What is eCommerce SEO?
As you might know, SEO as a service involves several techniques and methods that might vary from one niche to the other. However, when it comes to eCommerce, most dominant e-commerce websites share similar patterns when it comes to SEO practices.
In online stores, category and product pages can be utilized as focal points to direct customers to those specific pages you want them to navigate through and make purchasing decision at.
Some SEO practices are quite straightforward, such as internal linking between relevant products, category pages, creating structured data (schema markup) to help engines understand the semantics of the website, and shopping guides (blogs). Furthermore, adding a brief helpful copy to your product/category as “money pages” can lift rankings.
What does an eCommerce SEO strategy consist of?
A successful eCommerce SEO strategy doesn't rely on a single tactic, it's built on four interconnected pillars working together.
On-page, Off-page SEO, technical SEO, and data analytics.
These four components form a complete, sustainable SEO strategy that drives compounding organic growth over time.
On-page SEO ensures every product page, category page, and piece of content is targeting the right keywords, with the right structure, and intent to attract and convert the target audience.
Off-page SEO builds the website's authority and trustworthiness through quality backlinks and brand mentions across the web. For search engines, backlinks act as votes and citations.
Technical SEO lays the foundations; making sure the site is fast, crawlable, and functioning properly without issues that could hold rankings back.
No SEO strategy is complete without measuring what's actually working. We track key performance indicators across the website: organic traffic, keyword rankings, CTR, session duration, conversions, and more. By using tools like GA4 and Google Search Console. This data doesn't just tell us the curent performance; it tells us what are the areas of improvement.
What sets us apart for online shopping stores?
- Customized strategy: We customize our eCommerce SEO service strategy based on your niche, your target audience, and competition.
- We utilize web data: Since numbers speak louder than words, we extract user behaviour data and competitors data to figure out what patterns work best for your niche.
- Responsive Pages: We contribute in building user-friendly, fast, and responsive commercial pages that don't only look shiny from the outside but also convert.
- Matching search intent: We match search intent behind keywords under the topics your website should rank for, prioritizing commercial keywords.