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Handmade & Craft Store SEO Services!

Losing your best sales to Etsy? Paying commission on buyers who were looking for exactly what you make?

I specialise in SEO for handmade and craft businesses, helping makers and craft retailers earn buyers directly instead of renting them from a marketplace. Handmade is one of the few categories where the seller genuinely has something no competitor can copy: the maker, the process, the origin. Almost nobody puts it where a search engine can read it.

What I do for handmade and craft stores:

  • Rank your own product pages so buyers arrive at your store, not your marketplace listing
  • Turn the craft story, the process, materials and provenance into content that ranks
  • Solve the problem generic e-commerce SEO ignores: pieces that vary, one-offs and made-to-order stock
  • Build collection pages for how buyers actually shop craft, by use, by occasion, by technique, by origin
  • Open up international demand, which for craft is often larger than the home market
No fluff. No over-optimisation. Just buyers arriving directly instead of through a platform that takes a cut. Book a free store audit and I will show you which of your own products the marketplaces are outranking you for.
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Own Your Craft in Search, Instead of Renting It From a Marketplace!

Marketplaces are excellent at getting a maker started and terrible at letting them grow. They own the customer relationship, they take a commission on every order, and they rank for the searches your work should be ranking for. Worse, they often rank with your own photography.

That is exactly what my eCommerce SEO for handmade and craft service fixes.

The way out is not to outspend the marketplaces. It is to be more specific than they can afford to be. A platform lists a million products and describes yours in one line pulled from a form. You can explain the technique, the origin, the firing, the glaze, why the colour varies and who made it. That depth is exactly what search engines use to decide who deserves the ranking, and it is the same depth that persuades someone to buy something they cannot touch.

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Proof of Performance

Case Studies

Real data from real clients. No fluff, just measurable results.

9.61K to 20.9K Impressions, Month Two to Month Three

Newly Launched Roofing Website - Three Month SEO Stats

A brand-new roofing site with no history. Its first two months reached 9.61K impressions at an average position of 49.1. By the end of month three that had more than doubled to 20.9K impressions and the average position had improved to 40. Clicks are still small at 14, which is normal this early: a new domain earns visibility before it earns the top-of-page positions that produce clicks.

20.9KImpressions, from 9.61K
14Clicks, from 7
40Avg. Position, from 49.1
2.2xImpression Growth

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roofing website Search Console three month impressions and position growth

428K to 640K Impressions, Year on Year

Two Years of Organic Growth in Search Console

Two consecutive twelve-month windows for an online store. The first closed at 428K impressions and an average position of 9.8. The second reached 640K impressions with average position improved to 6.2, moving the catalogue from the foot of page one to the middle of it across a broad set of queries.

640KImpressions, from 428K
22.7KClicks, from 20.8K
6.2Avg. Position, from 9.8
+50%Impression Growth

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Search Console twelve month clicks and impressions growth

Every Store Metric Up ~22% in 30 Days

E-commerce Store, 30-Day Analytics Snapshot

A 30-day window for an online store selling into the US, UK, Netherlands and France. Active users, product views and completed purchases all rose by roughly a fifth against the previous period, so the extra traffic converted rather than just inflating sessions.

125KActive Users
483KProduct Views
2.7KPurchases
+22.6%Purchase Growth

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Google Analytics 30 day ecommerce users views and purchases

Flat for Nine Months, Then 732K Impressions

Topical Coverage Build for a Local Restaurant

Twelve months of Search Console for a single-location pizzeria. The first nine months sit flat: the site was there, it just did not cover enough of what people were searching for. Once the topical build landed in late May the impression line steps up and stays up, closing the year at 732K impressions and 6.5K clicks. Nothing about the business changed. The coverage did.

732KImpressions, 12 Months
6.5KClicks
9.8Avg. Position
Late MayWhere It Turns

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Search Console twelve month impressions step change after a topical coverage build

Same Reach, More Than Double the Click-Through

A Restaurant That Ranked and Was Not Clicked

This site was already on page one and taking 64,923 impressions a quarter for 251 clicks, a click-through rate of 0.39%. The rankings were fine. The search snippets were not: 61 pages had no meta description and 62 had titles too long to survive the results page. Fixing what searchers actually see lifted the twelve-month average to 0.9% on the same impression base.

