This document discusses ecommerce SEO strategies in 2012. It provides tips on content curation, links, schema markup, XML sitemaps, and the importance of quality, engaging content including questions and answers, products, guest posts, and video. Video is highlighted as an important format that can drive higher conversions, on-site engagement, search rankings, and offline sales. The document also warns of the risk of over-optimization penalties from Google.
7. "If you want a
preview of where
we're headed with
apparel go look at
the denim category,
go look at women's
jeans on Amazon.
That'll give you a
little insight into our
future."
http://www.excitingcommerce.com/2010/08/j
eff-bezos-on-amazons-fashion-strategy-.html
14. Clean XML Sitemaps
“ We have a very tight
threshold on how clean your
sitemap needs to be. […] We
want only a couple of
percentage points of error.
https://seogadget.co.uk/check-your-xml-sitemap-errors/
25. Guest Posting or Content Marketing?
“ As more of our attention
shifts online, its only natural
that the mantle Oprah held
for a quarter of a century
shifts to a digital native
http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelellsberg/2012/01/11/the-tim-ferriss-effect/
26. How To Deserve To Rank
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/great-content-for-seo-simpler-than-you-ever-imagined
27. Allow your
content to be
remixed and
hacked. Turn
products into
linkbait
http://artistmarketplace.moleskine
.com/
35. Zappos have over 50,000 product
videos (and >185,000 video urls
indexed)
http://blogs.zappos.com/fif
tythousand
36. Product Video Results
Higher Conversions Stay Longer
64% -85% 2min Longer
Average stay when engaged
More likely to purchase after with video
watching a product video Comscore 8/2010
Internet Retailer 4/2010 / Comscore 8/2010
Search Enhancement Offline Impact
53x Higher 6% increase
Likelihood of a front-page In in-store sales
Reckitt Benckiser, Nielsen, May 2010
Google result
Forrester, 1/2010
This slide stolen with permission from TippingpointLabs.com
37. How Do I Get Video Results?
http://www.distilled.net/blog/video/getting-video-results-in-google/
38. How Do I Produce Videos?
http://www.slideshare.net/philnottingham/incorporating-video-into-your-link-building-strategy