When you have an online Store, you know that it's extremely important to drive people to your website. However, you might find yourself struggling to rank in searches, or to get the desired amount of traffic. Ecommerce SEO from WebpageFX can help you by:
- Driving relevant, highly targeted traffic to your online store from search engines
- Identifying the words and phrases that shoppers are using to find your store, and optimizing your website for them
- Analyzing your store's funnel to find gaps in the sales and shopping cart process, and resolving them to boost conversions
In this digital era, word of mouth or Internet advertising isn't enough. You need to do more to be successful online. That's where SEO and ecommerce marketing come into play. Ecommerce search engine marketing makes it easy for potential customers to find you at any time.
Ecommerce SEO services, like those offered by WebpageFX, are the best way to boost your store's ranking in search results, bring more traffic to your site, and boost your conversion rate. As a leading Ecommerce Seo company, we know what goes into making the best stores visible and easily accessible in search engines. By optimizing your ecommerce store, you'll be seen by as many people as possible.
When you do general advertising, you're attempting to get as many people to your site as possible. However, simply advertising your site and hoping that people buy from you isn't enough. Many of the sales that take place online happen because someone is looking for a very specific service or product. By optimizing your ecommerce website, you're more likely to show up in these search results—and bring in more targeted traffic.
Refer to our ecommerce SEO pricing plans below to find out how we can help you attract more people to your online store from searches.
How does WebpageFX pick ecommerce SEO pricing?
The cost of ecommerce SEO plans from WebpageFX are based on our experience with more than 500 clients, many of whom sell online. Based on our award-winning search engine optimization plans, our ecommerce SEO packages include extra services and necessary tasks that will help optimize your online store for the highest ranking possible in searches.
Our ecommerce SEO packages are designed to be comprehensive, providing you with everything you need to determine relevant keywords, implement them on your website, analyze and resolve issues with the checkout process, create quality content, and rank as highly as possible in searches for your products or store. Each pricing tier contains different options based on the size and needs of your ecommerce store. We are also able to customize your package with different ecommerce SEO services, or create a completely custom package for very large online stores that wish to target more keywords than our largest plan allows.
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Why does ecommerce need SEO?
Search engine optimization has several purposes for most websites, but it's arguably more important for ecommerce than for any other industry. This is because ecommerce customers typically are ready to buy, when they're making a search, as opposed to simply doing research or browsing for fun. Your potential customers are ready to hand over their hard-earned cash—but without SEO, they may never even know your store exists. SEO for ecommerce makes sure your store is visible so you can maximize your profits.
SEO is the online equivalent of placing a huge sign in front of a brick-and-mortar storefront that says "we carry dog toys!" or "we sell cat supplies!" Without optimizing your website for these key phrases, your chance at showing up in searches for keywords with high buying intent is slim to none. And because you probably sell a lot of products, you have a lot of products to optimize your site for—and a lot of keyword variations to target.
By ignoring SEO, you risk not being visible during the consumer buying process. Lack of visibility in search results means that fewer customers will know about you, you will sell fewer products, and your growth will be stunted. Improving your rankings in organic search results can lead to massive increases in online traffic and revenue.
SEO is also cost-effective. Highly competitive industries can spend large amounts of money on paid website traffic. But effective SEO makes you less dependent on this traffic. You can still choose to purchase ads, but if your budget is tight, SEO is a great way to generate large volumes of qualified traffic and sales without paying for it directly.
Additionally, without SEO, your competitors are highly likely to beat you out in search. Even if you create an amazing website with a beautiful design that naturally attracts hundreds of links, a competitor with solid SEO and a good idea of which keywords to target will outrank you almost every time, in every search. It's not enough to have part of the package. With competition as high as it is online, you need the complete package. And with an ecommerce SEO plan from WebpageFX, that's exactly what you'll get.
Keep reading to learn more about our ecommerce SEO process, and how we approach the task of optimizing an online store for our customers.
What's WebpageFX's SEO process for ecommerce?
Ecommerce SEO is a multi-faceted process. When you start selling online, you want to be sure that you are directing the right type of customers to your site. You can accomplish this by making sure that you have the right kind of content that contains the right keywords.
Search engines rely on matching the words that people are searching for to the words that are found on your website, meaning SEO for an ecommerce website includes informative, descriptive text. If you have the words on your site that shoppers will be typing into a search engine, you stand a better chance at being found. However, it can be difficult to figure out which words to add to your site, and secondly, how to make sure that you have room for all of the different phrases you need. To start the ecommerce search engine optimization process, you should first know what keywords or phrases you want to target.
Here's how we start our ecommerce SEO process for our customers, and what you can expect when you work with us.
1. Keyword identification
Before making any changes to your website, we first do research to identify the words and phrases you need to include in your content. These are often called keywords or keyphrases. By researching online using free tools, asking your customers how they describe your products, or working with you to find the keywords you already know are successful, we'll find out how you should be describing your store or products to rank highly in searches.