0.9%CTR, from 0.39%
2.33KClicks, 12 Months
259KImpressions
9.8Avg. Position

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Search Console twelve months with flat impressions and rising clicks

11.1K to 182K Impressions in a Year

Local SEO Build, Two Six-Month Windows Compared

A local cleaning business starting from near-zero visibility. The first six months moved it to 11.1K impressions at an average position of 46.5. The six months after that took it to 182K impressions and position 28. Click-through fell from 4.2% to 0.7% along the way, which is what happens when a site starts surfacing for many more queries before it ranks high on them: the reach arrives first, the positions follow.

182KImpressions, from 11.1K
1.33KClicks, from 471
28Avg. Position, from 46.5
16xImpression Growth

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Search Console six month impressions growth for a local cleaning business

What changes when your craft store is built for search rather than for a platform

Craft buyers search unusually descriptively. They search by technique, by material, by origin, by the room it is for, by the occasion they are buying for. Those searches are lower in volume and far higher in intent than anything a marketplace competes for.

With a structured strategy, you will:

  • Rank for descriptive, high-intent searches: the craft, the technique, the material and the origin, rather than a single generic category term
  • Turn collection pages into real landing pages built around how buyers shop, by occasion, by room, by gift recipient
  • Use the making process as content, which is unique by definition and impossible for a competitor to duplicate
  • Handle one-off and made-to-order pieces without losing rankings every time something sells
  • Earn rich results with correct product markup, so price and availability show before the click
  • Reach international buyers, who for craft categories are often the majority of demand
  • Convert better by answering what buyers actually worry about: variation, fragility, shipping, authenticity

The promise: buyers who come to you directly, at full margin.

On one client store, a handmade pottery brand, this approach took Search Console impressions from 428K to 640K year on year and moved average position from 9.8 to 6.2, from the foot of page one to the middle of it across a wide set of queries.

My Handmade & Craft Store SEO Framework!

(Built for Makers Selling Direct, not for Marketplace Sellers)

I help handmade and craft businesses rank for the searches that end in an order: the technique, the material, the origin, the occasion and the gift.

My approach starts from the thing that makes craft different. Every other store sells the same products as its competitors. You do not. The whole strategy is built on making that advantage legible to a search engine instead of leaving it in an About page nobody reads.

What you get, end to end:

  • Product and collection pages built for both ranking and conversion
  • Craft-story content that doubles as topical authority
  • Stock lifecycle handling for one-offs, small batches and made-to-order
  • Technical and crawl work so search engines reach the whole catalogue
  • Reporting tied to orders and revenue, not to keyword counts

How Do My SEO Policies Keep Your Store Penalty-Safe?

Craft stores rarely get into trouble for aggressive tactics. They get into trouble for thin pages, because a maker with two hundred similar items can end up with two hundred near-identical product pages without ever intending to.

My policies are white-hat throughout, and on a craft store most of the work is careful consolidation rather than addition.

My compliance-first guardrails include:

  • No link schemes, paid networks or manufactured anchor text
  • No thin variant pages competing with one another for the same search
  • Honest availability signals, so markup never claims stock that does not exist
  • Index discipline, so search engines hold the pages that can actually take an order
  • Content written for a buyer deciding on a handmade purchase, not assembled for a crawler

Result: growth that survives core updates, on a store that carries no hidden risk.

What SEO Protocols Do I Follow for Handmade & Craft Stores?

Craft catalogues are messy by nature. Pieces vary, batches differ, some items exist once and some are made on request. Without a clear structure this becomes a pile of similar URLs competing with each other.

I map the catalogue to a taxonomy first, then build pages against it.

My structured protocol covers:

  • Full store audit: technical, crawl, on-page, catalogue structure and content
  • Intent mapping across browsing, gift buying and specific-item searches
  • Entity-based optimisation around craft, technique, material, origin and use
  • Catalogue segmentation so every collection page has a distinct reason to exist
  • Consolidation of duplicate, cannibalising and orphaned product URLs

How Do I Use Keyword Research to Attract Craft Buyers and Gift Shoppers?

Handmade has two audiences with almost no shared vocabulary. The enthusiast searches by technique, material and origin. The gift buyer searches by recipient, occasion and budget, and usually knows nothing about the craft at all.

There is also a naming problem specific to this category: the correct name for a craft is often not what buyers type. Getting that mapping right is frequently the single biggest win available.

