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What is ecommerce SEO?
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Ecommerce SEO is the work that gets your products found when shoppers search for them on Google and in AI answers. It covers your category pages, your product pages, how your store is built and linked together, how fast it loads, the product details Google reads, and the links and mentions from other sites that build trust.
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How is ecommerce SEO different from SEO for a service business?
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A service business wins in its own area, often on Google Maps. An online store competes across the whole country, against Amazon, the big retailers and the brands it sells. It also has far more pages: every category, product, filter and size can become a page, and each one can help or hurt. So the work is about choosing which pages should rank, making them the best answer, and keeping the rest out of the way.
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How long does ecommerce SEO take to work?
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It can move fast. Nutritist went from outside the top 100 to #1 for “sodium alginate LPR”, with twelve searches on page one in the first 20 days. Our guarantees put a clock on the rest. If you don’t see visible improvement in your key metrics within the first 20 days, we refund $200 on top of returning your payment for that period. If your qualifying keywords aren’t on the first page of Google within 60 days, we keep working for free until they are.
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How much does ecommerce SEO cost?
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Organic SEO for one store usually runs between $1,497 and $5,000 a month. Organic SEO across several websites, such as a brand with more than one store, usually starts at $5,000 a month. Your number depends on how many categories you want to win and how strong the stores above you are. You get it on the strategy call.
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What keywords should an online store target?
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Start with category searches in the words shoppers use, because that is where the volume and the buyers are. Google estimates 201,000 searches a month for “sofas” in the US and 49,500 in Canada. Then the narrower product searches, which are easier to win and closer to a sale, like “freestanding gas fireplace” or “tuxedo sofa”. Then the problem searches for products people don’t know by name yet. We map every category you sell against what people search, and build in order of what pays.
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Can you rank our store above Amazon and the big retailers?
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For the right searches, yes. The Game Caps ranks #3 for “UNC hat”, with New Era at #5 and Amazon at #6, and #1 for “original bar snapbacks”. Big retailers win on size. A specialist store wins with a better category page for the exact thing the shopper typed. We pick the searches where that is true and build there first.
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Do you work with Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce and Magento?
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Yes. Each platform has its own habits, like Shopify’s collection and product addresses or WooCommerce’s tag and filter pages, and we plan around them. We can make the changes ourselves with access to your store, or hand your developers a clear list in plain words.
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What do you do about filter and sort pages?
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Filters for size, colour and price can quietly create thousands of near copies of the same page. Google wastes its visits on them and can show the wrong one. We decide which filtered pages people actually search for, like “black leather sofa”, and turn those into real pages. The rest we tell Google to skip.
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Should we write our own product descriptions?
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For the products that matter, yes. When a hundred stores use the same manufacturer description, Google has little reason to pick yours. We start with your best sellers and best margins, and write descriptions that answer what buyers ask: size, fit, materials, care, shipping and returns.
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What happens to our SEO when a product sells out or is discontinued?
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A product that is coming back keeps its page, marked out of stock, with links to similar products. A product that is gone for good sends visitors and Google to the closest replacement or its category. Deleting the page outright throws away what it earned, and leaves shoppers on an error page.
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We are moving to a new platform. Can you protect our rankings?
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Yes, and it is far easier before the move than after. We list every page that brings in visitors, map each old address to its new one, and check the new store before and after launch. Most traffic lost in a move comes from missing redirects and pages that quietly changed.
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We also sell on Amazon. Does that hurt our own store’s SEO?
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Not on its own. It matters when your Amazon listing and your store use the same words, because Amazon usually wins that tie. Give your own product pages more than the listing has: better descriptions, real photos, answers, reviews and your full range, so Google has a reason to show you.
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Do product reviews help ecommerce SEO?
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Reviews are one of the things Google weighs, alongside how well the page matches the search and the links pointing at your store. They also add fresh words shoppers use, and star ratings can show in the results when your product details are set up so Google can read them. We help you collect them and show them properly.
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Is SEO or Google Shopping ads better for an online store?
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Ads buy a click today, and the cost rises every time a competitor bids. SEO earns the visit without paying for each click, and it keeps working after the budget stops. Most stores run both, and lean more on SEO as their category pages climb.
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Will you get our products into ChatGPT and Google’s AI Overviews?
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AI SEO is included in every plan. Clear product and category pages, honest answers and the same product details everywhere online are what AI tools quote and cite. For “original bar snapbacks”, The Game Caps is the first result and the hat Google’s AI Overview explains by name. We track where your store appears in AI answers and report it every month.
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Do you work with online stores in Canada and the US?
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Yes. We rank online stores across Canada and the United States. The results on this page include national searches in both countries.
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Which online stores do you take on?
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Established stores doing $20,000 a month or more. We take on 15 new clients a month, so every one of them gets the work done properly.
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Am I locked into a long contract?
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No. There are no long-term contracts. Results keep you here, not paperwork.