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SEO and content for online stores, starting with the category pages that carry the traffic


Stores win search on category pages and buying guides, not on the homepage, and most stores have thin copy on both. We rewrite the categories for the terms shoppers use, write the guides that catch them a week before they buy, and publish the seasonal pages early enough to rank.

Nearest case study: UPay, a fintech: a fintech card product Google could not read went from 10 to 3,000 organic visits a month in five months.

The three things content for an online store has to get right


In the order shoppers meet them.

Fix the categories

Category copy, titles and internal links for the terms shoppers use, which are rarely the catalogue names.

Bring shoppers early

Buying guides and comparisons that catch people a week before they buy, linked into the categories.

Be ready for the season

Gift and seasonal collections published eight to twelve weeks before they are searched.

Pages and content we produce for online stores

Intro and footer copy, titles, filters that do not create duplicates.

Templates for volume, custom copy for the products with margin.

“Best X for Y” and “how to choose” pieces that feed categories.

Model versus model for the products people weigh up.

Gifting and seasonal pages, published early.

 

The pages shoppers check before paying.

Details that matter in this industry

Store SEO is mostly structure: one category page per shopper term, faceted navigation that does not spawn thousands of duplicate URLs, product schema so prices and stock show in results, and internal links from guides to categories. The technical audit covers all of it in month one.

Solevant, a software review site, shows what a content audit and refreshes do on a large catalogue of pages: 100 to 3,500 monthly visits in four months and 6,000 ranking keywords from 674, before any new link building. The same audit-first approach is where store work starts. Foundation fits most stores; Growth adds links and the guide volume a larger catalogue needs.

What content and SEO for an online store costs

The retainer that usually fits is Foundation, which runs $1,500 to $2,500 a month for clients invoiced in dollars. Where you land inside that depends on how much has to be written each month, whether links are part of it and how much technical work the site needs first; the pricing page sets out all five. Nigerian clients are priced in naira on a separate local list, not a conversion, and we give you that list on the call. A standalone audit and a content strategy are also sold as fixed projects, each credited against a retainer started within 60 days.

Retainer Price Minimum Terms Includes
Foundation
$1,500 to $2,500 a month
One-month minimum, then month to month
4 articles a month, 1,500 words each; technical fixes and on-page work

Questions online stores ask

All three, and BigCommerce. Copy goes in through the platform or by CSV with metadata and schema in place.

Forty to sixty templated descriptions a month on Growth, or fifteen custom ones for the products that matter most.

 

Yes. Currency, delivery, payment methods and the words shoppers use change by market; the map is built per market.

What to have ready for the first call

None of it has to be perfect; rough notes are enough to start, and the research in the first two weeks fills the gaps.

Recommended retainer

Foundation

Four articles a month from the questions clients ask, on-page work on the service pages, and local SEO for the office.

Related industries

B2B services

Decision-stage pages and case studies for long purchases.

Energy and utilities

Explainers and product pages for solar, power and utilities.

Construction and engineering

Project pages, service pages and technical guides that bring tenders.

All retainers

Foundation

$1,500 to $2,500 a month

Four articles a month on a fixed keyword map, technical fixes first. For a site that is not yet ranking for its own name.

Growth

$3,000 to $5,000 a month

Eight articles, link building and landing pages every month. The retainer we recommend for a site that has to rank for new terms, and the closest fit to the UPay and UEEx work.

Scale

$6,000 to $9,000 a month

Sixteen pieces a month, digital PR and a second market. For teams that already rank and want to hold the category.

Case studies

What happened, month by month, with the numbers and their sources

Four clients, four situations: two app-based sites Google could not read, an estate agency in a crowded market, and a review site that needed refreshing rather than rewriting

UPay

A fintech card product Google could not read went from 10 to 3,000 organic visits a month in five months.

10 to 3,000

organic visits a month, in five months

99 to 1

rank for “UPay”

UEEx

A crypto exchange that ranked 99th for its own name now ranks second, with 2,500 organic visits and 4,000 backlinks.

3 to 2,500

organic visits a month, in four months

99 to 2

rank for “UEEx”

Propsult Realty

A Lagos estate agency gained 150 per cent more organic traffic and 60 per cent more qualified leads.

150%

more organic traffic, to 2,500 visits a month

60%

more qualified leads

How it goes

First call to first report

Three stages, the same in every industry. Only the pages and the terms change.

01

Weeks 1 to 2

Discovery and strategy

A 30-minute call, then two weeks of research: your audience, the buying stages, competitors, and a keyword map of the terms worth ranking for. You approve the calendar before anything is written.

02

Month 1 onward

Execution

Technical fixes ship first, then the articles, pages and links on the calendar. You see every piece before it goes live, and the dashboard fills in from the first week.

03

Every Month

Measure and improve

A one-page report on the first business day of every month, with a call. What worked gets more of the budget; what did not gets dropped, in writing.

Content your shoppers will find, and trust

We will show you the closest case study and propose the retainer that fits, with the goal and the month in writing.