My keyword research method includes:

  • Craft-led research: technique, material, origin, style and tradition
  • Use-led research: the room, the table, the occasion, the recipient
  • Gift-intent research, which carries most of the seasonal volume in this category
  • Naming reconciliation, matching the correct term for the craft to the words buyers use
  • Marketplace gap analysis: where Etsy and Amazon rank on your work, and where their listings are weak enough to beat

How Do I Make Your Product Pages Rank and Convert?

A handmade product page has to do something a mass-market page never does: sell an object the buyer cannot hold, that will not look exactly like the photograph, and that costs more than the machine-made equivalent sitting one search result above it.

Every one of those objections is also an opportunity for unique content.

Product page work includes:

  • Descriptions covering material, technique, dimensions, care, and honestly why pieces vary
  • Variation handled as a feature rather than hidden, which builds trust and adds unique text
  • Titles and meta descriptions built to win the click against a marketplace listing
  • Image SEO: real photography, descriptive filenames and alt text, compression that preserves the detail a craft buyer is looking for
  • The objections answered above the fold: shipping fragile goods, packaging, returns, authenticity and who made it

How Do I Fix Your Category and Collection Pages?

Collection pages have the highest ranking potential in any store and are almost always the most neglected. On a craft store they are also the pages that match how people genuinely shop, because most buyers arrive wanting a kind of thing rather than a specific item.

Collection page work includes:

  • Real content on the collections that target real demand, placed so it never buries the products
  • A structure that mirrors how buyers shop: by use, by room, by occasion, by technique
  • Gift collections built and indexed well before the season they serve
  • Internal linking from collections into the pieces that deserve the visibility
  • Empty and near-empty collections merged or removed before they drag quality down

How Do I Stop Faceted Navigation Burning Your Crawl Budget?

Filters generate URLs at a rate that surprises most store owners. A handful of filters with a few options each can produce tens of thousands of crawlable combinations from one collection, and search engines will spend their visits there rather than on your products.

The symptom looks like a content problem: new pieces take weeks to appear in search. The cause is that the crawler never got that far.

Faceted navigation work includes:

  • A full crawl to measure how many URLs your filters are actually generating
  • A rule for every facet: index it, canonicalise it, or block it
  • Promoting the handful of filter combinations with genuine demand into real landing pages
  • Blocking sort orders, session parameters and infinite combinations at the source
  • Confirming afterwards that crawl attention moved to the pages that sell

How Does My Off-Page Strategy Build Your Store's Authority?

Handmade is one of the best categories in retail for earning links, because the story is genuinely interesting. Craft, design and interiors publications actively look for makers to feature. Very few makers ever approach them.

Off-page strategy includes:

  • Editorial placements in craft, design, interiors and lifestyle publications
  • Relevance over volume: one feature in a respected design title beats fifty generic links
  • Maker and origin stories pitched as the story they actually are
  • Brand mention building, so your name appears where buyers already read
  • Reputation work across the places buyers check before ordering from an independent

How Do I Use Technical SEO to Improve Your Store's Performance?

Craft stores are image-heavy by necessity, which makes them slow by default. The photography cannot be sacrificed, because it is doing most of the selling, so the fix has to be technical rather than editorial.

Technical SEO work includes:

  • Crawl and index auditing across the whole catalogue, not a sample
  • Image delivery: modern formats, correct sizing and lazy loading without losing craft detail
  • Core Web Vitals on the templates that matter: collection, product and cart
  • Redirect and status code cleanup, which matters more here because stock retires constantly
  • Sitemaps split by type so indexing problems are visible rather than hidden

How Can Content Marketing Grow a Handmade & Craft Store?

This is where craft businesses have an advantage they almost never use. Every competitor selling mass-produced goods has to invent content. You have a real one: how the thing is made, who makes it, where the tradition comes from, why it looks the way it does.

That content ranks, earns links and sells the product at the same time, which almost nothing else does.

Content deliverables include:

  • Process and craft content: the technique, the materials, the making, the people
  • Origin and heritage content, which builds topical authority around the craft itself
  • Care and longevity guides, which capture buyers after purchase and before it
  • Styling and gift guides linking directly into collections
  • Internal linking discipline, so every piece carries the reader toward a product

What Structured Data Do I Implement for Your Products?

Product markup decides how your listing looks in the results. Price, availability and review stars visible before the click change click-through materially, and on a store that is revenue.

