Online shop owners make searches like “How to improve the rank of my eCommerce website” and “How to increase website ranking on Google” because establishing a new online shopping website amongst already established brands is nothing less than a challenge. FATbit SEO professionals knew this when it was approached by MyStore – leading Nigerian online shopping website team for managing its online presence.
After conducting initial market study, our team of SEO & website optimization experts accepted the herculean task and within just three months of time, our team:
Below is list of steps using which we increased online store ranking by resolving SEO issues with MyStore ecommerce website and made Nigerian shoppers favor it over established online shops. Hope this ecommerce store SEO case study can help you figure out how to improve online store ranking on Google search results.
Keyword research is the very first and most critical step for search engine optimization. Lack of quality keyword research is one of the most common issues with ecommerce websites that don’t sell. Using company feedback, AdWords Keyword Planner, Google Auto-complete, and Google Trends, a list of phrases & keywords commonly used as search terms by normal users was created.
SEO team also did a complete Competitor analysis to find out keywords being targeted by MyStore’s competitors organically and through advertisements. Some keywords were combination of:
On page optimization is the second step. On-page optimization makes the content of online store easily readable for search engine crawlers. The focus is primarily on:
Information Architecture (URLs, tags, headings, sitemaps, content indentation, product and category pages optimization etc)
The ecommerce store was custom designed and developed by FATbit and was integrated with an SEO friendly Content Management System. The CMS helped us conveniently optimize website’s loading time, web page size, page titles, meta-tags, URLs, headings, alt tags for images, image & product description, and other various other details for targeted keywords.
Our team ensured proper categorization of featured products. If the question, ‘How to increase website ranking on Google’ is occupying your mind, then, on-page optimization could be the answer.
Our team brought down website loading time to further improve user experience and in the process managed to reduce website bounce rate as well. High website load time is one of the major issues with online shopping websites due to large number of pages. This helped the online shopping store score in one of the most important search engine ranking factors. Our design team accomplished this by reducing the size of various website components, using better development techniques to fetch data, and deploying faster servers. Working on website loading time is often forgotten by designers and SEO specialists and thus this point is missing from most SEO case studies.
You can use Pingdom, a tool to test website loading time.
We advised the category managers of MyStore to add detailed, keyword rich and user friendly product descriptions and update the content on a regular basis. Search engines prefer websites with fresh and quality content. MyStore team was warned against copying content from any other online stores as content duplication is strictly penalized by search engines. FATbit recommends you to improve your online store by paying extra attention to on-site content optimization.
After all these efforts,we were able to steadily increase organic traffic for MyStore -leading Nigerian online store as you can see in the screenshot below:
MyStore had duplicate content on some pages as some of the products being sold were very similar. Sometimes, multiple URLs were being generated automatically for the same page every time a new buyer left a review. To counter such issues with the ecommerce site, robots.txt was used. This blocked areas that created duplicate content.
Canonical tag was used to indicate web pages to be indexed and no-follow attributes were assigned to links that contained duplicate content.
On site SEO takes time to generate returns. So, from the very beginning, FATbit team looked beyond website to generate multiple sources of traffic. Targeting excessive keywords through the official website and getting decent online store ranking for all is not always possible. So, we constantly invested resources towards generating regular traffic through company’s blog, guest blogging, social media marketing, etc.
All these external sources were linked to dedicated on-site landing pages for better conversion. If you want to improve your online shopping website sales, then, create as many sources of traffic as possible. If any SEO experts company or their case study claims that excellent results were achieved by just working on the official website- you need to think twice before hiring them.
Our team of professional content writers generated quality, informative, and engaging content to share with target audience. Videos, Infographics, Slideshows and various such resources were also created to push as many resources on top 10 search results for targeted keywords. The content was optimized for keywords which affected the online store’s ranking. This helped the brand avoid cannibalization. Content was always created with publishing platform and target audience in mind. Posts were then marketed through social media sharing, participation in discussion forums and comments section. All the external links also helped in link building and improved MyStore’s domain authority.
Within 3 months, the website was appearing in top 3 organic results for important keywords like:
Our SEO team strongly believes that Social Media Optimization is as important as on-site optimization. Various relevant keywords of MyStore were targeted through company’s official and unofficial social media profiles on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Google+, etc. Competitive keywords were used in the profile details, posts, image titles and descriptions, various board details and pins created on Pinterest, etc. Hashtags were used to increase content visibility for both visitors and search engines.
MyStore was then tested for usability and visitor user experience. Loopholes in the conversion funnel were identified and corrected to reduce bounce rate. Some corrective steps were taken to increase overall visit duration of the website and they contributed hugely in improving sales for online shopping website.
Also Read: 25 quick tips to increase your online store’s conversion rate
MyStore performance was continuously monitored through Google Analytics and various other tools. Target keywords, homepage, landing pages, external sources of traffic, etc were constantly tracked for fluctuations and areas of improvement. The website’s overall traffic and individual page traffic, visit duration, bounce rate and exit rate, etc were also analyzed.
