Search Marketing For E-Commerce

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Succeeding In Search For Retailers

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Succeeding In Search For Retailers

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Technical SEO• Make sure you dig deep• Use multiple tools• Manual review is essential• Never rely solely on automated reports

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Sometimes It’s The Simple Things

• Bingbot blocked in robots.txt

• c.£25k per month revenue

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Be Wary!• Infinite scroll on a new website

New site launched Infinite scroll removed

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Pagination Pain

http://www.denby.co.uk/drinkware/mugs/icat/mugs?sort=sequence_mugs&sort=name&order=asc&order=asc&categories=mugs&q=*&setpagenum=2&perpage=16

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Pagination Pain

<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.denby.co.uk/drinkware/mugs/icat/mugs" />

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AJAX Issueshttp://www.jigsaw24.com/video_camcorders_dslr/store/fcp-category/list#page=1

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AJAX Issues

Where’s my meta description!?

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AJAX Issues

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Hidden Content

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Hidden Content

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Hidden Content

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Structured Data Mark Up

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Structured Data Mark Up

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Mobile Interstitial Penalty• From January 10th 2017

• “May not rank as highly”

• Mobile search only

• Does not apply to banners like cookie acceptance or app downloads

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Content Hubs

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Content Hubs• Brings traffic from medium- and long-tail

keywords

• Range of pages/content is a signal of a good user experience to Google = higher ranking for head terms

• Informative content boosts trust and conversion rates

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Content Hub Performance

• 2015: +66% organic traffic, +38% organic revenue YoY• 2016: +11% organic traffic, +32% organic revenue YoY

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Ongoing SEO Is Important

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Content Marketing For Links• Builds domain authority

• Links on content pages can funnel equity in to hub pages

• Builds brand awareness

• Creates content for email and social channels

• Additional source of organic traffic

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Pop Culture96 links from DA98

• CNet• Huffington

Post• Metro• Paste

Magazine• Wired

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Content Marketing Essentials• Blog (ideally integrated WordPress)

• Creativity & understanding of purpose• You need a big enough audience

• Research

• Production values

• Outreach skills

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Keep Chipping Away

• Technical SEO• Consolidating/removing low quality blog

posts• Keyword research• On-page optimisation• Category page content• Four content hubs so far

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What About PPC?

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Shopping Campaign Priority

Priority changed from Low to Medium

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Shopping Catch All Campaign• All items in feed

• Single, low bid (usually <10p)

• Campaign Priority: Low

• Gets traffic when:• Not all items are in other Shopping campaigns• Other Shopping campaign budgets have less

than 100% impression share

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Remarketing Lists For Shopping

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Remarketing Lists For Shopping

• CTR typically many times higher

• CPC increases, but:

• Conversion rate more than doubles on average

• You can also use Customer Match as well as AdWords or Analytics remarketing lists

• Consider excluding recent purchasers

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Feed Rules

Product title in feed

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Feed Rules - Title Optimisation

Climpson Estate Espresso Blend Ground or Whole Bean Coffee

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Search Term Reports

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Search Term Reports• Add negatives

• Find opportunities for Search campaigns• One keyword we found led to a campaign that

has generated over £7k revenue in three months at a return on ad spend of 1353%

• Create Single Product Ad Groups (SPAGs)• Control which product shows for which term• Separate generic from specific/brand terms

using negatives & Campaign Priorities

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Price Extensions• Only appear on mobile in

top ad position

• Great for category-level keywords or products with options

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