Shopify SEO Services
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We provide a complete package of on-page, off-page, and technical SEO for Shopify websites to help you rank better in search results.
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With more than 18 years of experience, you can trust we understand how to properly manage your Shopify search engine optimization.
When managing a Shopify SEO campaign, we will go over technical, on-page, and off-page search engine optimization factors. These three types of SEO services will help improve your ecommerce platform, website content, and backlink health, respectively.
Any quality Shopify SEO service will always include technical, on-page, and off-page optimization.
Our Managed Shopify SEO Services & Pricing
When discussing search engine optimization, any improvement made to your Shopify storefront with the intention of increasing search ranking will fit within one of three categories: technical, on-page, or off-page. These are industry-recognized categories of search engine optimization, so it is valuable to understand each of them to better understand what your Shopify SEO team is working on.
Technical Shopify SEO Services
Most technical SEO improvements in Shopify require the assistance of an ecommerce developer familiar with the Shopify platform.
Here are some common aspects of technical SEO services for Shopify:
- Improving page speed to help you pass Google's Core Web Vitals.
- Fixing issues with ecommerce security, such as mixed content.
- Fixing coverage issues reported in Google Search Console.
- Improving the usability of your website on mobile and tablet devices.
- Implementing additional structured data so search engines better understand the content on your product pages and content pages.
- Improving Open Graph tags to help improve the appearance of your website and product pages in social media.
- Fixing issues reported by SEO audits or other ecommerce SEO scanning tools.
As a full-service digital agency specializing in Shopify, we have our own in-house team of ecommerce developers and digital marketers who work together to complete any necessary technical SEO improvements to your Shopify ecommerce website.
On-Page Shopify SEO Services
Most on-page SEO improvements in Shopify require the assistance of SEO content writers. While having a passion for content writing is helpful, much more is required to writing beneficial web copy and product descriptions. For instance, when building out effective product descriptions or website content you must understand the concepts of content silos, latent semantic indexing, keyword research, gap analysis, competitive metrics, and much more!
Here are some common aspects of on-page Shopify SEO services:
- Implementing SEO content silos to create highly relevant sections within your ecommerce website.
- Writing unique content for category, product, and landing pages that hasn't been spun through AI tools.
- Building out supporting content around your parent topics to establish authority.
- Performing keyword research to understand what you should be writing about.
- Adding a blog to your ecommerce store to help organize supporting content.
- Reviewing keyword frequency and latent semantic indexing.
- Optimizing the product and category URLs to be SEO-friendly.
- Planning out frequently asked questions to add into structured data snippets.
- Implementing an internal linking structure to prevent orphaned pages.
- Adding original images to the page content to break up text and provide value.
- Implementing outbound links to authority websites that support your content or opinions.
- Going through Google Search Console to understand the queries bringing in traffic.
- Improving the readability of your content through better typography or chunking it out.
- Working on call to actions and other conversion-related improvements to reduce bounces.
- Prioritizing helpful page content above the fold of the website on mobile.
- Improving page titles, meta descriptions, alt tags, and heading tags.
As you can see from those examples, the process of on-page search engine optimization for Shopify is more involved than writing a few paragraphs and tweaking some meta descriptions. You must approach on-page Shopify SEO in an organized manner.
For instance, the on-page optimization process we follow starts with a thorough review of your Shopify store to determine your starting point. From there, we compare your ecommerce website to other competitors to better understand what gaps you have in content writing and search rankings. This allows us to assemble a list of suggestions based on what will provide the fastest return on investment.
You really must pay attention to the return on investment when working through on-page Shopify search engine optimization. For instance, writing quality meta descriptions is often an overvalued service within on-page Shopify SEO. We often work on Shopify SEO projects with hundreds of categories and thousands of product pages. It simply isn't economical to write a high-quality meta description for thousands of store pages because you'd be looking at potentially spending hundreds of hours of billable time that would never see an appropriate return on investment. When managing your Shopify SEO services, we'll keep the concept of ROI in mind and provide suggestions that will benefit your bottom line.
Off-Page Shopify SEO Tactics
The most overlooked aspects of search engine optimization for Shopify stores are off-page ranking factors. When discussing off-page SEO for Shopify, we are referring to how your ecommerce store is perceived by search engines based on the quality of your backlink profile.