Keywords most often pertain to your products or their central theme. For example, if your ecommerce store sells dog supplies, you would expect to show up in a search for "dog supplies." So when you develop content for your website, this phrase should be included. This is a critical ecommerce SEO service to establishing an effective strategy for your business.
2. Keyword implementation
The next step in our process is to implement the keywords we've found to be most relevant to your website. These keywords will likely be implemented in a number of places, including in your store's homepage, page titles, meta descriptions, product descriptions, and so on. This step is essential to e commerce SEO, ensuring you show up in search results when potential customers need your services.
You can do your own copywriting to implement these recommended keywords, or WebpageFX can help you with some of it. Some copywriting is included as part of our ecommerce SEO pricing, which you can see above.
3. Product page optimization
Every page on your website should be optimized for search engines. When it comes to ecommerce stores, it's hard to find anything more important to optimize than product pages. Product pages are extremely important because they are most likely to rank for very specific search phrases, also known as "long-tail keywords." If someone searches for "green rubber dog bone," you're probably not going to have this long-tail keyword on your homepage — but it will appear on the product page for this item.
To ensure that your product pages are best optimized for high rankings, we'll make sure that each page has a title, as well as a paragraph or two of keyword-rich copy that describes the item. It may also be a good idea to include the model number (if there is one) so you show up in searches for that, too.
Your product pages should also include images of the items you are selling. Although images themselves have little impact on SEO, including alt text that describes each image is another way that you can get keywords on a page.
We'll review each page of your website in-depth to ensure that you're targeting long-tail keywords, that your images are optimized with alt text, and that you're not missing crucial SEO elements like title tags.
4. Navigation optimization
Ecommerce SEO includes making your site user-friendly. Your website should be easy for users to navigate, even if you carry a wide variety of products. We'll make sure that everything is sorted into sections or categories, and that there is a link to each top level page from somewhere in your menu.
Your navigation needs to be easy to use and understand. If it's not, you may find that users are getting confused and leaving your site almost as soon as they arrive. Why stay if they can't find what they want? This quick departure, also called a "bounce," can lead to a higher bounce rate. High bounce rates tell search engines that your website is not as relevant as you claim for specific terms or keywords, and can lead to your ranking dropping. So avoid confusing your visitors at all costs!
One of the best ways we've found to improve SEO for ecommerce is to use breadcrumb navigation. Breadcrumbs are small links that appear at the top of menu, category, or product pages. Like the story of Hansel and Gretel, a trail of breadcrumbs on a website leads you back where you were previously. We'll use this method to add links and keywords to your pages and give your users a chance to find their way when they are lost.
5. Content production
Since it's difficult to compete online, one of the best ways you can both add SEO value and draw in shoppers is to add some original content to your ecommerce store. Content can come in the form of a blog, articles, press releases, and even whitepapers or ebooks. A content marketing strategy serves two purposes: one, to give search engines even more content to crawl for keywords and phrases, and two, to tell your potential customers that you are knowledgeable and trustworthy. Establishing yourself in these ways is a bonus to both your ecommerce search engine optimization and customer assurance.
Most ecommerce websites choose to set up a blog for this purpose. Blogs come in many shapes and sizes, and can have one post a month or multiple posts a day. For your online store, you may find it easiest to focus on one or two posts a week. You can write about anything your customers might find relevant, like trends in your industry or new products. If you sell pet supplies, you could even post photos of cute animals or run a "cutest pet" contest.
Additional content may take the form of press releases about important company events, articles about industry topics you are knowledgeable about, or even long-form content like an ebook. As long as this content contains a few keywords (or even links to your site), it will be seen as relevant and may help your rankings.
As you can see above, WebpageFX includes quarterly content as part of your ecommerce SEO plan. What form this content takes is up to you, and we'll work together to decide what kind of content is best for your website, then create it for you and implement it on your site. SEO for ecommerce sites includes all of these factors and more to make your website rank as highly as possible.
Ready to Make Your Store More Visible Online?
Your online store shouldn't be stuck on page 2 (or worse). With help from one of the nation's leading SEO agencies, you can experience the power of being on page 1, and having an ecommerce website that ranks well, attracts as many customers as possible, and converts more clicks into purchases. With WebpageFX, SEO and ecommerce marketing go hand in hand.
Contact WebpageFX today to find out how a custom ecommerce SEO plan can make your store more visible and turn more of your visitors into real, paying customers. We'll work with you to create a plan completely customized to your unique needs. Just pick up the phone or use our convenient contact form to get in touch with one of our ecommerce experts to let us know!
Ready to work with a leading provider of ecommerce SEO services? Call 8149842202 or contact us online to find out how WebpageFX can help you grow your online store with search engine optimization.
