BrightonSeo - ecommerce seo pitfalls by Dave Naylor

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@davenaylor@broncowww.bronco.co.uk

Dave Naylor

#BrightonSEO 2016

Ecommerce SEO Pitfalls

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I founded Bronco in 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

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Dave Naylor

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So many pitfalls what 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

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Ecommerce SEO Pitfalls

The problem was mystarting point

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Ecommerce SEO Pitfalls

So I did what I normally do these days…

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Ecommerce SEO pitfalls

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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......

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Big brands seem to 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 #BrightonSEOMr.Big.com Business

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@bronco #BrightonSEOI love Under Armour

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@bronco #BrightonSEOI love Under Armour

I have :UA Compression topsUA ShortsUA T-shirts

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Men's Under Armour® Transform Yourself Superman Compression Shirt

@bronco #BrightonSEOI love Under Armour

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@bronco #BrightonSEOUnder Armour

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@bronco #BrightonSEOThat’s not right

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http://www.underarmour.co.uk/en-gb/compression/

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Why was this 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?

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Google’s cache only shows 12 products, 9 dupes and the issue gets worse the rel-prev and next are setup wrong.

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Why was this 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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http://www.underarmour.co.uk/en-gb/mens-under-armour-transform-yourself-superman-compression-shirt/1273689.html

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Cough Cough Under Armour I’m a Large ;)

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Can you imagine if you didn’t have a brand like Under Armour?

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@bronco #BrightonSEOOk….

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One representative URL for category page

One representative URL for individual product page

https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2014/02/faceted-navigation-best-and-5-of-worst.html

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@bronco #BrightonSEOGoogle Guidelines

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@bronco #BrightonSEOProduct Urls

My rule of thumb is if your products will live in more than one category :www.mystore.co.uk/productelsewww.mystore.co.uk/category/product

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Facet Search Pages:www.mystore.co.uk/category?facets www.mystore.co.uk/category#facetsCanonical tags - /categoryelsewww.mystore.co.uk/category/facetCanonical tags - /category/facet

@bronco #BrightonSEOCategory Urls

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GENDER – MENS, WOMENS, BOY, GIRL BRAND – UA, SKINS, NIKEPRODUCT TYPE – SHORTS, T-SHIRTS, ETCFIT – LOOSE, SLIM, FITTED, COMPRESSIONCOLOUR – BLACK, BLUE, REDSIZE – XL, L, M – 9, 10, 11 PRICE - £1-10, £10-50, £50-100

@bronco #BrightonSEOHuman vs Bots

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GENDERBRAND PRODUCT TYPEFITCOLOURSIZEPRICE

HuBot

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@bronco #BrightonSEOhttps://ubersuggest.io/

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@bronco #BrightonSEOhttp://www.xmind.net/

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Don’t be Stupid@bronco #BrightonSEO

For every url that is indexed by Google you will need :

Contentnot just Products, unless you are

A Big Brand

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Making it work@bronco #BrightonSEO

Facets are a powerful tool so use them wisely

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Making it work@bronco #BrightonSEO

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Making it work

They only have 10,000Products

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Making it work

They nly have 10,000Products

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Should I go HTTPS?@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 like36 - POINT CHECKLIST FOR A SUCCESSFUL HTTP TO HTTPS MIGRATIONhttp://www.aleydasolis.com/en/search-engine-optimization/http-https-migration-checklist-google-docs/

Treat http to https like a rebrand

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Rel-Canonicals@bronco #BrightonSEO

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Rel-Canonicals@bronco #BrightonSEO

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Rel-Canonicals@bronco #BrightonSEO

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Hreflang@bronco #BrightonSEO

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Hreflang@bronco #BrightonSEO

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Too Clever?@bronco #BrightonSEO

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Too Clever?@bronco #BrightonSEO

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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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Any Questions?

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Ecommerce SEO Pitfalls