One of my stores, www.Gothicplus.com is in the top 8 results on google for 10 keywords- for 5 of them, I'm #1 My other stores are also ranking well, but since I just checked this one last night, it's my example.
I only use Opencart's 1.5.2 built in seo tools, no seo addons.
So how did I do it?
I took some time to develop a list of keywords I wanted to rank for (using google's keyword tool to see what was being searched for in my niche) and use them throughout the store - in product names, descriptions, meta data, category names, tags, etc. Most products have descriptions I wrote and probably 70% of the products on this store I also list on 1-3 other stores - the others are unique to it. I've been working on backlinks from dofollow and nofollow sources like forums, blog comments, etc, for about a month now. I have product feeds with google and thefind. I did htaccess 301 redirects for my most popular products and those that were posted on pinterest, etc. I have facebook page, G+ page and twitter accounts for it. I submitted my site maps via google and bing webmaster tools (using UKSB's feed extension). Not sure what helped the most, but I would highly recommend doing all of the above.
I've never done PPC or any other paid marketing or linking schemes and I try to find blogs and forums to comment in that fit my stores niche. I do not have a blog or youtube channel for this store, though do post products to pinterest and bookmarking/product discussion sites. I haven't created any static pages for the store either - it uses all opencart dynamic pages. Haven't done any article submissions for it either.
The opencart version of this store only went live in April (original store was up since 2004), so getting #1 rankings in only 4 months I'd say is pretty good And can be done by anyone really with time and no money.
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Now you are up there. The hard part is staying up there and as you well know, you cant afford to sit back and must persist in all avenues you are currently using.
A great success story for SEO with OpenCart, especially for clothing related stores as there many out there competing with you.
Keep up the good work and reap in the benefits :-)
p.s. your background on the above site would look better set to fixed rather than scroll on the body background image ;-)
There's so much SEO quackery out there. It's refreshing to see common sense SEO practices being put to use successfully.
And thanks UK - I did have my background image set to fixed...though it would have worked better without a typo putting fiixed instead lol.
Sorry genegrin but I've never used version 1.4 so no clue on how it differs.
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•Your site likely has canonical URL problems. For instance, you may have the same content on http://www.url.com, http://url.com, and http://www.url.com/index.html. That separation can cause lost link value and hurt rankings for your page. If you find external links pointing to both the non-www and the www version, use a 301 re-write rule so that all pages point to the same URL.
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Thanks. I'll try to find somebody who can help me with this stuff. I'm not a webmaster.labeshops wrote:No. I have a rewrite rule to make mysite.com http://www.mysite.com
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Every page doesn't have the same title and description - or shouldn't. By default the title is your products title + site title and the description is whatever you type into the meta description box for that item, so not sure what you mean. I added extra key words in the header file after <?php echo $title> - Keywords you want (may not be the exact code - going from memory on this one).genegrin wrote:Oh, i forgot to ask you. Did you solve an issuel with the title and description tagles too? Or every page has the same ones like the main page?
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Ok thanks for the input, thats what I figured would be the case.labeshops wrote:Any text you can give search engines to find on category pages, etc, is a good thing to me. Ecommerce stores as a rule are image heavy so adding text is a very good thing.
I guess getting some keywords related to some of the main items in that category to appear also in text.
Best get my planning head on for the right content to add :-)
Andy
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eg gift-vouchers
or
Gift-Vouchers
??
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As always, thanks for your help/advice again!labeshops wrote:probably not but I have no idea. I always use all lower case for things.
No doubt ill have another question or issue in the future to challenge the helpful people of the forum
Andy
seriously though, thanks for the tips. def gonna get on these since my last facebook ads got me nothing.
anyone know if the meta fields are really even used much by the engines anymore? I thought last I heard they were pretty much useless from the olden days when people would just fill them various keywords.
That is one opinion....bigchili wrote:The Meta Keyword tag is useless for SEO nowadays.moneycarlo wrote:anyone know if the meta fields are really even used much by the engines anymore?
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