Guide
E-commerce SEO: the complete guide for online stores
How to rank the pages that make money: category strategy, product schema, crawl budget and buying-intent content, measured in revenue not sessions.
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SEO for online stores that sells more products
We rank the pages that sell, not the ones that only bring traffic.
What is e-commerce SEO?
E-commerce SEO is the work of getting category and product pages to rank for the terms people use when they are ready to buy. It covers keyword mapping to collections, product schema, faceted navigation control, internal linking, page speed and content that answers buying questions before the cart.
Who this is for
If none of these sound like you, e-commerce SEO is probably not where your money should go first. Tell us what is happening and we will say so.
- Shopify and WooCommerce stores stuck on branded search only
- Stores where paid ads are profitable but organic brings almost nothing
- Catalogues large enough that Google indexes a fraction of the products
- Stores that migrated platform and lost rankings overnight
Scope
What is included
Every engagement covers all of this. Nothing here is an upsell once you have started.
Keyword to collection mapping
Every commercial term gets one page that owns it. No two collections fighting for the same search.
Category page content
Real copy above and below the grid that helps a buyer choose, written to rank.
Product schema
Product, Offer, AggregateRating and Review markup so your listings earn rich results.
Faceted navigation control
Filters that create thousands of near-duplicate URLs get handled with canonicals and crawl rules.
Speed work
Theme, app and image audit. Most stores lose a second or more to apps nobody uses any more.
Buying-intent content
Comparison, sizing and how-to-choose pages that link straight into the collections.
How it works
E-commerce SEO inside the Rapid Rank Method
The same four steps we use on every engagement, applied to this service.
Audit
We crawl the catalogue, map current rankings to revenue and find the indexing gaps.
Plan
We map every commercial keyword to one page and plan the missing collections.
Build
We ship the copy, schema, crawl rules and speed fixes.
Report
We report organic revenue and assisted revenue, not just sessions.
What it costs
Monthly plans, priced by catalogue size.
Full pricing for every service sits on one pricing page. No sales call needed to see a number.
Proof
Needs real data before launch
Three case studies, one per ICP, with before and after numbers you can prove and screenshots you have permission to publish.
The build throws if a published case study has an empty results array. See lib/content.ts. (PRD 16.1, PRD 9)
Learn
Want to understand it first?
These guides cover the same ground in detail. Read them before you spend anything.
Guide
The technical SEO checklist we run on every site
The exact technical checks we work through on a client audit, in order of how much traffic each one usually costs. Indexing, speed, structure, schema and logs.
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E-commerce SEO: questions we get asked
Should I optimise category pages or product pages first?
Category pages. They target the higher-volume buying terms and they survive products going out of stock. Products come second, starting with your best sellers.
What do I do with out of stock products?
Keep the URL live if the product is coming back, and show alternatives. If it is gone for good, redirect to the closest product or the parent category. Never let it 404 silently.
Does Shopify have SEO limits?
A few. The forced /collections/ and /products/ URL structure and limited control over robots.txt are the main ones. None of them stop a store ranking, and we work inside them every week.
Can you fix a migration that lost traffic?
Usually. It is almost always broken redirects, changed URL patterns or lost internal links. We map the old URLs against the new ones and recover what we can.
Do you write product descriptions?
Yes, for priority products. Bulk descriptions for a 5,000 item catalogue are rarely worth the cost, so we prioritise by revenue and search volume.
How do you measure results for a store?
Organic revenue first, then organic sessions to commercial pages, then rankings. Traffic that does not convert is not a result.
Ready to talk about e-commerce SEO?
Send us your website and we will tell you whether this is the right place to start. If it is not, we will say what is.