24 October 2012

How To Go About Ecommerce SEO

By Brian Bennings


Ecommerce SEO is a strategy that is used by most online stores in order to attract traffic and therefore great profit margins. Pages on the websites have to be optimized in order to be found by various search engines as they browse through the wide world web. Optimization of ordinary websites may be easy especially if they do not have shopping carts. It is important to know how to optimize an eCommerce website in order to get results.

The difference between ordinary sites and e-commerce is that the latter have shopping carts on each page. All the pages have therefore to be optimized since all the products have to be sold. It is a simple task to manually optimize the pages if they are few. E-commerce have thousands of pages and optimizing them becomes a challenge for the engine. In addition the shopping carts are programmed by URL structures and parameters that are hard to read. Not all the pages indexed since the number is too bulky for the search engine.

With such challenges it is wise to know your way out in order to avoid unnecessary struggles. You may start off by finding shopping carts that have been designed by engine-friendly software. The directory structures should not contain the signs that are discussed here. The use of third-party plug-ins are used by e-commerce platforms to help the engines read the URL.

Another helpful tip is to make sure that each individual product page link back and forth to the categories links at the upper level of the page or homepage categories. This facilitates smooth indexing of the pages on the site.

The designer and programmer should ensure that the pages connect well right from the homepage to all other pages in the product categories. This enables the engine to theoretically start from the homepage all the way to specific pages. The programmer should be creative in designing in order to avoid possible complications. For instance the use of drop down search function does not simplify the process but makes it harder.

The specific pages optimization efficiency highly depends on the protocol employed. It should populate the portion pf the title and description tags too. A short product description should make a great title. You should maintain a static part in the title and ensure that all the titles share the message. This enhances the process of optimization.

Writing quality articles or product content is a great optimization strategy. The articles should be unique, keyword-rich and very relevant to the product. The right content attracts huge crowds towards your online store which increases the chances of your goods being purchased. The manufacturer instructions are probably used on each and every page so generating your own articles works best.

Ecommerce SEO is not an easy task. It is very costly in terms of money and time consumption. Some shopping carts require the expertise of a programmer. A dynamic set up for optimization increases traffic and makes your online store successful.




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