Booster SEO rewrote your meta titles on hundreds of products — how to get the originals back
Booster SEO's AutoPilot and bulk optimization apply a meta-title template across your whole catalog in a single run, and that run replaces any titles you wrote by hand. Turning the app off or downgrading afterward usually only undoes its most recent batch, so the rest of your products keep the templated titles. Your original wording isn't truly gone — but Shopify won't restore it for you, and it isn't sitting in any standard export.
If you didn't already have a backup, those old values are gone — Shopify keeps no history.
The steps below recover what you can. To make the next time a 1-click undo instead of hours of CSV work: a daily snapshot of every SEO field. Free to monitor, no card — and SEO Vault only reads your store unless you click restore.
Stop Booster SEO from writing any more changes first. Open the app and switch off AutoPilot, any scheduled optimization, and any active meta-title template so it stops re-applying templates while you work. Then check the app's own change history or revert option and run it — but expect it to roll back only its latest batch, not all 500 products, which is exactly why downgrading feels like it only fixes part of the problem.
Confirm what changed and how far it spread. In Shopify admin, open several affected products and look at the Search engine listing section (click Edit, then check the Page title field). You'll usually see Booster's template pattern (something like "Product name – Store name") where your own wording used to be. Spot-check a few products you know were edited before vs. after the run so you understand the real scope before you touch anything in bulk.
Track down any pre-change copy of your titles. Shopify keeps the SEO title as product data, and the standard product CSV export does not include it — so a routine Shopify backup won't hold your originals. Look instead for a record you kept yourself: a spreadsheet, an export from a bulk-SEO tool, or a crawl from an SEO platform. If you have none, partial originals sometimes survive in Google Search Console's Performance report (old title text), Google's cached pages, or the Wayback Machine. Pull back what you can and accept that some titles may need rewriting from scratch.
Restore every title in one pass instead of opening 500 products one at a time — and put something in place so this can't quietly happen again. This is exactly what SEO Vault is built for: it snapshots every product and collection's meta title, description, alt text, tags, and handles once a day, alerts you the moment a mass change hits (and flags the app that most likely caused it), and restores the previous values in one click. With a daily snapshot already saved, a single bad AutoPilot or bulk run gets rolled back in minutes instead of costing you a day of retyping.
Source: Shopify Help Center — guidance on editing a product's search engine listing (Products > select a product > Search engine listing > Page title and Meta description).
SEO Vault keeps a daily snapshot of every SEO field on your store — meta titles, descriptions, alt-text, tags, handles (products AND collections) — and emails you the moment something changes in bulk, with the likely app responsible. One click restores yesterday's state, just the SEO fields. Free to monitor and get alerted; $14/mo for 1-click restore.