top issues — quick list; open All issues for the full filterable table

7. Work through issues

  1. Open SEO Checker → Issues
  2. Filter by severity and entity type (site, product, post, page, category)
  3. Fix Critical and High first (e.g. noindex on published items, missing titles, sitemap down)
  4. Use Edit to open the product/post/page/category editor
  5. Follow each issue’s fix hint
  6. Optional: use Fix with SEO AI for supported meta issues (see below)
  7. Re-run the audit to confirm the score improved

8. What the audit checks

Content entities (products, posts, pages)

Issue (examples) Severity Meaning
Missing SEO title / description High Meta fields empty
Title / description too long or too short Medium / Low Outside your thresholds
Empty or thin content High / Medium Body text missing or too short
Missing product image High No image on product
noindex on published item Critical Blocked from search
Duplicate meta title High Same title on multiple URLs

Categories & homepage

  • Missing category meta title / description
  • Empty homepage SEO title / description (store Settings → SEO / Homepage)

Site health (when live fetch is on)

  • sitemap.xml reachable and looks like a valid XML sitemap
  • robots.txt reachable, has User-agent, and preferably a Sitemap: line
  • Sample HTML includes an <h1>

9. Auto-fix with SEO AI (optional)

SEO Checker detects issues; SEO AI can generate copy for some of them:

  • Missing / short meta titles and descriptions
  • Homepage and category missing meta fields
  1. Install and activate SEO AI
  2. Enable it and save an LLM API key under SEO AI settings
  3. From an issue row, click the AI fix action
  4. Review the generated text, then re-run the audit

If SEO AI is missing or unconfigured, the fix action returns an error pointing you to install / activate / add a key.

10. Admin pages

Page Path Purpose
Dashboard seo-checker Score, severity summary, run audit
Issues seo-checker/issues Filterable issue list + fixes
Settings seo-checker/settings Enable, live fetch, thresholds

11. Go-live checklist

  1. Plugin installed and enabled
  2. First audit completed (status done)
  3. Critical / High issues cleared or accepted
  4. /sitemap.xml and /robots.txt OK (if live fetch enabled)
  5. Homepage SEO title + description set
  6. Re-run audit; score improved
  7. Optional: SEO AI ready for ongoing meta fixes

12. Troubleshooting

Issue Fix
Run audit disabled / error “disabled” Enable SEO Checker in Settings
Audit stuck on “running” Click Run audit again to resume; or refresh after a few minutes
Score stays low after edits Re-run audit — results are from the last completed run
Sitemap / robots critical issues Confirm URLs open publicly on the store domain; fix core SEO routes
“seo_ai_required” Install/activate SEO AI and add API key
Want DB-only speed Turn off “Fetch live pages” in Settings
Expected competitor URL analysis Not supported — this plugin is same-host / this store only

References:
LiteShoper SEO Checker · SEO AI (optional fixes) · In-store: System → SEO Checker

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