Why choose this course?
Search engine traffic is key to the success of an e-commerce website. With user behaviour changing daily and algorithms continuously updating, it is difficult to stand out in today’s competitive online marketplace. In this course we want to help you understand how to keep search engines happy without compromising the user experience.
But optimizing an e-commerce website for SEO has a unique set of challenges that differ from other types of sites. In this course, we will look at the different elements of SEO that apply specifically to revenue generating websites.
You’ll get practical and in-depth understanding of the best SEO strategies for e-commerce websites, as well as actionable tips and techniques that you can apply immediately to your site.
Who should attend this course?
This course is designed for people who already have a basic understanding of SEO and want to enhance and improve their e-commerce website visibility in the organic search listings. It is ideal for anyone who has daily responsibilities or oversees an e-commerce website, and is looking to improve their ability to grow their inbound search engine traffic, boost online conversions and stand out in today’s competitive online marketplace.
Course Content
Complexities of optimizing e-commerce websites:
- How SEO differs from e-commerce to other types of websites
- Common challenges with e-commerce SEO optimization
The importance of content & SEO:
- What are the issues with duplicated content?
- How can I find duplicate or low quality content on my website?
- How do we tackle duplicate and thin content?
- How can I make room for content in my page templates?
- Hidden and thin content on PLPs
- Category pages: optimizing category pages for search engines and users
- Product pages: optimizing product pages for search engines and users
Keyword research: where your strategy starts:
- How to perform keyword research for ecommerce
- How to find keywords for ecommerce product and category pages
- How to choose keywords for ecommerce product and category pages
Site architecture & faceted navigation:
- Ecommerce website architecture
- Faceted navigation
- The difference between using filters to narrow down product listings and creating unique landing pages for products
- When to use filters and when to create listings
- Understand links and how to develop an optimised internal linking structure
E-A-T optimization
Ecommerce conversion
Dealing with out of stock items: retirement product strategies:
- How an out of stock product can interrupt a consumer’s journey through a site
- When and how to redirect an out of stock product
- The importance of messaging around out of stock products
Link building:
- Understanding links and SEO
- (Alternative) link targeting opportunities
- Most linked-to product pages from the real world
- What makes a good link?
What's included in your ticket?
Book onto this training course and you will get:
- A full day's training on your chosen topic on Monday September 22
- Lunch included on your training day
- Full access to brightonSEO and Hero Conf conferences and all the talks on Tuesday 23 & Wednesday 24 September
- Bag of merch
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Please note: Exact course content is subject to change.
We may cancel courses which don't have enough enrolments, and if so we’ll let you know and give you the opportunity to swap to an alternative course or have a refund.