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E-commerce SEO and Shopify development

Product and collection SEO, Shopping feeds, paid campaigns allocated by margin, and custom Shopify apps. We work out of Los Angeles with brands selling fashion, fabrics, furniture and home, wherever they ship to.

  • Technical clean-up first
  • Collection pages that sell
  • Shopping feed rebuilt
  • Spend allocated by margin
  • Custom Shopify apps and APIs
  • Product page and checkout friction
Your product on the shelf

Switch between a bare product feed and a complete one. Same product, same price, and a different place on the shelf. Illustrative listing.

Where online stores lose the sale

Rarely at the checkout, which is where most of the attention goes.

Product pages that rank for nothing

The theme writes the title tag, the manufacturer wrote the description, and the same copy appears on forty other stores. Nothing on the page says what makes this listing worth returning to search results for, so search engines have no reason to prefer it.

A feed that under-sells the product

Shopping results are assembled from your product feed, not your page. A bare feed with a SKU for a title, no attributes and no reviews puts a good product last on the shelf next to worse ones that filled in their details.

Filters generating thousands of pages

Faceted navigation quietly creates a near-infinite set of URLs, every size and colour combination crawlable and indexable. Crawl budget goes to combinations nobody searches for while the collection pages that matter get visited rarely.

How we work on a store

Six areas, in the order they usually need attention.

  1. Technical clean-up first

    We control what's crawlable, close off the filter combinations generating duplicate pages, resolve variant URLs competing with their own parent product, and get collection and product templates loading quickly on a phone. Until this is settled, new content just adds to the pile.

    Usually the single biggest gain on an established store.

    Crawl waste
    ×8,400 filter URLs indexable
    ?color=&size=&sort= combinations
    ×Variants competing with parents
    212 products worth indexing

    Crawl budget spent on what you actually sell.

  2. Collection pages as the money pages

    Most commercial searches are for a category, not a single product: the shopper types a fabric, a style, a use. Collection pages are where those searches should land, and on most stores they're an empty grid with a one-line heading. We give them real content, sensible internal linking and titles that match how people actually search.

    A good collection page outranks and outsells a dozen thin product pages.

    Where the search should land
    "merino wool sweaters"
    → /collections/merino-wool/
    ×"upholstery fabric by the yard"
    → single product, then a dead end
    "linen blend fabric"
    → collection exists, no copy on it
  3. A product feed that competes

    We rebuild the feed so every product carries a descriptive title, the attributes shoppers filter by, accurate availability and shipping, and review data where you have it. Shopping placement is decided on that feed, so a store with complete data beats a better product with a bare one.

    The same attributes feed AI assistants, which increasingly answer product questions directly.

    Feed quality
    As exported SKU-4471
    $84
    no attributes
    Rebuilt Merino Wool Crew Sweater, Charcoal
    $84 · free delivery
    ★★★★★ 4.9
  4. Paid spend allocated by margin

    Shopping and social campaigns are structured around what each product actually earns rather than what it sells most of. High-volume, low-margin lines get a budget ceiling; the products worth acquiring a customer for get the room. Retargeting is built on your own customer lists and site visitors before any broad targeting.

    Revenue reporting is only as good as the purchase tracking underneath it, so that gets verified first.

    Budget by margin
    High margin, steady demand
    Room to bid
    High volume, thin margin
    Capped
    ×Loss-makers still running

    Sorted by what each product earns, not what it ships.

  5. Custom Shopify apps and integrations

    Where an off-the-shelf app doesn't exist, our developers build one: bespoke product configurators, wholesale and trade pricing, and API integrations joining the store to inventory, ERP and fulfilment so stock counts and orders stay in step without anyone retyping them.

    If an existing app does the job properly, we use it and say so.

    Store connections
    Shopify store
    InventoryERPFulfilmentTrade pricing

    Stock and orders stay in step automatically.

  6. Where the sale is actually lost

    Traffic and placement only matter if the page closes. We work on the things shoppers hesitate over: enough photographs from the angles that answer a question, sizing and materials stated plainly, delivery cost and returns visible before the cart rather than after it, and reviews on the page instead of a tab. Then the checkout itself, where a forced account or a shipping surprise loses people who had already decided.

    Measured properly, so you can see which change moved it rather than guessing.

    Where people stop
    Product page
    Delivery cost not shown until checkout
    ×Cart
    Account required before paying
    ×Checkout
    Shipping added at the last step
    Payment
    Wallet options present

    The surprises cost more than the price does.

Do you only work with Shopify stores?

Shopify and WordPress with WooCommerce are where most of our work sits, and Shopify is where the custom development happens. The SEO and advertising side applies to any platform; the technical fixes differ by platform but the problems are remarkably similar everywhere.

What kinds of brands do you work with?

Fashion, fabrics and textiles, luxury furniture and home, and brands that need custom apps or integrations rather than an off-the-shelf store. Catalogue businesses with a lot of variants are where the technical work pays back fastest.

Our revenue numbers don't match between Shopify and Google Analytics. Can you fix that?

Usually. Some difference is expected, because refunds, attribution windows, consent and time zones are handled differently by each system. The avoidable part is usually duplicate purchase events, a thank-you page firing on refresh, or consent settings dropping a share of sessions. We separate the expected gap from the actual errors. Until those agree, every decision about ad spend is being made on a number that isn't real.

How long does e-commerce SEO take?

Technical fixes and feed work can show up within weeks, because they change how much of your catalogue is eligible to be seen at all. Competitive collection rankings take several months. Shopping campaigns produce sales far sooner, which is often where to start while the organic work builds.

Who owns the store and the ad accounts?

You do. The store, the code, the customer lists and the advertising accounts are in your name. If you move on, the audiences and the purchase history go with you.

Let's look at what your catalogue could be doing

Tell us what you sell and which platform you're on. We're in Los Angeles and work with stores across the US. You will hear back from the person who would actually do the work.

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