E-Commerce SEO

E-commerce is a special category of SEO, in part because Google treats queries that involve selling or financial transactions with extra care, and also because these can be extremely competitive verticals.

E-commerce SEO also faces unique challenges due to product catalogs, out-of-stock items, site architecture, trust issues and more. You not only need a solid baseline SEO strategy, you typically need to excel in all of these other areas as well. Here, we've included some of our top resources on E-commerce SEO, as well as the latest blog posts on the subject below.

How to Craft the Best Damn E-commerce Page on the Web : E-commerce pages are a dime a dozen, but if you want to stand out, Rand Fishkin shows you how to win your category.

Pruning Your eCommerce Site: How & Why : In a very tactical post, learn why bloat in your e-commerce store is your biggest enemy to ranking higher, and learn how to clean the cruft.

Easy Marketing Investments to Improve Your E-Commerce Store : Even before working on organic traffic, it's important to put your best foot forward with your online storefront.

How to Do a Content Audit : For e-commerce stores, content audits are essential to SEO success.

Most Recent Articles on E-Commerce SEO

4 Common Mistakes E-commerce Websites Make Using JavaScript
Justyna Jarosz

4 Common Mistakes E-commerce Websites Make Using JavaScript

By leaving JavaScript unoptimized, you risk your content not getting crawled and indexed by Google. And in the e-commerce industry, that translates to losing significant revenue, because products are impossible to find via search engines. In this article, Justyna demonstrates how to avoid some of the most common mistakes e-commerce sites make when implementing JavaScript.

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My 8 Best Local SEO Tips for the 2020 Holidays
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My 8 Best Local SEO Tips for the 2020 Holidays

Whatever your business can offer to support local shoppers’ aspirations for a safe, comfortable, happy holiday season at home is commendable at the end of a very challenging 2020. Local SEO expert Miriam Ellis shares eight local search marketing tips will help you make good connections that serve your customers — and your business — well into the new year.