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Having a thorough understanding of SEO basics, and how to improve it further for eCommerce stores is how your products can stand out in search, and even show your products in places where customers are ready to buy.

This is your guide to better results.

SEO Basics

Search engine optimization (SEO) is the strategy of settings and configurations that help Google analyze a website, and present it prominently in related queries.

With a strong foundation in place, you will be ready to make eCommerce specific optimizations.

Three Types of Search Engine Optimization

There are three main ‘types’ of search engine optimization. Each one has their own steps to take. The types are technical SEO, on-page SEO, and off-page SEO.

We will introduce them in that order, as you will make some early decisions in the same order.

Technical SEO

Technical SEO refers to the administrative side of the website that helps inform Google it can be trusted and shown to customers looking for somewhere to shop. 

• Keyword-related domain
• Fast loading
• SSL certificate
• Clear navigational layout
• Mobile friendly

On-page SEO

On-page SEO is the side of optimizations that most think of when they hear “SEO”. These aspects are a little more obvious:

• Product titles
• Descriptions
• Alt Text on images
• Reviews
• Related products

Off-page SEO

Off-page SEO refers to the actions taken outside of your domain that inform search engines that your page is a valuable resource. Off-page SEO can take many forms:

• Social media engagement
• Links from other websites
• Name recognition and brand awareness

When other websites, domains, and sources point to your products as a valuable item – the more valuable it becomes in Google’s eyes as well.

New to SEO? Here’s How to ‘Get on Google’

If you are completely new to SEO, there is a great resource from Google themselves on how to ‘Get on Google’.

When your store is set up, your navigation is clear, and you have your products listed, Google should automatically ‘crawl’ it and register it among the rest of the results.

To skip the wait, you can submit your site directly via Google Search Console by creating an ‘XML Sitemap’. There are many plugins, such as Yoast or SEOPress that can generate one for you. A basic XML Sitemap is available if you visit ‘https://www.yoursite.com/wp-sitemap.xml’

Where Will Your Products Show?

After Google indexes your store, your products and prices, it will insert them into places where searchers are most likely to purchase. 

• Google Search
• Google Images
• Google Shopping
• Business Profile
• Google Lens
• Google Maps – if you have a physical location

Google My Business

For stores with a physical location claiming and configuring your business profile on Google is crucial. This helps your store show up in local searches, map searches, assistant searches.

Google Merchant Account

The Google Shopping tab is a remarkably active channel for eCommerce. To have your products listed in this tab, you need to sign up for a Google Merchant Center account.

A WooCommerce SEO Checklist

Here is a starting checklist for everything you can easily do to improve your store’s SEO optimization:

• Mobile friendly theme
• SSL Certificate installed
• Add alt tags to all images
• Write helpful, keyword-based product titles and descriptions
• Use readable, keyword-based URL structure (Permalinks)
• Submit an XML sitemap to Google Search Console

Advanced SEO for WooCommerce

Once you’re set up with the fundamentals, you can start employing more advanced tactics and really fine tuning your relationship with search engines. Exploring SEO plugins, advanced formatting tips, and ongoing additions like blog posts that can bolster your status even more.

Keyword Research

Tools like Ahrefs and Ubersuggest are fantastic to do some preliminary keyword research. This is helpful when posting products, and when developing new products.

Different Types of Media

Incorporating video from YouTube, TikTok or other platforms is great for standing out with media snippets.

The variation in media also helps Google place your results in more places within video search and the YouTube platform itself.

SEO Plugins for WooCommerce

There are many plugins to help fine tune the seemingly infinite SEO dials. Here’s a few to check out first:

• Rank Math
• YoastSEO
• All in One SEO Pack
• Squirrly SEO
• WP Meta SEO
• MonsterInsights
• WP Rocket

Choose one that you like the most, and it will help keep down the number of plugins you have installed on top of each other.

Structured Data (Schema) for Reviews, Availability and Pricing

With all of the optimizations you have done up to this point, you’ve made your store recognizable and noticed by search engines. Schema Markup is how you start jumping out and getting noticed by customers directly.

