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eCommerce SEO

Mean more through better experiences.

Revenue is the measure that matters.

You can have a great product that nobody can find. You can have traffic that arrives, looks and leaves. The two problems look completely different in a report and cost you the same thing in the end.

We optimise for organic revenue rather than organic sessions. That distinction changes what we prioritise, which categories get attention first and what the monthly report leads with.

Our SEO specialists work alongside the developers who build Shopify and WooCommerce stores. Technical recommendations get implemented rather than added to a queue, which on a commerce site is usually the difference between a plan and a return.

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Why is eCommerce SEO important for your business?

Many online shoppers start with a search, whether for a specific product or for the best option in a category.

If your products don’t appear, those sales go to competitors and marketplaces, and you pay for every remaining customer through ads and commissions that eat into margin.

eCommerce SEO turns your catalogue into a steady source of sales with no media cost per order, so growth becomes more profitable.

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Technical eCommerce SEO.

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Make the whole catalogue visible.

A commerce site can run to thousands or tens of thousands of URLs. At that scale, crawl efficiency and internal linking decide which of your pages Google sees at all.

We review indexation, crawl efficiency, site speed, Core Web Vitals and platform-specific issues, then deliver a prioritised implementation plan focused on the changes that will earn the most.

Products also go out of stock, get discontinued and get replaced, so we manage the lifecycle of URLs and content as an ongoing job, keeping search equity with the products and categories that are still selling.

  • Audits
  • Crawl Efficiency
  • Site Speed
  • Core Web Vitals

Faceted Navigation.

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Send search engines to the pages that sell.

Variants, filters and faceted navigation generate near-identical pages at volume. Left alone, they split ranking signals across dozens of versions of the same page and use up crawl budget.

We decide which filter and variant combinations should be indexable, and handle the rest through canonicals, robots directives and parameter management, so search engines spend their time on the pages capable of earning revenue.

  • Filters
  • Variants
  • Canonicals
  • Crawl Budget

Category & Product Pages.

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Prioritise by commercial value.

Category pages and product pages serve different stages of the buying journey. Someone searching a category is still comparing, while someone searching a specific product has usually decided.

We optimise metadata, headings, on-page content and internal linking for each type of page, and work through the catalogue in order of commercial value. On a large catalogue, that order matters as much as the work itself.

  • Metadata
  • On-Page Content
  • Internal Linking
  • Intent Mapping

Product Schema.

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Give search the details shoppers compare.

We implement Product, Offer, review and availability structured data correctly, supporting rich results in search and eligibility for free merchant listings, so your products show the price, stock and ratings people look for before they click.

  • Product
  • Offer
  • Reviews
  • Availability
  • Merchant Listings

Category Growth & Content.

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Find the demand your catalogue doesn’t serve yet.

On an established store, the largest untapped revenue is often in searches your current category structure doesn’t serve. We find that demand, then recommend the new categories, collections and content needed to capture it.

Marketplaces and major retailers often have far more authority, so structure, specificity and useful content have to make up the difference.

Buying guides and comparison content capture people earlier in their research and link properly into the categories that convert. Our content and brand teams write it alongside the SEO team, so it sounds like your brand and helps people decide.

We also build relevant links and coverage through content-led outreach, focused on quality and relevance.

  • Keyword Research
  • New Categories
  • Buying Guides
  • Authority

eCommerce Platforms.

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Every platform has its own challenges.

Shopify SEO

Shopify fixes its URL conventions, so a product reached through a collection creates a second URL for the same page, and a large catalogue can end up with thousands of duplicates. Deep collections push products many pages back, where they’re rarely crawled, and every app adds scripts that slow the storefront down.

We resolve duplication through canonicals and internal linking, bring the right products onto shallow, crawlable pages, remove apps that aren’t earning their place and fix theme-level structured data and out-of-stock handling. Because we build on Shopify too, we can change the theme ourselves.

WooCommerce SEO

WooCommerce gives you more control and needs more maintenance in return. Attribute and filter URLs multiply quickly, plugins slow pages down, taxonomy is often set up for merchandising rather than search and schema varies with the plugin producing it.

We audit what each plugin contributes, simplify the URL structure and make the taxonomy work for navigation and search at the same time.

Magento and Adobe Commerce SEO

On large catalogues with layered navigation, the problems are usually in how the platform is configured to generate, index and link pages. We work at that level, where crawl management usually returns more than page-level optimisation.