Structured data work includes:

  • Product, Offer and AggregateRating markup that matches what is actually on the page
  • Availability kept accurate automatically, which matters when pieces are one-offs
  • Shipping and returns detail where it qualifies for enhanced display
  • Breadcrumb markup so the result shows your category path rather than a raw URL
  • Merchant feed alignment, so organic and Shopping tell the same story

How Do I Handle One-Off Pieces, Small Batches and Made-to-Order?

This is the problem generic e-commerce SEO has no answer for. A mass-market store sells the same item a thousand times. A maker often sells a piece once, and then the page it took months to rank sits there as a dead end, or gets deleted along with every link and ranking it earned.

Lifecycle work includes:

  • A policy per state: one-off sold, small batch between runs, made to order, seasonal, retired
  • Keeping sold one-offs live as proof of work with a clear route to what is available now
  • Made-to-order pieces presented as available with honest lead times rather than out of stock
  • Redirecting genuinely retired pieces to the nearest live equivalent, never to the homepage
  • Turning high-authority sold pages into collection or archive pages that keep earning links

How Do I Track and Measure SEO Success for an Online Store?

On a store, every visit can be traced to revenue, so that is what I report rather than rankings.

Reporting and measurement includes:

  • Organic revenue, orders and conversion rate, segmented by landing page type
  • Product versus collection versus content performance, so you can see what is earning
  • Indexation health: how much of your catalogue is genuinely available to search engines
  • International performance by market, which for craft is often where the growth is
  • A monthly action plan driven by the data, not a dashboard with no decision attached

One caveat worth stating plainly: many craft stores have conversion tracking configured incorrectly or not at all, so the first month is often spent making the numbers trustworthy before anyone can act on them.

How Do I Take Your Craft Into International Markets?

For handmade goods the international market is frequently larger than the domestic one. A craft rooted in one region is often most valued by buyers on the other side of the world, and those markets are usually far less competitive.

International work includes:

  • Market selection based on real demand and on what you can realistically and safely ship
  • Hreflang implemented correctly across the catalogue, which is where most stores fail
  • Currency, duties and delivery expectations handled so the listing does not mislead
  • Localised collection and product content, not machine-translated duplicates
  • Per-market measurement, so you know which countries deserve more investment

How Do Reviews and Customer Photos Affect Your Store's SEO?

Buying handmade from an independent store is a trust decision, and reviews carry it. They also solve the variation problem better than any description can: a buyer who sees twenty photographs of the same piece in other people’s homes understands exactly what to expect.

Review strategy includes:

  • Post-purchase review requests timed to when the piece actually arrived
  • Product-level reviews, not just store-level, so individual pages qualify for rating display
  • Customer photography, which is persuasive here and adds genuinely unique page content
  • Review markup that matches what is visible on the page
  • Response handling that protects your reputation where buyers check it

Why Choose My SEO Services for Your Handmade & Craft Store?

Craft SEO is not generic e-commerce SEO with nicer photographs. It is catalogue structure for items that vary, lifecycle handling for stock that does not repeat, and turning a making process into the content advantage nobody else in your results has.

What makes my approach different:

  • Structure first: fix what stops search engines reaching your pieces before writing anything
  • The craft treated as an asset, because it is the only thing competitors cannot copy
  • Lifecycle discipline, so a sold one-off never costs you the rankings it earned
  • International from the start, since that is where craft demand often is
  • Revenue-first reporting, because a store can measure it and should

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Why Choose me for Handmade & Craft Store SEO?

What sets me apart is that I have run this exact work on a live handmade store selling internationally, not read about it.

My Expertise: I combine catalogue-level technical SEO with the commercial side of retail, so the work is judged on orders rather than on impressions.

Proven Success: On HMB Pottery, a handmade Multani blue pottery brand selling worldwide, two consecutive twelve-month windows moved Search Console impressions from 428K to 640K and average position from 9.8 to 6.2, with 22.7K clicks and active users up 116.8% year on year. The full data is on the HMB Pottery case study.

Comprehensive Services: From crawl and index control through product and collection optimisation, structured data, content, lifecycle handling and international expansion, I handle the whole store rather than one layer of it.

Choose me if you want buyers arriving directly at your work, instead of through a platform that takes a cut of every order.

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Whether you sell on Shopify, WooCommerce, Squarespace, Etsy plus your own store, or a custom build, I cover every layer of store SEO with expertise and precision. Your ultimate choice for hiring the best eCommerce SEO expert.

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What's Included in my Handmade & Craft Store SEO Services?

