eCommerce keyword research
Finding the right keywords for your online business is essential for SEO success. Fortunately, our eCommerce SEO specialists can help.
Keyword research for eCommerce businesses differs because you’ll need to consider buyer intent.
For example, if you’re an online clothing retailer, targeting ‘buy blue jeans’ will be more beneficial than targeting ‘blue jeans’. Why? The former indicates that the user is ready to buy, therefore, when they land on your site, they’re more likely to convert. These types of keywords are commonly referred to as transactional keywords and are used to optimise product pages and/or lead generation landing pages.
We also target commercial keywords as part of our eCommerce SEO campaigns. These keywords reveal a consumers’ intention to buy at some point in the future, for example, ‘windows laptop vs macbook’. Targeting people that are searching for these terms will help you to get your brand in front of consumers in the consideration phase and encourage them to try your products and services.
Optimising for an eCommerce website
Our team will carry out extensive keyword research to ensure that you’re targeting the right keywords for your niche, whilst increasing your chances of securing conversions. But a successful eCommerce SEO strategy focuses on a lot more than content.
When it comes to optimising eCommerce websites, you’ll need to analyse factors such as:
- Your website’s technical health e.g. speed, mobile responsiveness, crawlability
- The relevance of the links pointing to your website e.g. how closely they match your products or services
- Conversion rate i.e. is your traffic converting well?
- Bounce rate i.e. can users find what they’re looking for on your product and services pages?
We’ll then put all of this information into an eCommerce SEO report that clearly outlines where you can improve, how much work will be involved and how our eCommerce SEO services will help
Work with us The technical health of your website will directly impact your SEO. As such, an in-depth technical audit should be included in any SEO strategy. It can help to spot any technical issues that could be preventing your eCommerce site from ranking well. The purpose of the technical audit is to ensure that Google bots can effectively crawl and index the pages on your website.
We run a meticulous technical audit to quickly identify and resolve any technical issues you may have. The CandidSky team is well-versed in the world of technical SEO, so you know your site will be in safe hands.
When it comes to eCommerce sites, some of the most common technical issues include:
- Poorly implemented structured data (or lack thereof)
- Slow website speed
- Lack of mobile responsiveness
- Lack of optimised category and product page URLs
If we encounter any or all of the above problems when auditing your site, our technical SEO experts will implement the fixes as soon as possible so you can start reaping the rewards.
Work with us Link building for eCommerce websites
Your website’s backlink profile could be hindering its ability to rank competitively. Fortunately, our eCommerce SEO experts can take an in-depth look at your site’s backlink profile to see how it could be improved.
We’ll start by conducting a link acquisition audit to spot any bad links pointing to your site, and we’ll also analyse your competitor’s backlinks to find new opportunities.
Once we have this information, we can work on a link acquisition strategy that will help you to secure authoritative, relevant links and boost traffic to your eCommerce site.
Forecasting and reporting
SEO forecasting involves conducting in-depth data analysis to identify which keywords, products and services will increase or decrease in popularity in future. For example in the eCommerce sector, seasonality has a noticeable impact on organic traffic throughout the year. As a result, SEO forecasting will help you to maximise conversions by boosting your search engine rankings at key points throughout the year and ensuring your marketing efforts don’t go to waste.
Our eCommerce SEO experts will look at your historical website data, as well as accommodate external factors to ensure your SEO forecast is as accurate as possible.
We report the results of our SEO efforts on a monthly basis so you’re always kept in the loop. We’ll highlight the impact your SEO strategy has had on conversions, organic traffic and organic revenue and identify where improvements can be made in future.
Work with us