Your backlink profile is simply the collection of websites and web pages that link back to your Shopify ecommerce website. It is important to always maintain a healthy backlink profile for your Shopify store. You can work toward a healthy backlink profile by keeping the following link building concepts in mind:
- Build backlinks from relevant websites within your ecommerce niche.
- Focus on slowly building your backlink profile over months and years.
- Stay away from spam websites and low-quality PBNs as backlink opportunities.
- Maintain more backlinks with anchor texts of your business name or URL versus focus keywords.
- Try to build more low-authority backlinks than medium or high-authority backlinks.
To build out a backlink profile for your Shopify ecommerce website, you will want to choose white-hat SEO services that don't violate Google's terms of service. Here are some great ways to go about white-hat link building in a Shopify store:
- Create an account with HARO and respond to questions related to your ecommerce industry. This is often referred to as reporter outreach or HARO outreach.
- Reach out to blog authors in your niche to ask about guest posting opportunities. This is often referred to as guest post outreach.
- Take an active interest in promoting your Shopify business in social media campaigns. This is often referred to as social media management, which creates social citations.
- Write longform blog articles that provide expert advice on your products. This is often referred to as the skyscraper method to creating a bigger, better article.
- Add your Shopify business to any relevant directories you can find online. This is commonly referred to as NAP citations, citation building or citation management.
If you are interested in being more aggressive with your link building, you can choose grey-hat to black-hat link building schemes which carry much more risk, even when implemented with caution. These include the following link building methods:
- Paying for guest posts or niche edits on third-party websites.
- Purchasing backlinks from PBNs, which are known as Private Blog Networks.
Most off-page Shopify SEO improvements require the assistance of highly skilled link builders and relationship managers.
A Few of Our Shopify SEO Experts
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The Types of Shopify SEO Campaigns We Manage
When we get hired to perform technical, on-page, and off-page search engine optimization on Shopify storefronts it is often by local businesses running small ecommerce stores, or large corporations running enterprise ecommerce storefronts. Let's discuss how we help each of these types of ecommerce businesses improve their Shopify search rankings.
Enterprise Shopify SEO Services
While less common than small business Shopify SEO, we are often approached to handle enterprise-level SEO campaigns for ecommerce storefronts. This is simply a search engine optimization service for a Shopify website with hundreds of highly-competitive target keywords, or thousands of product pages that need to be managed, or extremely complex and expensive link building requirements.
A perfect example of an enterprise-level Shopify SEO campaign would be our own website, if it were built in Shopify. We maintain a website with more than 10,000 web pages targeting incredibly competitive keywords with an extensive white-hat focused backlink profile building. This type of complexity takes months to years of effort, so don't look at an enterprise Shopify SEO campaign as something you turn on and off every few months as budgets or priorities shift.
There are some key differences to handling enterprise Shopify SEO campaigns. For instance, enterprise SEO for Shopify typically involves these services:
- Targeting hundreds of highly competitive search phrases.
- Maintaining thousands of category or product pages in a complex website.
- Developing dynamic functionality to help improve ecommerce SEO.
- Managing extensive link building campaign budgets.
The average cost for enterprise SEO campaigns can range from $4,000 to $8,000 each month, based on the competitiveness of your industry, the depth of development work we'll be handling, and the extent of your link building requirements. For enterprises with highly aggressive link building requirements, it wouldn't be abnormal to see a monthly quote in the $10,000 to $20,000 range.
Shopify SEO Services for Small Businesses
We are often tasked with helping Shopify ecommerce businesses increase their online sales by helping them show up higher in search results. We typically must go up against broad competitors such as Amazon, eBay, and Etsy when performing ecommerce SEO in Shopify, not to mention the major online stores within specific industries.
As previously mentioned, it is critical to keep ROI in mind while managing a search engine optimization campaign. If you have thousands of Shopify products, it simply doesn't make sense to have our SEO team be paid to improve product descriptions, meta descriptions, page titles and other on-site factors on every single page. You would never see a return on investment if you paid us for that work. We can provide you basic training so your own internal or external staff can perform those Shopify SEO services for you.
