{"id":19125,"date":"2022-03-18T09:21:02","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T09:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nobraineragency.com\/seo\/https-www-nobraineragency-co-uk-blog-blog-six-seo-content-writing-tips-for-ecommerce-brands\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T15:25:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T15:25:29","slug":"six-seo-content-writing-tips-ecommerce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobraineragency.com\/seo\/six-seo-content-writing-tips-ecommerce\/","title":{"rendered":"Six SEO content writing tips for ecommerce brands"},"content":{"rendered":"
Writing for ecommerce and writing for SEO have often been seen as two very conflicting disciplines in the past. Ecommerce lends itself to snappy and pithy sales copy that will help convince people to buy a product, whereas SEO-driven copy has a requirement for quantity as well as quality, and a necessary focus on search terms that people use to find whatever it is that you sell.<\/p>\n
As a brand that sells online, you don\u2019t want the content to get in the way of your slick visuals and a smooth UX, but attracting the right kind of traffic to your product pages is also a must. Can you really please savvy shoppers at the same time as search engines?<\/p>\n
We think so! It\u2019s a matter of finding the right balance and using SEO best-practice, combined with a good understanding of your audience, product knowledge and what makes a good user experience, to craft the right kind of ecommerce SEO<\/a> content that gets results on all fronts.<\/p>\n We\u2019ve compiled some of our top tips to help you find the right balance on your ecommerce website.<\/p>\n When you\u2019re looking at SEO for product pages<\/a> specifically, it\u2019s vital to consider the intent of searchers, rather than just choosing keywords to target that have the biggest monthly average search volumes. Driving 50 visitors who demonstrate purchase intent through their search to a page on your website can be so much more meaningful to your business than driving 5,000 visitors who are never likely to buy from you.<\/p>\n Find out more about intent-led keyword research for ecommerce<\/a>.<\/p>\n Search engines are designed to return the best possible information to searchers; that\u2019s why people use them after all. So, ensuring that your ecommerce content is focused around providing the answers and information that customers need is always the right approach.<\/p>\n By ensuring that you provide them with the information they need to be confident making a purchase decision, you can help get the transaction over the line. Approaching things from the customer\u2019s point of view can feel very different to starting with your product and working outwards, but it can make a real difference to the type of traffic that you attract.<\/p>\n We\u2019ve all seen keyword stuffing and know that not only does it make for a pretty poor user experience, it also doesn\u2019t work from an SEO point of view anymore either. Your focus keywords very much need to be included on a page, but you absolutely don\u2019t need to hit a certain number of occurrences or density. Rather than trying to shoehorn keywords into an ecommerce page, utilise your page title, meta description, H1 and the other header tags to incorporate keywords whenever possible. This can help to ensure that your main copy on the page is more concerned with delivering the information that customers need to know rather than being a vehicle to get your target keywords into the content \u2013 better for sales and a more straightforward experience for the user.<\/p>\n If you want to help keep product pages clean, tidy and uncluttered, taking advantage of every opportunity to use unique optimised content is important to make the most of your SEO potential. This is why every snippet of generic or manufacturer-provided product information that you use on your ecommerce site is a wasted chance for you to stand out from everyone else selling similar products, both to potential customers and search engines. Replacing generic product information with your own useful and unique copy is an easy win from an SEO point of view \u2013 it helps give search engines a decision to make about which pages to rank for relevant search terms.<\/p>\n While the search engines themselves will always have the ultimate control over how they display search results, there are elements that can help you shape the way your ecommerce site appears in results listings to a significant degree. These include:<\/p>\n By utilising certain types of Schema markup on a category page, for example, you can deliver a search result that gives shoppers a more compelling reason to click through. Searching for \u2018blue shoes\u2019 brings up the below result from brand Next. They have utilised ItemList Schema to highlight the types of blue shoes that they sell within the search result itself, showing Leather, Court Shoes, Ballerina Shoes etc right there in the SERP, showing the customer more information about what\u2019s available.<\/p>\n You can also add product structured data<\/a> to product pages to help provide the search engines with more information they can use in their listings.<\/p>\n Google won\u2019t always use your chosen page description, the search engine sometimes rewrites these, but you can give your pages the best chance of appearing as you wish in search results by sticking to the best practice guidelines i.e. stick to a page description of 156 characters or less and give people a reason to click through.<\/p>\n1. Take a fresh look at your keyword strategy before creating any new content<\/h2>\n
2. Plan your ecommerce content to be customer-centric<\/h2>\n
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3. Use your keywords wisely<\/h2>\n
4. Create unique product description copy<\/h2>\n
5. Shape your SERP listings as best as you can<\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\n6. Ensure your ecommerce content is clear and concise<\/h2>\n