All this helped MyStore in steadily improving its search engine performance as well as presence.
Also Read: Your website’s bounce rate can tell you about your lost sales.
MyStore is presently growing by leaps and bounds, and is quickly emerging as one of the leading ecommerce stores of Nigeria. Accomplishing the same in such a short time would have been impossible without optimization and website improvement efforts of FATbit team.
Also read: Google Analytics reports to monitor your website’s performance
Have you been lately spending your nights wondering ‘why doesn’t my online store ranking increase on Google” and how to improve Google SEO.
If yes, then, our ecommerce SEO experts can help you build constant sources of steady traffic and guide you about making small website changes. FATbit can help you drastically improve your sales prospects just like you read in this online ecommerce store’s SEO case study. Request a free consultation session to get your free online store improvement tips.
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It was nice reading the case study.
Nice article ! Very comprehensive case study I must say. With the changing face of SEO we need to change our techniques too and seeing the results that you got in such a short span of time I am confident that these rules would work for my store as well. I loved the way this article is written, simple ans easy to understand.
Looking forward to more SEO related case studies 🙂
Thanks For Your valuable posting, it was very informative.
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Well, these tips are very useful and normal for any new online business, but there are many niches when the competition is so high that we cannot achieve a rank that offers decent traffic without adwords.
It’s actually a great and useful piece of info.I’m happy that you just shared this useful info with us. Please stay us informed like this. Thank you for sharing.
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hi,
very useful information.
Thank you.
Great post! I’ve been using these tips for my own site since January. My traffic has started to pick up, and I’m hoping it only grows from here.
Hi mate i have website which is content less nature so how can i improve my page rank please have a look http://www.subkuchsell.com/`
Hey Ali,
As for now, website need to be made search engine friendly by optimizing meta tags, duplicate content and creating dynamic provision for each ad page etc. Besides it, start publishing website/business name in local news publishing and content marketing platforms, it will help you to grow your business/brand gradually 🙂
Content marketing, social media and local business listing, will definitely also help in improving google ranking. Category pages optimization will help you to generate huge organic traffic. We recommend you to start focusing on promotion of homepage and category pages for now.
Best wishes for you venture 🙂
FATbit Team
Hey Amit,
nice article bro. finally found a helpful article… thanks for sharing it.. keep writing bro..
Thanks Mukesh!
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Great tips Amit! Thanks for sharing. I was wondering, what keyword search tool/s do you recommend?
Hey Emmerey,
Glad you liked it!
Regarding your question, we always recommend a process for identifying useful terms or keywords for search marketing work, that is
1. Analyze your competitors (Semrush is best tool)— find out what keywords they are using
2. Analyze backlinks of your competitors (a href is best tool) — find our what keywords they are using in link building
3. Google autosuggest — it will help you in finding more related terms
4. Social media trends (buzzsumo) — this tool will help you to collect info from social media
5. Quora– what terms people do use in questions or answers related to your keywords
6. After collecting all details and finalizing terms, Use free or paid tools mentioned below
Use adwords keywords planner, Moz and Semrush to make a final list of highly targeted and useful keywords for your online marketing efforts
Remember: Tools always help you to give a right direction but it’s important to collect all the things manually based on your own research.
Regards
FATbit Team
Just noticed your response. Thank you for the recommendations! 🙂
Thank You for sharing your article. This is very informative article to organic results on Google.
Keep it up.
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It is really nice to provide such information and Tips. I Will definitely apply all the tips on my Online Shopping website.
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SEO is one of the best strategies to get the better ranking in google
Glad to read your post.
Glad to hear that!
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Great article! Thanks for sharing such good info regarding seo.
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Thank you for sharing valuable information. Nice post. I enjoyed reading this post.
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Wow…Thank you so much for information, your site has very good content. Thanks……..
nice tips about seo
Thanks Radha!
We have written few more insightful and useful posts on SEO, we are sure that you will like it.
Have a look: https://www.fatbit.com/fab/category/seo-ppc/
Have a great day!
-FATbit Team
Great…!! that’s great advice.
I read all of your posts, they are very nice and useful. Thank you so much for sharing this information.
Thanks for the appreciation Pushpendra!
Great Post! It is very informative and helpful to enhance my knowledge.
Thanks Sonika!
Keep coming for more posts about SEO and ecommerce industry.
Have a nice day
– FATbit Team
Nice post !!! Thanks a lot for sharing the nice informative stuff for how to rank your own E Commerce website.
thank you for the tips, my question is about the domain authority, how to get higher rate?
Hello Wad,
Thank you for your query. Here are the checkpoints to improve DA (Domain Authority):
-Improve website quality
-Produce high-quality content on your website(content loved by visitors)
-Optimize meta tags properly
-Earn backlinks from relevant websites (more quality content you produce more backlinks you earn)
-Make your website error-free and mobile ready
-Improve your website loading speed
-Improve authority on social media
Hope this helps! Cheers