To start a Shopify SEO campaign, we'd go through all of our previously mentioned technical, on-page, and off-page SEO services. This includes ecommerce SEO services such as:
- Building out ecommerce silos to provide better relevancy.
- Guiding you toward improving product and category descriptions.
- Breaking up category content to be above and below the Shopify product output.
- Improving product structured data and open graph tags.
- Adjusting product page layouts to include trust factors and social proof.
- Fixing Shopify page speed and usability issues to reduce bounce rates.
- Improving user experience within the Shopify page layouts.
The average cost for Shopify SEO campaigns can range from $1,200 to $4,000 each month. This is based on the estimated competition, workload, product data, and backlink requirements for your Shopify website. The cost can increase if you have higher expectations or have a more aggressive link building plan.
How We Develop Your Shopify SEO Plan
To develop a professional Shopify SEO campaign for your ecommerce website we need to start with an in-depth review of your storefront, backlink profile, and competitors. This will help us understand the strengths and weaknesses of your store, which is critical to planning and prioritizing the next steps.
From there, we'll discuss with you our findings from the initial Shopify SEO audit and ask if you have any special requests. This type of collaboration is important because we want you to have the opportunity to ask questions and voice your opinion.
As we make progress on the Shopify SEO plan, we'll let you know of important milestones such as tasks that were completed or improvements in your rankings. This will allow you to follow along with the progress. When we get through all our one-off Shopify SEO improvements, we'll put together a new list and run it by you for approval. In the meantime, we'd be continuing with any recurring Shopify SEO services like content development and link building.
This process essentially repeats indefinitely, since there is almost always new content that can and should be added to your Shopify store, there are always new opportunities for improving your backlink profile, and there will always be competitors looking to take your position in search engine results pages (SERPs).
How We Measure Shopify SEO Results
Please understand it is not a good idea to expect or anticipate drastic improvement to your Shopify search rankings within the first few months of an ecommerce SEO service. Instead, you should view a Shopify SEO service as a long-term investment.
We are not a cheap Shopify SEO service. If you are looking for someone to provide guarantees of #1 Shopify search placements, which Google tells you not to trust, then look elsewhere. We are a professional Shopify SEO service and are only interested in onboarding and helping those ecommerce businesses who understand results take time.
If you've been struggling to get the Shopify search rankings you need, it isn't because a special switch hasn't been flipped yet. Google has reviewed your entire website presence, your category / product pages, your backlink profile, and your website's history to determine where you should be placed in search results. The problem is they simply haven't been given what they need to value your Shopify store as a first-page search result.
It is important to know how to gauge success in the early stages of Shopify SEO. You shouldn't be looking at Google Analytics to see traffic improvements in the first few months of an SEO service for your Shopify website. The best indicator for early success in a Shopify SEO campaign is looking for changes in the Search Engine Results Pages, or SERPs.
We'll start by working to get your Shopify store into the top 100 results, or from page 8 to page 4, or possibly from page 2 to page 1. You won't find measurable traffic improvements in Google Analytics until you get into the first page of search results for your ecommerce keywords.
That said, we do encounter early success in some Shopify SEO projects and are able to get traffic improvements in the first couple of months. However, this shouldn't be expected and if it happens you should instead view it as good fortune.
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Why We Adjust Shopify SEO Strategies & Tactics
Most Shopify SEO experts frequently change their strategies and tactics based on what they are seeing in SERPs. This isn't a sign that your Shopify SEO agency doesn't know what they are doing. In fact, Google frequently changes their ranking algorithms to provide better quality results and counteract trending ecommerce SEO strategies.
You should view changes in Shopify SEO tactics, or the game plan, as a sign that your search team is proactive in managing your campaign. We often read case studies and forum topics to discover new Shopify SEO tactics, but we also test new ideas out ourselves that we are curious about.
Alternatively, sometimes a shift in the Shopify SEO strategy is needed to simply try a new approach. If we've been working on getting a particular search phrase ranked and we haven't been successful, it might be time to start over or move onto a different keyword. Rather than continuing down a path that isn't providing your Shopify business a good SEO ROI, we'll communicate our findings and adjust as necessary.
Throughout the entire Shopify SEO service, you should feel like you're a valued member of the search ranking effort.