Don’t be intimidated by the technical sounding term – Schema Markup is just a type of code added to your pages to provide specific details directly on the search results page.

For example, you can highlight prices, availability, featured reviews, and your store’s location right within the search result.

Any of the SEO Plugins you chose will have options to fill these out. In general, you want your prices to be visible, stock-levels accurate, and encourage reviews or ratings as often as possible.

Create a Blog for your WooCommerce Store

A blog is a powerful resource for your customers, and even more powerful for SEO optimization. With a blog, you can:

• Target long-tail keywords
• Build a catalog of helpful customer support resources
• Create a line of communication with your customers

Each published blog post is a new opportunity to rank on Google for different inquiries. Keeping up with a blog takes commitment, but can easily become the cornerstone of your SEO strategy.

SEO for WooCommerce is about Commitment and Clarity

SEO takes time, but is undeniably one of the best ways to grow a WooCommerce store. You could spend thousands on consultants, hours seeking the latest SEO hack, but you don’t have to. WooCommerce SEO isn’t about hacks and expertise. It’s about commitment and clarity. 

• Fill out your product fields fully every time
• Use clear alt text and product descriptions

Focus on making the experience the best it can be for your customer, and don’t cut corners.

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With access to entirely new customers and markets, the opportunities to scale and grow seem endless. Representing your business with a beautiful, easy to use online storefront is easy thanks to WooCommerce. 

Follow this guide and you should be off on a whole new chapter in your business.

What is WooCommerce?

Let’s start with the basics.

WooCommerce is a free plugin that gives eCommerce features to any WordPress website. A WooCommerce store can sell physical and virtual products, accept payments, arrange shipping, and track orders.

Currently, there are over 4 million online stores running on WooCommerce, and the platform continues to grow in popularity and versatility.

Requirements for WooCommerce

If you are new to having your own website, think of it like building blocks for now. WooCommerce builds on top of WordPress, which builds on top of your hosting plan, which displays the finished set on your domain name. 

So to get started you will need:

• A domain name (www.yoursite.com)
• A web hosting provider
  • SSL certificate installed
  • WordPress installed

Oh, and you’ll need products to sell. Start there if you haven’t already.

Step by Step: Launching Your WooCommerce Store

Purchase a Domain Name and Hosting Plan

Choose the perfect domain, and select a hosting provider that offers optimized options for WooCommerce.

Here are the most popular hosting options for WordPress:

• Bluehost
• SiteGround
• WP Engine
• Hostinger

Install WordPress on Your New Domain

Most hosting providers offer WordPress installs through “one-click install” wizards. Follow these prompts from your host and note your WordPress admin credentials somewhere safe.

If you need to install WordPress directly, you can download it from www.WordPress.org.

Install the WooCommerce Plugin

With a fresh WordPress install, login to the “wp-admin” dashboard with your credentials and navigate to the “plugins” section.

The admin dashboard is typically found at www.yoursite.com/wp-admin

• Go to Plugins > Add New 
• Search for WooCommerce
• Click Install Now
• Click Activate

Configuring WooCommerce

WooCommerce has an easy to follow onboarding wizard that will walk you through setting up your store’s address, currency, and types of products (physical, digital, variable, simple, etc.)

Choose a WooCommerce Friendly Theme

• Go to Appearance > Themes
• Click Add New

Search for a design you like that is labeled to work with WooCommerce. Some popular free choices are:

• Astra
• Storefront
• Kiosko

Add Your Products

It’s time to add the actual products you will be selling.

• Go to Products > Add New

Every product needs to be set with:

• Product Title
• Detailed Description
• High Quality Images
• Price
• Inventory Levels

Use categories for organization, and tags for extra groupings. 

(Beware: Category names and product tags are visible to customers on some themes)

Set Up Payment Gateways

When accepting payment online, you don’t actually interface with a customer’s credit card directly. It gets passed through a “payment gateway” instead.

WooCommerce supports:

• Stripe

• PayPal
• Square
• Apple Pay / Google Pay

Recently, WooCommerce has released their own payment gateway “WooPayments” to offer this service directly.

