DropInBlog: Blog Engine
by DropInBlog · launched
View in Shopify App Store ↗Reviews (196)
They'll steal your money and your data. I paid for a 12 month subscription here and went to cancel with 4 months remaining in my subscription. They instantly deactivated the blog and refuse to compensate for the ~4 months I paid for. Sketchy, scammy developers. AVOID.
Developer reply ·
Hi there, We'd like to share the full timeline of this conversation, exactly as it happened in our support chat: - You reached out because your blog went offline after uninstalling our app, and asked us to either re-enable your account or refund the remaining months of your yearly subscription. - We replied two minutes later and asked which option you preferred: a refund, or help getting your blog back up right away, with all your data intact. - You told us you preferred getting the blog back up, then stopped replying to our messages. - Two days later, we proactively issued the refund. Our offer still stands. If you'd like our help getting your blog back up for the remaining months, please reach out and we'll take care of it. We know merchants read the 1-star section to see how an app behaves when something goes wrong, and we're happy for this conversation to be part of that record.
this is hard to use. it doesnt make pretty blogs. it simply sucks.
I have tried for months to figure this app out. I have asked to sit down with the developer team. I tried again today, and it just does not seem like this app is capable or doing what I need it to do. It is also very expensive, and for the life of me I can not figure out why.
Developer reply ·
Sorry to hear things didn’t work out. We spent quite a bit of time trying to understand your requests, but they were often unclear or shifting, which made it difficult to pinpoint exactly what wasn’t meeting your needs. DropInBlog is used by thousands of stores ranging from simple setups to advanced, high-traffic content operations. It installs in a few clicks and works out of the box, with powerful SEO features, clean design, and portability beyond Shopify. As for pricing: we’re not just a skin on top of Shopify’s built-in blog, we replace it entirely with a faster, SEO-optimized system that works independently from Shopify. This gives our users portability, better performance, and more features. That level of functionality comes with real infrastructure behind it. We're standing by if you'd like to give it another shot.
absolutely not if you already have a blog. you HAVE to make all those blogs you already did put into 301 redirects. Nothing will update when you make changes unless you do that. The app is essentially something running on their system that you redirect to using your own website. they add code to your theme to do this. if you ever want out and use their service to make blog posts, you have to export everything by csv and upload it to your own site, which would mess up yoru seo by a lot. very archaic tech and not super useful if you already have a built out blog.
Developer reply ·
You hit the nail on the head! We are not just a page builder on top of the built-in Shopify Blog. There are so many limitations to what Shopify gives us and adding onto it will just make it even slower and worse for SEO. DropInBlog is from the ground up but still works inside your store. We have a better URL structure and faster page load times — just like Google likes. And as you pointed out we have an easy import from your existing blog and even handle the 301 redirects for you. And for any reason if you ever want to leave DropInBlog and go to any other blogging platform you can export all your posts from the panel. Our goal is to make your more money by ranking your posts higher and driving more customers to your store — that's something we'll stand by.
This app claimed SEO friendly but in fact it hurts your store SEO a lot. Too many issues. Uninstalling the app.
Developer reply ·
Hey folks, I would love to hear what specific issues you had. We have 1000s of users that are improving their search engine rankings daily. We took a look at your account and were a bit confused at how it hurt your SEO since you had it installed for less than two weeks and didn't officially even launch the blog to your users. We're all ears and always looking to improve. Hit us up on live chat anytime and hopefully we can solve this for you :)
You can write blog posts, and they look okay when you post them. They have three layouts to choose from for the blog listing page (2 of them are terrible). They try their best to offer a decent onboarding experience(it's not good, though). My biggest issue is the price. $50/month is an insult for the tiny feature-set it offers. The SEO features are a gimmick that don't work properly and have questionable value. The actual experience of writing a blog post is terrible. You have no way to customize the appearance or layout of your blog posts. The actual blog creation interface is a run-of-the-mill editor they copied and pasted from some open-source platform. It's a real hassle to use.
Developer reply ·
We're sorry that DropInBlog wasn't a fit for you. We are very open to constructive feedback as we are constantly working on our product. We are not trying to be and don't claim to be a visual page editor. We are a blog platform focused on SEO.. so it's a bit surprising to hear the negativity on our SEO Analyzer. It was built by top SEO professionals using industry best practices. In addition to SEO our goal is to have a simple way to embed products so that you can convert readers into customers. If there is some part you found hard to use or we didn't make intuitive we'd love to hear your feedback so we can improve.
