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Back in January, the ecommerce SEO world was full of confident
predictions.
These were the tactics we all needed to prioritise. These were
the shifts that would define 2026. These were the "must-dos" for
the year ahead.
We're a quarter of the way through the year. Enough time to
separate genuine signal from noise.
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is looking a bit thin.
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think is actually worth your attention instead.
Chasing Reddit rankings
-----------------------
Going into 2026, the advice was everywhere: Reddit is dominating
SERPs, get your brand mentioned in Reddit threads, seed
discussions, build Reddit presence.
Three months in, the shine has come off.
Google's been actively adjusting how much weight Reddit gets in
certain queries. The brands that invested heavily in Reddit
seeding strategies are seeing diminishing returns. And the ones
that tried to game it with inauthentic posting are getting
burned.
Reddit mentions still have value, particularly for brand
visibility and getting cited in AI responses. But treating Reddit
as a primary SEO channel was always going to be a short window.
If your Q1 plan had "build Reddit strategy" as a major pillar,
it's worth reassessing how much of that effort is actually
translating into revenue.
Obsessing over "GEO" as a separate discipline
---------------------------------------------
Generative Engine Optimisation is real. AI search is growing. You
should care about whether ChatGPT and Perplexity are citing your
brand.
But a lot of what I saw in January was GEO being sold as a
completely new discipline requiring completely new skills and
completely new tools.
Three months in, it's clearer than ever: it's not.
GEO is essentially about making your product data consumable by
LLMs through structured data and clear information architecture.
It's about entity relationships and how machines understand your
catalogue.
The brands getting cited in AI responses right now aren't the
ones who bought specialist GEO tools in January. They're the ones
with solid technical SEO foundations, clean product data, and
well-structured content.
Fix the fundamentals. That's still the answer.
Upper funnel content as your primary SEO play
---------------------------------------------
"We need more blog content" was the default answer to every SEO
challenge going into this year.
Q1 performance data is telling a clear story (and to be honest
this has been the case for well over a year): upper funnel
queries are increasingly being answered by AI before anyone
clicks through. Click-through rates for informational content are
getting hammered.
I'm still seeing ecommerce brands pour resources into blog
content whilst their category and product pages are a mess.
Commercial intent keywords, the queries where people actually
need to see products, compare options, and buy, that's where
organic search is still driving revenue. That gap has only
widened this year.
If your category pages aren't properly optimised for the terms
that matter, fix that before you commission another "ultimate
guide."
Pro tip: Only create content that you would happily promote
elsewhere (in newsletters, social, etc)
Chasing every algorithm update
------------------------------
Google's already pushed updates in 2026. The SEO community went
through the usual cycle - panic, theories, declared tactics dead,
declared new tactics essential.
Then things settled down and most sites ended up roughly where
they started.
Stay informed. Understand the direction of travel. But the brands
consistently winning aren't reacting to every update. They're
building sites that are fundamentally sound, good architecture,
useful content, solid technical foundations, strong brand
signals.
If your Q1 has been spent reacting to algorithm updates rather
than executing on a strategy, something's gone wrong.
Link building as your primary growth lever
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Controversial one, maybe.
Links still matter. But the ROI on traditional link building for
ecommerce has been declining for years, and nothing I've seen in
Q1 of 2026 changes that picture.
The effort and budget that goes into acquiring decent links would
often be better spent on:
* Fixing your internal linking (free, immediate impact)
* Improving your product feed for organic shopping placements
* Building genuine first-party review content
* Creating subcategory depth to capture more search demand
I've seen brands burn through significant Q1 budget on link
building whilst leaving obvious on-site opportunities untouched.
The maths still doesn't work.
Links should be a byproduct of building something worth linking
to, not a line item that consumes your entire SEO budget.
The Q2 reset
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We're a quarter of the way through the year. That's enough time
to honestly assess what's working and what isn't.
If you're still throwing budget and effort at tactics that
haven't moved the needle so far, Q2 is a good time to change
that.
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Hi friend,
Every ecommerce brand I speak to right now is worried about the
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"How do we show up in ChatGPT?"
They're hunting for hacks. Tricks. Tools that promise to boost
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Meanwhile, their Google Shopping campaigns are sitting there.
