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Ecommerce SEO & Shopify Plus Growth

Your Store Has Visitors. Google Can't See Them.

I engineer the organic infrastructure that turns your Shopify or WooCommerce store into a compounding revenue engine, less ad dependency, more margin, permanently.

John Akande — Los Angeles SEO consultant for service businesses, ecommerce, SaaS and B2B

Why Ecommerce SEO Fails

You Run Ads. Google Doesn't Trust It.

Most ecommerce sites look great and convert reasonably well, but they're invisible to organic search. Not because of bad content. Because of structural problems that no amount of blogging fixes: duplicate product URLs, thin collection pages, Core Web Vitals dragged down by app scripts, and zero topical authority in any product category.

39%

Of all ecommerce traffic comes from organic search, yet most stores invest less than 10% of their marketing budget there.

73%

Of Shopify stores have significant duplicate content issues from product variants and faceted filters, most owners have no idea.

8.7x

Average revenue return per dollar spent on ecommerce SEO versus $2.50 for paid social, over a 24-month window.

68%

Of online experiences begin with a search engine, not a marketplace.

What I Build

Ecommerce SEO as a Full Revenue Stack.

Three systems that compound on each other. Each is necessary. None works in isolation.

Product & Collection Architecture

Make every page earn its place.

Collection pages with real topical depth, full product specs, and an internal link system that channels authority through your catalog.

Pain: products invisible on GoogleGain: collection + product pages ranking

Technical Ecommerce SEO

Fix the structural problems stores ignore.

Variant canonicalisation, faceted navigation control, and Core Web Vitals fixes across product templates. See how Shopify web pixels destroy Core Web Vitals.

Pain: Google crawling 1,000 useless URLsGain: crawl budget spent on revenue pages

Ecommerce Content Engine

Topical authority that closes sales.

Buying guides and comparison content that capture commercial-intent searches and pre-qualify buyers before they reach the product page.

Pain: content that gets zero trafficGain: content that ranks and sells

The Process

Four Phases to Organic Revenue.

01

Technical Audit

A full diagnostic of your store's crawl architecture, indexation, duplicate content, Core Web Vitals, schema, and internal link flow. Every leak quantified with a prioritised action plan, not a generic list.

02

Architecture & Structure

We rebuild the foundation: canonical structure, sitemap architecture, internal linking from homepage to collection to product, breadcrumb schema, and Core Web Vitals fixes. This determines whether the content you add next actually ranks.

03

Collection & Product Authority

We build topical depth into your highest-value collections and products. Buying guides, comparison content, and product page depth that answers every question before a buyer contacts support.

04

Revenue Attribution & Compounding

Every organic visitor tracked from landing page through checkout. Revenue per page, assisted conversions, and organic vs paid split. Monthly reporting shows exactly what SEO earned this month versus last.

Proven Results

See This Service In Action.

E-Commerce · Luxury Hair · Shopify

Rose Style Studio

94% paid-ad dependent Shopify store. Shopify SEO architecture, luxury keyword targeting, and a content hub grew organic revenue from $1,200 to $6,240/month in 8 months.

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E-Commerce · Men's Grooming

3 Kings Grooming

From 1 ranked keyword to 52. SEO architecture rebuild and cultural keyword strategy took organic revenue from $890 to $3,650/month with #1 rankings for 3 flagship terms.

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Grocery Ecommerce · Global Shopify

McGrocer

Crawl control across millions of legacy URLs and GEO architecture for the US, Europe, and GCC on a worldwide Shopify store. +50% organic traffic in 90 days.

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Shopify Plus SEO

Shopify Plus Is Powerful.
Out of the Box, Its SEO Is Broken.

Shopify Plus gives you more surface area to work with than standard Shopify, but it doesn't fix the architectural problems that come with the platform by default. Here's exactly what I address.

Problem 01

Variant URL Duplication at Scale

A store with 200 products and 5 variants each has 1,000 near-identical URLs competing against each other.

Fix: Canonical tags + variant consolidation strategy

Problem 02

Faceted Navigation Chaos

Filter combinations create thousands of low-value pages. Many stores have more filter URLs indexed than products.

Fix: Robots.txt + canonical strategy + crawl budget redirection

Problem 03

Shallow Collection Pages

Default Shopify collections are thin product grids. Your highest-value keywords land here, so thin means no rankings.

Fix: Collection content architecture + topical depth build-out

Problem 04

App Bloat & Core Web Vitals Collapse

Every installed app adds scripts. Most Shopify Plus stores score 30–55 on PageSpeed, and a one-second delay costs 7% of conversions.

Fix: Script audit + lazy loading + theme performance optimisation

Problem 05

Missing Product Schema

Shopify's default schema skips AggregateRating and Review, the fields that earn star ratings in search results.

Fix: Full Product + Offer + Review schema via theme or metafields

Problem 06

International Markets Without hreflang

Without hreflang, your UK and US storefronts show up in each other's search results and compete for the same rankings.

Fix: Markets hreflang implementation + geo-targeted indexing strategy

Platforms I Work With

The Strategy Is Platform-Agnostic.
The Execution Is Not.

Every platform has its own specific SEO problems. I work across all of them, with a technical approach tailored to each platform's constraints and opportunities.

