You are the greatest instructor and content developer ever! Thanks for all the amazing information that you share! Also, the architecture of information inside your videos is WONDERFUL and SUPER UNDERSTANDABLE! I wish I could leave more than one like! :))
Hi Sam, thanks for posting such a detailed guide to E-commerce SEO. I have an E-commerce site that’s in desperate need of some SEO but just didn’t know where to start. This video has helped me formulate a clear SEO plan and I am now planning a new E-commerce venture as well!
My god, I think i just spend 1 hour to watch a 20 mins video XD. Very helpful video OH, VERY HELPFUL. Even the comment section taught me something good LOL, you are a great content maker.
If the shop only carry 1 brand, does it still makes sense to write the brand name as H1 on every single product pages ? The storefront will show all products with the same brand name + model, which is kind of weird. What's your thoughts ?
How would I want to structure my shop, if I am selling only one type of product (art prints), but offer different variations and sizes of the prints? Should I create a category for each material (canvas, poster, etc.)? Or for different sizes???
This is a pretty loaded question and unfortunately can't give you a simple answer. A couple considerations would be the # of products / category, facets etc. If you don't have many products, keep it simple. Or use selector options (ie. change color) within your product pages. -Sam
Hi Sam. Thanks for the tutorial. However, I have a question about linkbuilding. Especially internal linking. I have an e-commerce project that I'm working on. However I have been building internal links to product pages by adding and hiding anchor text among product descriptions. I hide anchor texts by highlighting them in black so visitors won't notice until they mouse over them. Anytime I do this I see positive effects on traffic from the GSC. And I haven't seen brands like AMAZON doing that. I want to ask if it's a good practice? Because I just thought out of the box to implement such a strategy.
I don't know if you will read this personally but Sam you are amazing, the way you explain difficult things with a lot of simplicity, demonstrate a high professionalism from you and all the ahrefs team. I am a newbie in the seo world and I have a very big respect for you, this video was very instructive :)
Thank you for a kind feedback. Sam checks all of the comments, I am sure he will enjoy reading this one =) I just help to follow up with the comments, but definitely make sure Sam is aware of this one;) - Max
I’d suggest you talk out things with Edwinconsult __ on Instagram regarding improving your SEO, ranked higher on sales and google using their support..
Thanks Sam. I wanna know how can we know our Client's business more clearly like in video u mentioned that keyword "gabe pump heel shoes" had no search volume while other keyword "vince camuto pumps" had a decent search volume. but how do we know that we can also use this keyword which can be used in place of "gabe pump" as we have no idea what "vince camuto pump" means? should we ask client whether this keyword relates to ur business before optimizing his website for these keywords?
I am creating SILO structure , my is simple blog so do i need to index silo category in the yoast seo or not ? and do i need to optimize that SILO catagory or not ?
Hey Sam great video! For the parent categories should the goal first be to have easy to understand names to navigate the website rather than SEO. My categorisation isn't going to be straight forward as I am retailing a variety of products so I feel like explanation should be the priority for my parent category and SEO can fall into the sub-categories. Does this make sense? Also what should I do if the singular phrase word is way better on a collection page than the plural version?
Sam, you're my favorite! Thanks for such a great and thorough tutorial. Do you suggest finding additional categories that your current product inventory can fit into in order to have more pages ranking? Additionally, do you know of any major differences between bigcommerce and Shopify from an SEO perspective? We recently looked at organic traffic data from a client. The two years they were using bigcommerce there traffic was almost double of what it was when they moved to Shopify. And it's never fully recovered and appears to be going down each year. We're not sure if it was the platform or the content that made the biggest difference, or something else entirely.
It depends... I wouldn’t add products to a category that doesn’t sell or is tangential to your store for the purpose of ‘ranking.’ More traffic does not mean more sales, if you target "not so related" keywords. Do not have any insights on BigCommerce vs Shopify, but I doubt that the reason is in a platform itself.
@@AhrefsCom awesome, thanks for the reply. I've assumed keyword research would be part of choosing the categories to add. So, then you WOULD recommend adding new categories for products that do sell?
