eCommerce SEO: How Important is SEO to Online Retailers?

Posted March 15, 2011 by Team UpCity | 5 comments

With Google’s recent crackdown on SEO practices being leveraged by large companies using “blackhat SEO”, it’s become apparent that SEO represents a tremendous opportunity for many retailers looking to get the most out of their e-commerce SEO efforts. In the infographic below, we took a closer look at which major online retailers are getting the most links, have the most trusted sites, and which sites are the most dependent on SEO traffic.

The main takeaway for your small business is that SEO is a major component of some of the most successful e-commerce sites on the Web. While this means that there is a lot of opportunity and that the extensive efforts to build links and drive traffic exerted by the companies below is certainly justifiable, JC Penney and Overstock.com should serve as cautionary tales: invest in SEO, but understand the risks involved with tactics such as paid links. (By the way, when we originally published this article, our company was named DIYSEO; we have now re-launched as UpCity. Our new platform helps businesses with all areas of inbound marketing including SEO, local, and social media. If you’re interested in learning more, consider subscribing to our free daily newsletter).

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