Primary

Shopify Plus

Full technical SEO, variant canonicalisation, Markets hreflang, theme performance, Liquid-level schema, headless Shopify (Next.js / Hydrogen) setups.

Supported

Shopify (Standard)

Same structural approach with workarounds for platform limitations. App-level solutions where theme access is restricted. Full product and collection architecture.

Supported

WooCommerce

Yoast/RankMath configuration, slug architecture, database query optimisation, WordPress performance stack, Core Web Vitals via hosting + caching layer.

Supported

Headless / Custom

Next.js, Remix, or custom storefronts with Shopify or Contentful backends. Server-side rendering SEO, metadata management, dynamic sitemap generation.

What's Included

Everything Built. Nothing Handed Off.

I don't hand you a strategy document and disappear. Every deliverable is built, implemented, and tracked against revenue impact.

Technical Layer

The foundation that makes everything else work.

  • Full ecommerce technical audit (crawl, index, Core Web Vitals)
  • Variant URL canonical implementation
  • Faceted navigation and filter URL strategy
  • Sitemap architecture and crawl budget prioritisation
  • Product, Offer, Review, and BreadcrumbList schema
  • Shopify Plus Markets hreflang (if applicable)
  • Page speed optimisation across product/collection templates

Content & Authority

Topical depth that ranks and converts.

  • Collection page content architecture and copywriting
  • Product page depth templates (specs, FAQs, ingredient/material breakdowns)
  • Buying guide and comparison content for commercial intent keywords
  • Internal linking map from content hub to product pages
  • Keyword architecture across all product categories
  • Competitor gap analysis, what's ranking that you're not

Tracking & Reporting

Revenue-connected visibility, not vanity dashboards.

  • GA4 ecommerce tracking audit and configuration
  • Organic revenue attribution by landing page
  • Keyword rank tracking for all target terms
  • Monthly reporting: organic revenue vs paid revenue split
  • Assisted conversion tracking for content to product journeys
  • Crawl monitoring (Google Search Console + Screaming Frog)

Who This Is For

This Works For You If…

  • You're running a Shopify, Shopify Plus, or WooCommerce store generating $300K–$10M annually
  • You're spending 60%+ of your marketing budget on paid ads because organic isn't working
  • Your product pages rank for almost nothing, or only for your own brand name
  • You've had SEO done before and it didn't move revenue, only vanity metrics
  • Your collection pages are thin grids with no content depth
  • You want to scale without proportionally scaling ad spend
  • You're preparing for a fundraise or acquisition and need demonstrable organic revenue growth
This is not for dropshipping stores, stores under $300K, or businesses looking for a quick-fix ranking boost. Ecommerce SEO is a 6–18 month infrastructure investment. The compounding is real, but it requires patience and a proper foundation first.

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Ecommerce SEO Questions, Answered Honestly.

Ecommerce SEO is about architecture at scale. A service business has 10–30 pages to optimise. A store has hundreds or thousands, product pages, collection pages, variant URLs, faceted filter pages, each capable of cannibalising the others or wasting crawl budget. The job is structuring that complexity so Google consistently surfaces your highest-converting pages.
Shopify Plus gives you more control, more flexibility over theme code, checkout customisation, and multi-market international SEO via Markets. But more control doesn't automatically mean better SEO. Out of the box, both tiers share the same structural problems: variant URL duplication, shallow collection pages, faceted navigation chaos, and app-driven Core Web Vitals bloat. Plus gives you the surface area to fix these properly.
Usually one of four reasons: (1) The page has no internal link authority flowing to it, Google treats it as an orphan. (2) The collection page above it is thin, so the entire category has weak topical authority. (3) You have variant URL duplication, Google is splitting its attention across 12 URLs for the same product. (4) Your Core Web Vitals are poor enough that Google is deprioritising the page for mobile search.
Technical fixes often show organic traffic movement within 30–60 days. Meaningful revenue impact typically follows at the 90–180 day mark, as collection pages build authority and product pages consolidate. Rose Style Studio saw the first measurable organic revenue increase within 6 weeks of the technical rebuild, the full +420% came over 8 months.
Most stores I work with are spending 60–95% of their marketing budget on paid ads because organic isn't pulling its weight. That's not a strategy, it's a dependency. Ads stop the moment your budget runs out. SEO compounds. The goal isn't to kill paid media; it's to make organic carry its share so ads become acceleration, not life support.
Collection pages are the mid-level pages between your homepage and individual products, and the most commercially valuable pages on most ecommerce sites. Someone searching 'men's grooming subscription box' or 'natural hair care kits' lands on a collection page, not a product page. Default Shopify collections are thin: no unique content, no topical authority, just a product grid. Rebuilding them is often the single highest-leverage fix on any ecommerce site.
No one who understands how search works guarantees specific rankings, Google's algorithm is not a contract. What I guarantee: a transparent process, clear deliverables at every phase, honest projections based on your actual starting point and competition, and monthly reporting tied to organic revenue, not just keyword positions.

Ready to Make Organic Pull Its Weight?

Start with a free ecommerce SEO audit. You'll get a clear picture of your biggest technical issues, your highest-value keyword opportunities, and a realistic projection of what organic revenue could look like for your store in 6–12 months.

Serving California

Ecommerce SEO Across California.

Shopify and WooCommerce SEO for California-based ecommerce stores, from Los Angeles to the Bay Area.

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