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SEO Ecommerce Pitfalls - BrightonSEO Sept2016
Dave Naylor of Bronco gave a presentation at the BrightonSEO conference about common ecommerce SEO pitfalls. He discussed issues he found with Under Armour's UK site such as duplicate content, missing canonical tags, and only indexing 12 products per page. Naylor provided tips for ecommerce SEO best practices like using representative URLs for categories and products, implementing faceted search properly with canonical tags, and treating an HTTPS migration carefully. He emphasized having a technical SEO audit sites and testing as a human versus bot.
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- 2. www.bronco.co.uk I founded Broncoin 2003 I’m a Technical On-Page SEO I started in this industry working in the Inkjet Cartridge ecommerce sector since then; I have worked in the Fashion, Holiday, Gifts, Cars, Bathrooms, Kitchen and pretty much everything else you can sell on the internet @bronco #BrightonSEO Dave Naylor
- 3. www.bronco.co.uk So many pitfallswhat to cover Platform - Https – Keyword research – Product description – Urls – Canonicals Page speed – User generated content – Affiliates – Product variations – Reviews systems - Product feeds – Schema – Images – Ajax – Mobile Panda – Penguin - Hummingbird #BrightonSEO @bronco #BrightonSEO
- 4. www.bronco.co.uk Ecommerce SEO Pitfalls Theproblem was my starting point #BrightonSEO @bronco #BrightonSEO
- 5. www.bronco.co.uk Ecommerce SEO Pitfalls SoI did what I normally do these days… @bronco #BrightonSEO
- 6. www.bronco.co.uk Ecommerce SEO pitfalls@bronco #BrightonSEO I pulled on my Under Armour and went and cleared my head…. But I could not get passed the fact that Brands got a massive pass in ecommerce So......
- 7. www.bronco.co.uk Big brands seemto be able to get away with lots of bad practices since Rankbrain and they are ranking for their products against best practices … but that’s changing slowly @bronco #BrightonSEO Mr.Big.com Business
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- 9. www.bronco.co.uk @bronco #BrightonSEO I loveUnder Armour I have : UA Compression tops UA Shorts UA T-shirts
- 10. www.bronco.co.uk Men's Under Armour® Transform YourselfSuperman Compression Shirt @bronco #BrightonSEO I love Under Armour
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- 15. www.bronco.co.uk @bronco #BrightonSEO Why wasthis page ranking : http://www.underamour.co.uk/en- gb/mens/tops/short-sleeve-shirts/ Over http://www.underarmour.co.uk/en- gb/compression/ Both pages had NO content and Javascript was only allowing 12 products indexed per page?
- 16. www.bronco.co.uk Google’s cache only shows12 products, 9 dupes and the issue gets worse the rel-prev and next are setup wrong.
- 17. www.bronco.co.uk @bronco #BrightonSEO Why wasthis page ranking : http://www.underarmour.co.uk/en-gb/mens/tops/short-sleeve-shirts/ http://www.underarmour.co.uk/en-gb/mens/tops/short-sleeve-shirts/compression <link rel="canonical" href="http://www.underarmour.co.uk/en- gb/mens/tops/short-sleeve-shirts/" />
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- 19. www.bronco.co.uk Can you imagineif you didn’t have a brand like Under Armour? #BrightonSEO @bronco #BrightonSEO Ok….
- 20. www.bronco.co.uk One representative URLfor category page One representative URL for individual product page https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2014/02/faceted- navigation-best-and-5-of-worst.html #BrightonSEO @bronco #BrightonSEO Google Guidelines
- 21. www.bronco.co.uk @bronco #BrightonSEO Product Urls Myrule of thumb is if your products will live in more than one category : www.mystore.co.uk/product else www.mystore.co.uk/category/product
- 22. www.bronco.co.uk Facet Search Pages: www.mystore.co.uk/category?facets www.mystore.co.uk/category#facets Canonicaltags - /category else www.mystore.co.uk/category/facet Canonical tags - /category/facet @bronco #BrightonSEO Category Urls
- 23. www.bronco.co.uk GENDER – MENS,WOMENS, BOY, GIRL BRAND – UA, SKINS, NIKE PRODUCT TYPE – SHORTS, T-SHIRTS, ETC FIT – LOOSE, SLIM, FITTED, COMPRESSION COLOUR – BLACK, BLUE, RED SIZE – XL, L, M – 9, 10, 11 PRICE - £1-10, £10-50, £50-100 @bronco #BrightonSEO Human vs Bots
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- 27. www.bronco.co.uk Don’t be Stupid@bronco #BrightonSEO For every url that is indexed by Google you will need : Content not just Products, unless you are A Big Brand
- 28. www.bronco.co.uk Making it work@bronco #BrightonSEO Facets are a powerful tool so use them wisely
- 29. www.bronco.co.uk Making it work@bronco #BrightonSEO
- 30. www.bronco.co.uk Making it work Theyonly have 10,000 Products @bronco #BrightonSEO
- 31. www.bronco.co.uk Making it work Theynly have 10,000 Products
- 32. www.bronco.co.uk Should I goHTTPS? @bronco #BrightonSEO https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2014/08/https-as-ranking-signal.html If it was as easy as Gary makes out why do we see posts like 36 - POINT CHECKLIST FOR A SUCCESSFUL HTTP TO HTTPS MIGRATION http://www.aleydasolis.com/en/search-engine-optimization/http-https-migration-checklist- google-docs/ Treat http to https like a rebrand
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- 38. www.bronco.co.uk Too Clever? @bronco#BrightonSEO
- 39. www.bronco.co.uk Too Clever? @bronco#BrightonSEO
- 40. www.bronco.co.uk Take Aways @bronco#BrightonSEO Get a good technical SEO to look at your site! Failing that…check and check again as a HuBot. Faceted Search & Canonicals the biggest error made.
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