SEO For Retail Companies And Shops

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If your shop is not getting enough website visitors, why not talk with optimisation companies that do SEO for retail companies? 

Just fill in the form to get free quotes and advice from local SEO agencies that offer SEO for shops.

Do Shops Need Optimisation Work On Their Websites

Consider a shopping website that has been set up, a large e-commerce website that has had significant investment and hundreds/thousands of products for sale, but no visitors to the website, why? 

The reason is that there has been no optimisation work done on the site, no-one knows it is there and it just blends into the background of all the other billions of websites on the internet.  

Whether your website is like Amazon or a local toy shop, SEO for shops is essential.

SEO for retail companies is just as important as the design of the website, without optimisation work the website would just sit there being a website.

As far as shopping websites are concerned, there are two factors to consider:

  • Design – Does the site look good/work well
  • Visitors – Is the website getting customers to it, if so, chances are they will buy.

Many shops get websites set up, but do not get the visitors to their websites; customers go elsewhere – to their competitors. 

This is where SEO for retail companies is important, otherwise customers will go to another shop.

The internet is full of hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of shopping websites; all competing for business. 

In today’s world, only the strong survive and shopping websites that have good SEO, good visibility will get traffic/visitors/customers, and do well.  

In 2018 online spending was the highest so far.

What Is SEO For Shops?

Since more and more of us are now doing our shopping online, SEO for shops and retail companies is more important than ever.

SEO for shops and retail companies is a complex and constantly changing form of marketing to improve website ranking on search engines such as Yahoo, Bing and Ask.  Google is the dominant search engine since it is the web browser that is loaded onto most websites and smartphones.

The process involves getting traffic to your website from the main UK search engines:

  • Google
  • Yahoo
  • Bing
  • AOL
  • DuckDuckGo
  • Ask

Each of these search engines use a different formula (known as a website algorithm) to rank all UK retail websites, which changes throughout the year.

Of course competing against shopping giants like Amazon is challenging.

SEO is very much an unknown, since each of the search engines keeps its formula for ranking shopping and retail websites a secret.  The best guess is that SEO broken down into 2 main areas:

  • Onsite SEO (your website content/blog, your website structure, your coding, mobile usability etc.)
  • Offsite SEO (other retail websites linking to you).

All search engines use complex algorithms to rank all shopping websites based on how relevant they think it is to the user’s search query.  These algorithms change several times a year as search engines evolve.

The quality of your website content is important, but not everything.  The usability of your site and the amount of backlinks your website has from trustworthy sites can all help to increase your site’s visibility and help you rank higher on the search engine results page (SERPS).

The load speed of your website also now is considered as part of the mix.

The hosting of your website is important (which effects page load speed).

Your social presence is another factor that effect where your appear on the web.  When social media landed, sites like Facebook were disregarded.  In the following years, social media is taken into account big time!

Users who have made a relevant search are more likely to click on your website, interact with your brand and make a purchase.  If your website gets people returning, this is also taken into account (news websites for example have returning visitors).

Choosing Optimisation Companies That Know The Retail Industry

There are hundreds of search engine optimisation companies around the UK, thousands actually, so for shops, choosing the right one is hard.

It is advised that when considering agencies, to select an SEO company with retail experience.  

An agency that has done SEO for retail companies in the past or currently has clients that they are working with that are also in the retail sector. 

As there are so many search engine optimisation companies around the UK, it is only logical to select one that has retail marketing experience.

Having a look through an SEO companies portfolio (on their website) should give a good feel for the level of experience they have in the retail sector. 

It is not unusual to ask a search company for referrals, to chat to some of their current customers and ask what they are like to work with.  Are they good at optimisation and (most importantly) are they getting a return of investment for the search work.

Compare SEO Prices For Your Shop

Value for money is the main thing, finding a search company that knows about SEO for shops is not all about the cheapest, it is about the best. 

SEO prices do vary considerably.

If you can find an optimisation company that will increase your website traffic to your shop by 500% which results in thousands of pounds of profit, then it is worth paying £1000 per month. 

Equally, if you are paying £1000 per month and not seeing any results after 2-3 months, then you are wasting money. optimisation takes time, but it is all about results. 

Google analytics is a good way to measure how effective the search work is and if it is yielding results. All agencies charge differently; based on their size and experience. 

Choosing a marketing company to handle your SEO can be a challenge.

Finding a good SEO expert is not easy, but finding a cheap one is easy.

Cheap SEO does not mean good optimisation, even if it is cheap, if it does not produce results, then it is money down the drain.

For free advice and quotes from search engine optimisation companies that have experience in SEO for the retail companies, just fill in the form above.

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