Untouched, unoptimized, and quietly unperforming.
When I look at the data for most brands I see that AI search is a
tiny sliver. Organic Shopping is roughly 100x bigger in terms of
actual traffic and revenue opportunity.
One. Hundred. Times.
AI search will continue to become more important and you should
spend some time on it. But right now, for most ecommerce brands,
it's a distraction dressed up as innovation.
The shiny object wins again.
This is the pattern I see over and over. Brands jumping from
tactic to tactic, channel to channel, never quite giving anything
the focus it needs to actually work. SEO without a strategy isn't
SEO. It's just reacting to whatever feels urgent this week.
Organic Shopping isn't sexy and it doesn't get the headlines. But
it's where the money is for product-based businesses, and almost
nobody is doing it well.
That's why I've put together a new mini-course on Organic
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The thing everyone's chasing (that barely matters)
freddie@freddiechatt.com4/14/2026
It's BrightonSEO month (let me know if you're going) - which
obviously means it's the start of summer in the UK.
And once again, the Summer of SEO will return ☀️
10 days. 10 topics. 100s of actionable tips and insights from the
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If you know of a tool or brand that would want to get in front of
thousands of SEOs and ecommerce marketers - hit reply and let me
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Ask any SEO person what the hardest part of their job is and
they'll say the same thing.
Link building.
Every survey, every poll, and every honest conversation at a
conference after the second drink. It always comes out on top.
And I get the reasons why. Because most of the advice out there
is either outdated, dodgy, or just... a lot of work. You've seen
the guest post farms dressed up as lifestyle blogs. Vague pitches
landing in your inbox. Agencies charging four figures a month to
do outreach that goes nowhere.
So brands resort to paying for links on sites nobody reads. And
somehow that still counts as a strategy in 2026!
Here's the thing I kept noticing while working with ecommerce
brands: they were sitting on something genuinely valuable and had
no idea.
The product shots and lifestyle images - the beautifully lit flat
lay for Instagram, the campaign visuals made for paid ads, the
seasonal lookbook content. Thousands of images, created at real
cost, living on a hard drive somewhere after the campaign ends.
Most brands use an image once, maybe twice, then move on.
But those images can work for years. And guess what? They can
work as link building assets.
The play is simple. You distribute your original images to
relevant publishers, bloggers, and media sites, with a usage
agreement that requires a link back to your site when they use
them. No cold pitch or begging for coverage.
You just say, "Here's something useful, and here's the credit we
need."
Publishers need good images all the time. Properly lit, high
resolution, and actually interesting. But most don't have budgets
to commission shoots for every article they write. Your product
images fill that gap.
In exchange, you get a contextual link from a real site, in real
content, to an audience that's already interested in what you
sell.
I've used this as my number one link building tactic across
multiple ecommerce clients. It's the only method I've found that
generates consistently high-value links on a semi-regular basis
without me chasing every single one.
The concept is simple but execution is where most people stall
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freddie@freddiechatt.com4/9/2026
"Our SEO is already working."
That's the most interesting kind of brief to receive.
Not "we've tried everything and nothing works."
Not "we've never invested in SEO and we're starting from
scratch."
Just: we're doing well, but we think there might be more here.
Can you take a look?
I ran the audit, and you know what? They were right on both
counts.
$1.1 million in annual SEO revenue. Strong rankings across their
core category pages. A clean site with authority built up over a
few years of wider marketing activity. By any reasonable measure,
SEO was working.
But the product catalogue had grown significantly, and the SEO
strategy hadn't kept up with it.
The brand was selling dresses in dozens of styles, colours, and
occasions. But the site structure only reflected the basics like
Women's Dresses and Women's Tops. The kind of categories you'd
set up on day one and never revisit.
Nobody was searching just for "women's dresses." They were
searching for "midi wrap dresses," "red wedding guest dresses,"
"black bodycon dress for a night out." Thousands of specific,
high-intent searches, and there was no page for any of them to
land on.
So that's where we started.
We built out 200+ new category pages — by style, by colour, by
occasion. Each one live and ready to rank from day one.
Twelve months later, they had $3.2 million in SEO revenue.
191% growth. An extra $2.1 million from the same channel. Many of
those new category pages now sit in positions one to five for
their target keywords.
