Boosting eCommerce Conversion Rates With SEO

If you are the current webmaster of any e-Commerce website you will be able to understand the difficulties involved with creating revenue and traffic from search engine organic listings. This is why concentrating on Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) and Conversion Rate Optimisation (CRO) along with Pay Per Click (PPC) can give previously floundering websites the ability to be revived and given enough life to become competitive with have high conversion rates, thus helping increase websites within the search engine results pages (SERP's).

But there are many basics that must first be established, such as quality products and a website that can be considered simple and intuitive with elements that show signs of trust throughout. Combining this with effect with SEO is vital to the success of increasing the traffic to your website and will allow your website to rank as highly as possible within the search engine results page SERP's.

This can be achieved by following many of the guidelines and best practices that are set out by each major search engine. Therefore by simply reviewing the following should give any website the ability to not only match these guidelines but also make sure the website is optimised for customers who are searching for the products you stock to find your products and website.

Beginning with a clear and consistent website design that allows simple navigation to and between product pages. Using breadcrumbs to help users follow their path and create the ability to go back to any previous main page can be very useful. Always allow for title tags that can be chosen for for each product page and this must coincide with unique targeted keywords and key-phrases for each web page also.

The heading tag is used as a metric within the search engines algorithm along with the title tags as previously mentioned including the meta-keywords and description. These must be utilized effectively and targeted towards the products that the sites offer and what kind of website it is. This also includes images that contain alt tags to enable the search engines crawlers to 'read' the image.

Another main area to help enhance any e-Commerce site can be to create a SEO friendly URL structure that reduces the parameters often created when using a dynamic site. Create each product page with hyphens to separate each word while using a clear structure with forward dashes between each main page, this not only lets the customers clearly see the current location of the web page but will perhaps make it easier for customers to find websites much easier.

To help fill the need for consumers to feel safe while shopping online is important and can be very simple to carry out. Ensure there is a secure payment gateway that can be shown visually with the sign of an logo of a site that shows a secure payment is available. This can be further enhanced by including customer testimonials in the form of quotes or by having reviews below each product to let the potential customers see the products are of good quality and if the service they received was good or not.

Helping further enhance SEO on an e-Commerce website, implementing a social media strategy can create links for your site but to also to create awareness and help to engage with customers. This is something that can be discussed in depth with everyone involved to weigh up if entering into social media is suitable for them.

Also using PPC aligned with your current SEO can enable a much more targeted approach and help capture more clicks from searchers. With the possibility of driving relevant and high converting traffic to your site.