Shopify SEO FAQs
Is Shopify Good For SEO?
Shopify SEO services typically focus on search engine optimization for Shopify websites, which may include SEO services specific to the Shopify platform. Despite the fact that a Shopify store offers some useful SEO features such as a blog and the ability to create 301 redirects, it can also introduce issues such as duplicate content that could affect rankings. The following are some of the most common Shopify SEO recommendations:
- Remove duplicate URLs from the internal linking structure
- Remove duplicate pagination URLs.
- Create blog content based on keywords with informational intent
- Add structured data for "Product," "Article," and "BreadcrumbList"
- Determine how to handle variant product pages
- Optimize and compress images
- Remove all unnecessary Shopify apps
Does Shopify Include an XML Sitemap?
Shopify automatically generates a sitemap.xml index file at the URL path "domain.com/sitemap.xml". Accordingly, Shopify's sitemap.xml index file will automatically link to child sitemaps containing URLs of the following page types:
- Product Pages (sitemap_products_1.xml)
- Collection Pages (sitemap_collections_1.xml)
- Blog Posts (sitemap_blogs_1.xml)
- Marketing Pages (sitemap_pages_1.xml)
The sitemap.xml file will be dynamically updated as new pages are added or removed from the site. In general, the Shopify sitemap.xml is ready to use out of the box and does not require any modifications.
It is important to be aware that Shopify will include any published pages in the sitemap.xml file. The major problem we see is the inclusion of pages that are published but no longer linked to on the site in the sitemap.xml file. The purpose of crawling your sitemap.xml is to identify instances of published pages that are included in the sitemap but are not important for search engines to crawl.
Can I Create 301 Redirects in Shopify?
The Shopify platform allows you to use redirects out-of-the-box, which is terrific. It can be used to consolidate old/expired pages or any other content that no longer exists. You may do so by visiting the following location in the Shopify admin area:
- Online Store
- Navigation
- URL Redirects
It is important to remember that you will need to delete a page before you can implement a redirect on Shopify. As a result, you must be certain that you will not be using the page in the future.
To import redirects in bulk, we recommend Matrixify.
Does Shopify Support Structured Data?
In general, Shopify does a good job with structured data. Many Shopify themes include "Product" markup, which provides Google with key information about your product, such as its name, description, price, etc. Most themes take care of this for you, since structured data is probably the most important element of any ecommerce site.
It would be beneficial for Shopify sites to add structured data to collections pages as well. To accomplish this, it is necessary to add the Product structured data to each individual product link in the product listing page.
In addition, if you plan to use Shopify's blog functionality, you should use the "Article" structured data type. This is a great schema type that tells Google that your blog content is editorial in nature. Of all informational content schema, "Article" seems to be the one that Google may prefer since it is mentioned in their official documentation. The "BlogPosting" schema is also a type of structured data that can be added to your Shopify blog.
We regularly add breadcrumb internal links with BreadcrumbList structured data to Shopify sites. Having breadcrumbs on an ecommerce website is vital, since they provide users with easy-to-use internal links that indicate where they are within a site's hierarchy. These breadcrumbs can also assist Google in understanding how the website is structured. In general, we recommend adding site breadcrumbs to Shopify sites and marking them up with BreadcrumbList structured data in order to assist Google in understanding those internal links.
Having a developer on hand can be helpful if you wish to implement structured data. This will ensure that your site will always have these schema elements.
If your development resources are limited, we recommend Schema App Total Schema Markup. Structured data types, such as Product and BlogPosting schema, will be incorporated on the appropriate webpages of the site. Additionally, OfferCatalog schema will be added to every product within a category page.
Why Choose WebCitz to Manage Your Shopify SEO
You should choose our expert Shopify SEO services because you feel confident we are the right team for your ecommerce business. Here are some of the reasons we suggest considering:
- We have been in business since 2004, which means we have more than 18 years of experience.
- Our primary source for leads and new client development is our own SEO success.
- You likely found our website after doing a Google search for a Shopify SEO service we offer.
- We do not outsource technical or on-site Shopify SEO services since we have our own in-house team of ecommerce marketers.
- If you call us during regular business hours, you'll likely be able to reach us within the first few rings.
- We have extensive experience marketing Shopify storefronts.
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