Here's the thing I keep coming back to.
The brand wasn't doing anything wrong. They genuinely were doing
well. But "doing well" had become the ceiling when it should have
been the floor.
$1.1 million wasn't proof that SEO was finished. It was proof
that the foundations were solid enough to build something much
bigger on top of.
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strategy isn't broken, but it's not finished, either.
These are the kinds of businesses I work with — the kind of
problems I can help you solve. We start with a proper audit,
clear strategy, and the execution to back it up.
If that sounds like you, reply to this email and tell me about
the brand. I'll give you an honest answer on whether or not I can
help.
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freddie@freddiechatt.com4/7/2026
Hello April 🌻☀️🐝
Q2 is here. I've been wrapping up some monthly updates today
(hence a slight delay in the usual send time)
Two clients had their best-ever organic search revenue months in
March (🤯), both of which we've been working with for just over a
year, and the growth curve has ticked up and up, and it's a joy
to see.
How was your March performance? Reply with a letter:
* A = Fantastic, all cylinders flying and sales are up
* B = Average, we're getting by
* C = Everything's on fire and we need help
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It’s not enough to simply tick off a list of on-page SEO signals
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You need to provide a great user experience if you want to rank
pages consistently and drive sales and revenue.
For ecommerce stores, this means building trust as much as
possible so that someone doesn’t question whether they will
receive their product or not.
Here are a few easy ways to start building trust with your
customers as an ecommerce store:
Customer Reviews
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The no brainer. What is better than showing to users (and Google)
that you have a boatload of raving fans.
And the best part about reviews is that it has your customers
using the words/phrases that your audience will be using - a
fantastic way to increasing your chances of ranking for long tail
variations.
Q&A / FAQs
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Underrated by many ecommerce brands, but giving the option for
prospective customers to ask questions can do two things:
* Help you understand what information is missing on this product
page (and therefore add it, and include it on others if
relevant).
* Basically build an FAQ section for each product page for you.
It adds more relevant copy to the page, again boost your chances
of ranking further.
Payment Options
---------------
This one is remarkably big on the CRO side but Google also rates
this and it's often a requirement for being able to appear in
Google Shopping.
Most platforms make this super easy to add onto pages (or at the
very least in the footer) so get it done and reap the benefits.
Warranty / Guarantee
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Give assurances that your product is quality. Shout your warranty
loud, don't hide it 'just in case it gets abuse'.
Be proud of offering this to customers.
Delivery & Returns Policy
-------------------------
It might seem basic and if people don't know when they'll get it,
they won't buy it.
And with the leading reason for checkout abandons being
unexpected shipping costs, giving this information up-front is
more important than ever.
Likewise, returns. Buying online is a risk if you haven't had the
product before, be clear with your returns policy.
As Seen On
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More and more social proof will help convert and showcase to
search engines that the product is popular, quality and worth of
ranking well.
As you get press features, get them added in. These short quotes
on Crossnet look fantastic.
UGC
---
Nothing sells a product better than seeing others using it and
having a good time or getting the results they want.
Put things in place to collect UGC, whether directly on social or
through submitting it to you. Showcase the best ones on your
product page to show your product in all it's glory.
You'll have noticed that a lot of these (if not all) factors have
a potentially significant impact on conversion rates too.
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Common SEO mistakes in new/small stores
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If your store is new or small, your challenges are very different
to those of stores with a lot of products, you'll need to focus
more on a content-led approach whilst still capitalising on
commercial opportunities.
Targeting too competitive keywords
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Stop just naming your collection pages something generic like
‘necklaces’ - you aren't Tiffany - you aren't going to rank.
What is your USP?
Why are you different?
What is your audience searching for?
If you sell waterproof jewelry…
* Make sure ‘waterproof’ is in the page title
* Make sure ‘waterproof’ is in the H1
* Make sure you mention ‘waterproof’ in the description
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Not focusing heavily on reviews
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Underoptimising category pages
------------------------------
You aren't Wayfair, you can't just create a new category page and
be ranking tomorrow.
So make sure you aren't just setting them live and hoping for the
best.
* Have a target keyword in mind
* Write that click-worthy page title
* Include a description above the fold
* Add helpful content below the fold
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Not fixing the Shopify product URL issue
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or the whole thing can go wrong.
