E-commerce: what is SEO?

 

If you are an e-commerce merchant, you must have heard of SEO. This is a very important strategy since it helps generate higher quality leads and redirect traffic to your online shopping website. Let’s look at what it is.

The short form of Search Engine Optimisation, it is a whole set of strategies to help enhance the quantity and value of search engine traffic that goes to a website. The main goal is to improve the ranking of your shopping site so that it appears higher in Google searches, thus increasing visibility, leads and sales.

You might be thinking: “But I already have a large number of browsers. So, how can SEO help me?”. Well, it targets better-qualified leads. As such, you attract clients who are willing to make a purchase.

The term SEO is an umbrella one. It involves several techniques since various ranking signals determine the position of your website. These are page load speed, mobile-friendliness, content relevance and quality, website and content structure, domain name authority, user experience metrics, such as bounce rate, page speed and time on page as well as backlink number and quality. According to experts, the search engine to focus on is Google. This is because it controls 92.27% of the global search engine market share.

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