{"id":5055,"date":"2020-10-28T10:51:47","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T05:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/?p=5055"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:03:04","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T07:33:04","slug":"how-a-good-seo-strategy-can-boost-your-opencart-store-to-first-page-of-google-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/how-a-good-seo-strategy-can-boost-your-opencart-store-to-first-page-of-google-results","title":{"rendered":"How a Good SEO Strategy can Boost Your OpenCart Store to First Page of Google Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_72 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/how-a-good-seo-strategy-can-boost-your-opencart-store-to-first-page-of-google-results\/#Keyword_Research_Helps_in_Ranking\" title=\"Keyword Research Helps in Ranking:\">Keyword Research Helps in Ranking:<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/how-a-good-seo-strategy-can-boost-your-opencart-store-to-first-page-of-google-results\/#Website_Layout\" title=\"Website Layout:\">Website Layout:<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/how-a-good-seo-strategy-can-boost-your-opencart-store-to-first-page-of-google-results\/#Link_Building\" title=\"Link Building:\">Link Building:<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/how-a-good-seo-strategy-can-boost-your-opencart-store-to-first-page-of-google-results\/#Email_Marketing_Support\" title=\"Email Marketing Support:\">Email Marketing Support:<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/how-a-good-seo-strategy-can-boost-your-opencart-store-to-first-page-of-google-results\/#Website_Assessment\" title=\"Website Assessment:\">Website Assessment:<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">With ecommerce becoming the latest trends, business owners are switching to various ecommerce platforms to deliver the best shopping experience online. OpenCart is an open source platform, which enables businesses all over the globe to create feature rich ecommerce sites. It also comes with features that can be easily tailored to make your store your own. The themes and modules available can easily match your needs and you can easily customize the site accordingly and boost sales of your store.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">SEO plays a great role in every website and an ecommerce site is no exceptions. So business owners should never neglect their SEO plans as it offers great benefits:<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Keyword_Research_Helps_in_Ranking\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #008000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">Keyword Research Helps in Ranking:<\/span> <\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">If you have an <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/opencart-development\/\">OpenCart ecommerce website<\/a><\/span>, then getting a higher ranking on Google is important and if you are not ranking for some specific keywords, then you will not get any good results. Based on this, it is imperative to hire an SEO service provider to do extensive keyword research for your OpenCart store. A thorough search helps to include the keywords in the meta titles, CTAs, meta descriptions and other web content like the product descriptions and this helps to attain higher visibility when shoppers search using the chosen keywords. Choosing both short and long tail keywords and placing them appropriately helps to boost the ranking.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Website_Layout\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #008000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">Website Layout:<\/span> <\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Another main reason why your OpenCart store may fail to perform is because of its layout of the site. Some friction points often restrict from completing a purchase resulting in in the high cart abandonment rate. Hiring SEO experts will help to monitor the software and understand how shoppers interact with various pages. They can easily make the recommendations and implement them to supercharge the OpenCart store.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"box-shadow: 0 0 16px #cccccc; padding: 10px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Also Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"\/blog\/the-benefits-of-progressive-web-app-in-opencart-ecommerce-website\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The Benefits of Progressive Web App in OpenCart Ecommerce Website<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Link_Building\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #008000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">Link Building:<\/span> <\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">A backlink is considered to be Google\u2019s strongest ecommerce ranking factors. So, if you have more outbound links, then you have higher chances of your OpenCart website to be listed at the top. As an OpenCart store owner, you may not find ample time to write guest posts and distribute. So hiring an SEO agency for your sites will help you create and submit the guest posts with the links pointing back to the store. Websites with best link building strategies are often the ones with high ranking.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Email_Marketing_Support\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #008000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">Email Marketing Support:<\/span> <\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">With email marketing being an important part of content marketing strategies, it will also help your <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/opencart-development\/\">OpenCart development<\/a> <\/span>store to take it to the next level. But for it to succeed, you need to create emails for your potential customers and then reach out to them on a regular basis via the email. Professional writers can easily create emails, newsletters, CTAS and guide you when to send the emails and to whom.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Website_Assessment\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #008000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">Website Assessment:<\/span> <\/strong><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Your OpenCart website should be frequently assessed to determine its performance and hiring an SEO agency helps to carry out a thorough assessment of the site and make necessary adjustments. A proper content audit will help to improve the content and make it more engaging. At times too many images that are not optimized properly can reduce the website speed. 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