Website Ecommerce Owners :-
Earlier this month, Google’s Matt Cutts announced that the company with the largest search market share may be rolling out changes that will directly target and impact ecommerce businesses.
For web-based business owners, managers, marketing directors and social community managers - here’s what you need to know.
Google will be looking at the quality of online merchants because, as Matt Cutts stated to Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Land, “Google does not want low quality experience merchants to be ranking in the search engines”. This is great for consumers, but means that ecommerce websites will really need to step it up in order to compete to both obtain and maintain the coveted top position(s) on Page 1, above the fold, for targeted search terms.
Here are a few factors that would likely impact ecommerce sites in organic search – aside from reviews, which are already being used to rate merchants on Google+:
- Completion of data feed in Google Shopping
- Google Seller ratings
- Popularity of brand name / website
- Social media activity (fresh content and actual dialogue with consumers)
- On-site trust factors (phone number, privacy & return policies, tracking, etc.)
- Functional, full-featured shopping cart
- Both current and historical rankings, traffic
- Quality, relevant content (informational in combination with ecommerce)
So, until Google rolls this out, you’ve got some time to remove any duplicate content, ensure that all of the ecommerce must-haves are in fact on your site, and identify what can be done to boost organic rankings.
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