My SEO services cover every element that decides whether your work gets found and whether the visit turns into an order.

On-Page SEO

Improving your website’s content, headlines, images, and structure to rank higher and engage users effectively.

Technical SEO

Fixing backend elements like site speed, mobile-friendliness, secure connections, and crawl errors to enhance performance.

Off-Page SEO

Building trust and authority by earning quality backlinks, social mentions, and external brand mentions.

SEO Audit

A detailed review of your website to identify technical, on-page, and off-page SEO issues and create an improvement plan.

Local SEO

Optimizing your online presence for local searches, including Google Maps and directories, to attract nearby customers.

GBP Reinstatement

Resolving suspensions and optimizing your Google Business Profile to regain local search visibility.

Keyword Research

Discovering high-value search terms your audience uses and aligning them with your content for better rankings.

Competitor Analysis

Evaluating your competitors’ keywords, backlinks, and strategies to uncover opportunities for your growth.

Content Writing

Creating compelling, SEO-optimized blog posts, product descriptions, and web pages to attract and convert visitors.

Penalty Removal

Diagnosing and resolving issues like bad backlinks or duplicate content to recover from search engine penalties.

E-Commerce SEO

Optimizing product listings, category pages, and site navigation to drive more traffic and boost online sales.

YouTube SEO

Enhancing video titles, descriptions, tags, and thumbnails to rank higher on YouTube and in Google search results.

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You will experience tangible expansion in your rankings, traffic, and sales.

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We have helped businesses across industries build their digital presence and grow their revenue.

House DesignerInterior design and home styling specialists. We helped them dominate local search for home design services.
Office DesignerCommercial workspace design. Our SEO strategy put them in the top 3 for office fit-out searches.
Game of BricksLED lighting kits and accessories. We drove a 3x increase in organic traffic through targeted product SEO.
Care N TidyProfessional cleaning services. Our local SEO work boosted their online visibility and lead generation.
Bella PizzahhLocal restaurant chain. We helped them capture local food delivery searches and grow their customer base.
Pronto PizzaFast-casual dining brand. Our local SEO work put them at the top of near-me pizza results.
HMB PotteryHandmade Multani blue pottery. We built the online store that takes their craft beyond the local market.

Frequently Asked Questions

Most frequent questions and answers

What is SEO for a handmade or craft store?

It is the work that makes your own product and collection pages the result a buyer chooses, instead of the marketplace listing selling the same piece and charging you commission for it. For this category it also means making the craft itself legible to search engines: the technique, the material, the origin and the process.

A complete strategy usually combines:

  • Product page SEO: original descriptions, honest variation, real photography, structured data
  • Collection page SEO: turning filtered lists into pages that can actually rank
  • Technical and crawl control: faceted navigation, indexation, image delivery, speed
  • Lifecycle handling for one-offs, small batches and made-to-order stock
  • Craft-story content, which is unique by definition and earns links

Will SEO actually increase sales, or only traffic?

On a store you can prove the difference, which is why I report revenue rather than rankings. The traffic that matters is the traffic arriving on a page that can take an order.

To increase orders rather than sessions, the work focuses on:

  • Targeting buying-stage searches, not just interest in the craft
  • Landing buyers on product and collection pages rather than blog posts
  • Click-through improvement through titles, meta descriptions and rich results
  • Answering the objections that stop handmade purchases: variation, fragility, shipping, price
  • Removing friction: page speed, honest stock messaging, delivery clarity

How do I compete with Etsy and the big marketplaces?

Not on domain strength, and not on their terms. You compete on specificity and depth, which is exactly where a marketplace listing is weak.

A platform describes your work in a form field. You can explain the technique, the tradition, the materials and the maker. Search engines can tell the difference when the page is built to be found, and so can buyers.

Practically, that means:

  • Targeting descriptive, specific searches rather than broad category head terms
  • Depth on product pages that a marketplace template cannot accommodate
  • Collection pages built around how people actually shop for craft
  • Earning links from craft and design publications, where an independent can outrank a giant
  • Trust signals that answer the real question: why buy here rather than there

Most makers should keep selling on the marketplace while building the direct channel. The goal is to stop the platform being the only way anyone finds you.

Do you write product and collection page content?

Yes, and on a craft store it is the highest-value writing available, because the material is genuinely unique and almost nobody uses it properly.