Configure Shipping and Taxes

Understand the logistics of your offline shipping process and where you will be able to ship to and the costs you incur. Then define the shipping zones, rates and methods for shipping accordingly in WooCommerce.

In WooCommerce > Settings > Shipping

• Set shipping zones (regions and countries)
• Assign shipping methods and rates

Determine if you will be charging sales tax, and which items that will apply to. Many plugins, like WooCommerce Tax are very helpful for these settings.

Test, Test, Test!

Before telling a single customer about the website, you should spend considerable time testing the checkout experience and ensuring it is as smooth as expected. You also want to be familiar with the checkout side of the process to offer better support when that time comes.

Add a product to your cart, checkout using a test payment method

• Go to Payments > Settings
• Enable Test Mode
• Use the test card numbers provided to test different scenarios

Check for unexpected errors, confirm that emails are sent when they should be, shipping rates are as expected, order processing makes sense, and make sure you feel confident in fulfilling a real order. Then you’re ready to go live.

Managing Your WooCommerce Store

Managing a WooCommerce store is a big undertaking, but there are several plugins and tools to help optimize the day to day of it all:

• WooCommerce Smart Manager for bulk editing
• ShipStation for managing shipments
• MailPoet for newsletters and marketing
• Google Analytics for WooCommerce for reports and analytics

Fulfilling Your First Orders

As your first orders begin to roll in, define and document your process. Earmark the potential places for automations and optimizations, and most importantly make your customers happy.

Here are questions you should ask yourself as you begin:

• Where will inventory be stored?
• How often will you ship?  (daily, weekly, etc.)
• What repetitive steps can be automated first?

Always prioritize your customer satisfaction above automations.

Tips Before You Launch

A few final tips before you open your digital doors to the world:

• Use high quality product images
  • Compress the files to maintain loading times.
  • Use descriptive “alt tags” on every image.
• Test your site on Mobile and Desktop
• Make regular backups, especially before making big changes.

Launching your online store with WooCommerce doesn’t have to be overwhelming or overly expensive. Start small, scale at your pace and explore the expanding community of storefronts, business owners, extension developers, and customers that WooCommerce has.

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1. An Upgrade of Backup and Migration (Restore) Engine

In the new version, we redesigned and rewritten the entire code of backup and migration features in order to improve the tasks success rate. With the upgrade, our backup engine works more robustly on a wider range of web hosting services, and achieves a higher success rate in the meantime, especially on sites with limited server resources.

2. Added New Workflows for Exporting and Importing Website

As we are getting more and more users, some of them have reported their confusion about the current migration workflow of the plugin, because there is no clear workflow entry for corresponding operations. So in the new version we have designed separate workflows for exporting site and importing site, where we perfectly integrated and enhanced the previous migration workflow, so you can easily get started.

2.1 Export Website

Exporting site is the first step of website migration, now it works as a new separate workflow. With the new workflow, you can export the website to 3 destinations, including the localhost(web server), remote storage, and target site (previously the auto migration option).

We have also added an option of ‘1-click download of all backup parts’ (currently it only supports Chrome and Firefox browsers).

2.2 Import Website

The second step of website migration, now it also has a separate workflow. You can upload a backup to a new site, download a backup from remote storage (clone), or receive a backup from the source site (previously the auto migration option), then restore the site.

3. Re-organized Entries of Image Optimization Pro Features

In the new version, for easier use and management, we have moved Lazyload, CDN integration and Image Optimization Settings to the Image Optimization tab.

4. Upgraded Backup Retention Rules

The new backup retention rules allow you to flexibly set the number of different backup types to retain in different locations for different purpose.

5. Adjusted the ‘Custom Backup’ Section

In the new version, we have separated the exclusion rules as global rules, that means you can also set exclusion rules in the ‘WordPress+Files’ option.

6. Adjusted the Dashboard Layout

Now you can install the staging plugin and image optimization plugin directly from the dashboard.

7. Many Minor Improvements

Based on users feedback we have collected so far, we have also made many minor adjustments and improvements in the new version. Please update the plugin and check it out.

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