BigCommerce, headless and custom platforms

The principles hold on any platform, and only the implementation changes. We can audit and optimise BigCommerce, headless and custom-built stores.

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  • Shopify
  • WooCommerce
  • Magento
  • Adobe Commerce
  • BigCommerce
  • Headless

Migrations & Replatforming.

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Protect revenue through every relaunch.

Migrations are where commerce sites lose the most organic revenue, and almost always through decisions made before launch.

We benchmark existing performance, map redirects against the pages that earn, review URL and content decisions while they’re still cheap to change, and monitor indexation and revenue closely through the weeks after go-live.

International eCommerce SEO.

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Make every market work together.

For brands selling across regions, we set up hreflang, market and currency structures and localised content, and make the technical decisions that determine whether each market’s pages support each other or compete.

  • Hreflang
  • Markets
  • Currencies
  • Localised Content

eCommerce SEO & AI Search.

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Be found by search engines and AI assistants.

Product research now often starts inside AI assistants and AI Overviews, where someone comparing options may never see a ranking.

AI assistants rely on structured product data, clear specifications, reviews and consistent brand information to understand what a product is, what it does and who it suits.

The work that makes a catalogue clear to an AI assistant is largely the work that makes it clear to a search engine. Accurate product schema, clean specifications and content that answers real questions serve both.

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Measurement.

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Report on what search earns.

Monthly reporting across Search Console and GA4 covers organic revenue, conversion rate, average order value and performance by category and product. Rankings, impressions and traffic are tracked too, as leading indicators.

Month-on-month and year-on-year comparisons make seasonality visible, and we work in Screaming Frog, Semrush, Search Console and GA4, so you can see the working behind every recommendation.

  • Organic Revenue
  • Conversion Rate
  • Average Order Value
  • GA4
  • Search Console

Find the products, fix the friction and grow revenue.

From technical foundations and faceted navigation to content, schema and platform fixes, everything is prioritised by what it will earn and implemented by the people who build commerce sites.

That keeps organic search growing as a revenue channel, season after season.

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Frequently asked questions

Which e-commerce platforms do you work with?

We work across leading e-commerce platforms, including Shopify, Shopify Plus and WooCommerce.

Each platform presents different SEO opportunities and technical considerations. Shopify SEO and Shopify Plus SEO can involve site architecture, collections, product pages, structured data and platform-specific technical issues. WooCommerce SEO brings its own considerations around WordPress, performance, plugins and site structure.

We recommend an approach based on your platform, catalogue, customers and commercial objectives. The technology matters, but the goal is the same: help more of the right customers discover your products and buy them.

How do you protect our rankings when we change platform?

An eCommerce SEO migration needs to be planned before you change platform. Otherwise, valuable rankings, traffic and revenue can be put at risk.

For a Shopify migration, for example, we assess existing URLs, rankings and organic landing pages, then plan the new site structure, redirects, metadata, internal links and technical requirements. We also check crawling and indexing before and after launch.

Our SEO and development specialists work together throughout the migration, helping protect existing organic performance while creating a stronger foundation for the new store.

What should happen to out-of-stock product pages?

The best approach to out-of-stock products for SEO depends on whether the product is temporarily unavailable or permanently discontinued.

If stock is expected to return, keeping the product page live can preserve its search visibility and give customers useful alternatives or a way to find out when it returns. If a product is permanently discontinued, the right action might be to redirect the page to a relevant alternative or category, depending on its value and search demand.

We assess each situation rather than automatically deleting pages and losing the SEO value they may have built.

How do our products show up in AI shopping results?

Visibility in ChatGPT shopping and other AI-powered shopping experiences depends on platforms being able to understand your products and access reliable information about them.

Strong product content, accurate pricing and availability, clear site architecture and structured data such as Product schema can all help machines interpret your catalogue. Existing search visibility and wider signals about your products and brand can also contribute to discoverability.

There’s no guaranteed route into AI shopping results. We combine eCommerce SEO with GEO principles to make product information as clear, useful and machine-readable as possible.

Can you make the changes, or just recommend them?

We can do both. Our eCommerce SEO specialists work alongside web developers, so recommendations don’t have to end with a technical audit and a list for somebody else to implement.

Depending on your website and scope, we can identify SEO opportunities, prioritise them and make agreed technical and on-page changes directly. Where your internal team or another development partner manages the platform, we can provide clear requirements and work with them on implementation.

Having SEO and development in the same team helps us move from finding a problem to actually fixing it.

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