How to Optimize the SEO in your E-Commerce Websites?

Oct 17
09:19

2012

Shailendra Singh1

Shailendra Singh1

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In E-Commerce Websites in any SEO Company, Magento is known to be one of the most search engine friendly systems. So when you have to make your e-store evident in front of the prospective buyers then there are a lot of techniques to do that.

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These techniques are known as Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques. Here some are some useful tips to optimize SEO in Magento so that customers know about your store and find the right content in your store when they are in need of it-

Some common SEO Techniques in Magento

@ Install the latest version of Magento

Follow this path- System=>Configuration=>Web=>Search Engines Optimization

Go to the “URL Options” menu and set the “Add Store Code to URL’s” option to “no” to make sure that the store codes are not added to the URL’s. Next go to the “Search Engine Optimization” menu and set the “Server URL Rewrites” option to “Yes” to remove the “index.php” from the URL’s so as to create more search engine friendly and readable URL’s.

@ Next go to this path- System=>Outline=>Design=>HTML Heads and modify the “Default Robots” settings to “INDEX,How to Optimize the SEO in your E-Commerce Websites? Articles FOLLOW” so that the search engines can catalog your website and make it noticeable in the search results. Make sure that in the “Default Title” and “Default Description” boxes; use the default name and the report that your pages require if you forgot to write a title and a depiction. This will make sure that that no page is left blank and without any material which would make it even more difficult to index your page to your website.

@ You need to ensure that your e-store is easily available to the search engines and this can be done by creating a “robots.txt” file that contains commands that direct the search engines to the URL’s that you want to appear in the search engines and which you don’t want. 

@ Write good descriptions for all the new categories, products and even pages that consist of many words. This would make sure that the search engines can exactly divulge all the pages when the customers shop in that website.

@ You can avoid any kind of duplication in the URL by following this path- System=>Configuration=>Catalog=>Search Engine Optimization, you can also utilize the scope of category and product images to entice more visits from the search engine to your website by using meaningful names for the images like “sony-lcd-television-42inch-black.jpg” instead of “photo234.jpg”.  When you have to add an image of a product then always write useful and meaningful description that can be used as the “title” and “altag” for the prescribed image, like “Sony Vaio Laptop”.

By using these simple tips you can certainly optimize the ranking of your e-commerce websites to garner maximum visibility to the customers. They can get to see the products in a quicker format too.