Hey Sam, thanks for this! What are your thoughts on keyword cannibalization when it comes to e-commerce? Especially niche websites that have lots of similar products in a single collection. How would you approach this and also do content marketing?
Hey Josh. It happens a lot in ecommerce and I think there are occasionally exceptions. For example, branded queries tend to get cannibalized often (ie. Zappos shoes). Search intent is clear that someone wants to look through Zappo's catalogue for shoes, and thus, Google may rank /shoes/ /womens-shoes/ /mens-shoes/ etc. I recommend watching this part here where I talk about the above example using position history: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dJr_4bcALIM.htmlm24s
As someone new to SEO this is very informative and got me curious. How does ecommerce seo differ from paid search? Are there any difference at all? Thanks.
However, the truth is many websites do not promote e-commerce website for free, there are always affiliate programs going on. It is so much easier to just use affiliate websites than doing all these analysis and reach out but hear nothing back...
Hi Sam, apply what you say in your video to finish the web address with /sitemap.xml to the competition page and return "This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below."
You need to create a sitemap before you can access it at that URL. If you are doing it on a competitor/client's website, they may not have a sitemap or have it on another URL. In general, most websites will have it at sitemap.xml, but not all websites have the XML file there.
@UCWquNQV8Y0_defMKnGKrFOQ Hi Mr. When loading an image of a product that is sold by other 20 online stores... Is it advisable to add your short text for your shops name at the end on the prduct/image name so that the clients can see your shops name when they google for images which will in turn direct them to your site? Or a clean product name is enough for saving a product image ?
I do not think I have a good answer for this. I guess some sort of watermark will help to protect your images from copying as well as help people with some brand awareness. - Max
@@AhrefsCom We are all using the same exact pictures as middlemen; myself included... It is advisable to save the image with it's item description + ones business name or shop at the end ?
Ahrefs means that’s okay? because I use Ahrefs to audit my store and it keep showing my title is too long because of Shop Name. Looking for for this reply. Thanks!
Great video as always , I recently started using ahrefs to try fix some issues My I ask , What if a shop had 50 or 100 product but had to be listed and photographed separately cause of unique wood grain , how should product title,url and description should be approached ? Would the sku code on the title url and description should be enough to avoid dublicate contend issues ? And on the other hand what if a particular product page ranks high and or has links then the product is sold ? By deleting it dont we lose traffic ? A way around is i can think is instead of product/c30ol75.com is product/N1-N100 in which after the product is sold we can replace photos and product description without touching the url ? Would ranks remain ?
Antonis, I wonder why you want to have a separate page for each finish of the same product. Having some sort of a dropdown or any other type of selector for product finish within one page makes much more sense to me. In this case you avoid duplicate content, as well as make it easier to improve backlink profile for a given product, if you want to rank it. If you delete a product page that ranks well for high-volume keywords, I would not delete it but put it "out of stock" with some similar suggestions being published on that page. So you will keep that traffic and possibilities to get some conversions. Alternatively, you can delete the page but still create a 301 redirect to a relevant product. With your last sample, you will keep the backlinks in place without redirects, but I do not recommend doing that. Your page was about topic A and now about topic B. You ranked for keywords A and now all of the content is about B. People linked to topic A, while now it represents topic B. Too much confusion and fishing is around. I doubt there will be positive results in rankings if you do so. These are just personal thoughts, so do not take it a pure gold ;) - Max
@@AhrefsCom Hello again , thanks for you response I am not talking about finish it is a completly different unique product made by the same species of wood but differentiate alot , a drop-down wouldnt work because you would had to browse between 100 photos , in the same time by reusing the url (lets imagine url as a as a nail on the wall where you can hang a wall clock ) in this particular situation keyword A will be exchactly the same as keyword B . Its kind of hard to explain but i could sent you or post a link to clarify what i mean .
Dude, if u are so smart with this seo ecommerce thing, then why the fuck u don't build your damn website and make millions of dolars like amazon and so on :)))