Typical deliverables include:

  • Original product descriptions covering material, technique, dimensions, care and variation
  • Collection page copy that adds context without pushing the products down the page
  • Craft and process content that ranks, earns links and sells at the same time
  • Gift and styling guides that link into the catalogue
  • FAQ content on the questions that stop people ordering

My pieces are all slightly different. Is that an SEO problem?

It is a problem only if you hide it, and an advantage if you do not. Variation is the single most common reason craft buyers hesitate, and the single easiest source of genuinely unique content on the page.

How I handle it:

  • Describe the variation honestly and specifically: what changes between pieces and why
  • Structure variants so colourways and sizes consolidate rather than compete for the same search
  • Use customer photography to show the real range someone can expect to receive
  • Set expectations before purchase, which reduces returns as well as hesitation

How does site speed affect a craft store?

More than most, because craft stores are the most image-dependent sites in retail. The photography is doing the selling, so it cannot be stripped out. The work is making it fast without making it worse.

High-impact improvements usually involve:

  • Modern image formats and correct sizing, preserving the detail buyers zoom in on
  • Auditing third-party scripts, which are usually the real cause of a slow store
  • Optimising the collection and product templates specifically, since that is where buyers land
  • Layout stability, so nothing shifts under the buyer’s thumb as they tap add to basket

How long does eCommerce SEO take to work?

Store SEO often shows earlier movement than other kinds, because much of the early work is unblocking pages that already exist rather than creating new ones. Craft categories also tend to be less competitive than mass-market retail, so specific descriptive searches can move quickly. Broader category rankings and international expansion build over three to six months.

What affects the timeline most:

  • How much of your catalogue is currently indexed at all
  • The scale of the crawl problem your filters are creating
  • How much genuine content exists about the craft, versus product listings alone
  • How entrenched the marketplaces are for your specific work
  • Whether your category has seasonal gifting peaks to prepare for

How do I measure the success of an eCommerce SEO campaign?

By revenue. A store can attribute organic search to orders, so there is no reason to settle for a rankings report.

Typical KPIs include:

  • Organic revenue and orders, split by landing page type
  • Organic conversion rate, which tells you whether the traffic is the right traffic
  • Revenue per session, the number that exposes traffic growth with no commercial value
  • Catalogue indexation: how much of your work is actually findable
  • Direct versus marketplace share, the number that matters most to a maker

What SEO strategies will you use for my store?

The order depends on the audit, but the sequence is almost always structure first, then pages, then expansion. Writing content on a store that search engines cannot crawl properly is wasted effort.

Core strategies usually include:

  • Crawl and index control, starting with faceted navigation and image delivery
  • Collection page rebuilds, usually the fastest meaningful win available
  • Product page optimisation prioritised by margin and demand
  • Lifecycle rules so sold and seasonal stock stops costing you rankings
  • Craft-story content that ranks and earns links
  • International expansion once the domestic store is performing

What makes your SEO different for handmade and craft?

Three things this category has that others do not. Stock that does not repeat, so product lifecycle is a ranking issue rather than an admin task. Variation between pieces, which is usually hidden when it should be used. And a genuine story, which is the only content advantage in retail that a competitor cannot simply copy.

The difference comes from:

  • Treating one-off and made-to-order stock as a structural problem to solve, not a nuisance
  • Building the craft itself into the site architecture rather than leaving it on an About page
  • Working craft, design and interiors publications, where makers are genuinely welcome
  • Planning gift seasons far enough ahead that the pages are indexed before demand arrives

Can you help with Google Merchant Center and Shopping feeds?

Yes, and it matters more than most makers expect, because organic and Shopping draw on much of the same data. A feed that disagrees with the page causes problems in both.

Feed work typically includes:

  • Fixing disapprovals and warnings that are suppressing products entirely
  • Aligning titles and attributes with how buyers actually search
  • Keeping price and availability consistent between feed, page and structured data
  • Handling handmade items correctly, which often lack the identifiers feeds expect
  • Using Shopping data to find organic opportunities, since it shows what converts

How much does eCommerce SEO cost?

It depends on catalogue size far more than on anything else, and on how much of the craft story already exists in writing.

Pricing is usually influenced by:

  • Catalogue size and how much product copy needs writing from scratch
  • Platform and how much control you have over URLs, templates and rendering
  • The scale of the technical problem, especially crawl waste and image weight
  • How many markets and languages you want to reach
  • How entrenched the marketplaces are for your specific craft

See my pricing for the standard packages.

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