01 Sep How to Use Google and SEO to Improve Your eCommerce
The best eCommerce SEO strategy would include some very traditional tactics but there are some differences that you should consider. A basic eCommerce SEO strategy would involve technical SEO to help ensure search engines can crawl your site efficiently. It would also include local SEO to help drive local organic traffic and physical traffic (if you have a brick and mortar).
If you are a business or an SEO beginner who is looking for a free way to improve your website’s rankings,then consider using these free tools provided by Google:
In this article we will explore what differences between a traditional SEO strategy and one focussed on an eCommerce site.
Keyword Research
When considering what type of keywords to target for your eCommerce website you should always proceed cautiously as the two biggest pitfalls of poor keyword research are:
Target keywords that are high-intent and have “sales speech” included within. When you rank for “buy pest services near me” or “best plumber in Lehi, Ut” you will have better, more qualified traffic reaching your eCommerce site. This type of keyword research will lead to more conversions. Think of this as search query optimization rather than just simple keywords. Too often just short, non-branded terms are too difficult to rank for and bring in general traffic that is not ready to buy.
Strategic Keyword Optimization in Content
A fantastic eCommerce keyword research tactic is to target Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) keywords. These are keywords that are conceptually related terms that search engines use to more fully understand content on a webpage. You should consider targeting your product pages with LSI keyword terms that surround your main keyword.
Because eCommerce sites have to service a wide variety of audiences that want to research your products or simply purchase right away it can be difficult to fit in keywords. Have quality descriptions that include your keywords and LSI terms as well. You need to resolve the intent of users who are not convinced to buy and those that are somewhat ready and totally ready to purchase.
Site Architecture
eCommerce websites have the necessity of being simple and extremely scalable. Think of Amazon, they have so many product pages that they need to have their own search engine that serves up the best results for those products. Similarly, your eCommerce site should have a simple structure that is scalable and easily navigable. No page should take more than three clicks to get to from any other page.
Because of the conversion points that need to be reachable by search engines and users alike there should be consistency in the execution.
eCommerce Category and Product Pages
Category pages for an eCommerce website should use keywords to create highly relevant page URLs and subdirectories. They should also include things like:
While all these things are very common in every SEO campaign, there is a need to implement them differently on category and product pages for eCommerce sites. You should take extra care to include each of these actions on each and every product page/image as it helps search engines know what the products are.
With the basic(and free) Google tools that were mentioned above, you can get your eCommerce site ranking in no time! If you need any help with any particular step in this process then we here at Boostability would be happy to help.
