In my latest opinion piece for The Drum, called 'Search Engine Optimisation fundamentals for e-commerce sites', I have spent several hundred words explaining how ecommerce sites can use Search Engine Optimisation techniques to improve their organic rankings.
This is my 5th article in my online column about eCommerce and rather than it be a subjective piece, I wanted to produce a more factual article and dip into some technical elements too. However, in writing it there was quite a lot of SEO topics that I missed out, mainly because I wanted the article to be understood by the majority of The Drum's readers, who are more likely to be creative and marketing types rather than those at the sharp end of online site optimisation.
So what did I miss out? Well here's some things I didn't cover:
1. Webmaster tools insights that are relevant to online retailing
2. Micro formats, such as the star ratings for products that can then get fed into organic results
3. Canonical references and robots.txt techniques to reduce crawl bleed
4. Multiple sitemap.xml files for content, catalogue, etc
Was I wrong not to include these? I don't think so. Besides, it would then have meant I couldn't write this article :-)
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