Out of control faceted navigation
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Imagine having 4000 products, 200 categories, a handful of blog
posts and other pages.
Yet Google is over here, crawling your site into oblivion.
Finding over 2 million pages, and indexing over 120,000 that
really shouldn't be indexed.
The cause, almost every time, is faceted navigation gone wild.
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Still not fixing the Shopify product URL issue
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Yes, this one is not just a new store problem.
And when it gets fixed on bigger stores.
You get really big returns.
So just get it fixed. Thanks.
Letting expired products get out of hand
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You should have a process every time a product expires
(discontinued and runs out of stock). These products will often
have backlinks where they've been featured in publications,
product round ups, gift guides, etc.
Preserving that link authority and letting it flow to relevant
pages keep the benefit of the link authority and even boost the
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Focusing on the wrong area
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I used to brag about a million visitors a year, friend. Then I
looked at what they were actually worth.
It’s about £2,000.
A million people. Two grand. That's roughly 0.2p per visitor, if
you're being generous with the maths.
At the time, I was running SEO in-house at Amara, a luxury
homeware brand. And I'd built what I genuinely believed was one
of the best things we had going: the blog.
It was ranking for everything: interior design tips, gift guides,
trend roundups. Traffic was climbing month after month, and I
loved pointing at that graph in meetings. "Look at this. Over a
million organic visitors a year from the blog alone."
I even still have the screenshot I used to gloat about (damn I
miss Universal Analytics)
It felt like proof that SEO was working and I was doing my job
well.
But nobody in the room, including me, was asking the
million-dollar question: what are those visitors actually doing
when they get here?
The answer, it turned out, was not a lot.
They'd read a post about Scandinavian kitchen trends, maybe click
through to a second article, and then leave. They weren't
browsing products or adding to basket. They certainly weren't
buying £300 vases.
I'd built a content engine that was really good at attracting
people who wanted inspiration and had absolutely no intention of
spending money.
Meanwhile, the pages that actually made money, category and
product pages, the ones ranking for things like "luxury velvet
cushions" or "designer table lamps" were getting a fraction of
the attention.
Over a few months, I realised that I wasn't optimising or
building internal links to them. I wasn't even thinking about
them that much, because their traffic numbers looked boring
compared to the blog.
Then I started digging into which pages were actually generating
revenue and realised (with much sadness) that the blog was a
vanity metric. The commercial pages were where the business
lived.
So we shifted. More time on category pages. More effort on
product page content. More internal links pointing to the pages
where people actually bought things. Less time writing articles
that made the traffic graph look impressive but did nothing for
the bottom line.
Traffic didn't go up by much. But revenue did. Significantly.
It’s a little embarrassing to admit, but that's when it clicked
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traffic, then check how many of them actually generate revenue.
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3 ways agentic commerce could change SEO
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Something significant is happening in how people find and buy
products online. And if you're an ecommerce marketer or SEO, it
affects you more directly than almost anyone else.
AI agents aren't just answering questions anymore. They're
shopping.
In the past 12 months, every major platform has moved
aggressively into what's now being called "agentic commerce", AI
that can research, compare, and in some cases complete purchases
on behalf of a user. Amazon's Rufus assistant. Google's new AI
Mode with native checkout. Perplexity's Buy with Pro. Shopify's
Agentic Storefronts. Microsoft Copilot Checkout.
The traditional path, type a query into Google, scan results,
click through to a product page, buy, is being quietly
dismantled.
The numbers are stark. Adobe reported AI-driven traffic to retail
sites surged 693% year-on-year during the 2025 holiday season.
Salesforce found AI influenced 20% of all global retail sales in
that same period. Bain projects that agentic AI could account for
25% of U.S. ecommerce sales by 2030.
This isn't a future scenario. It's happening now. And it could
force a fundamental rethink of what SEO actually is.
Here are three ways agentic commerce could change the game.
Note: This isn't intended as a doom and gloom newsletter - more
of an opportunity analysis of what might come (in the end - none
of this might happen and we all stick to just searching in
Google).
1. Product discovery is moving away from (solely) search engines
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For twenty years, the first step in any customer's purchase
journey has started with a search box. That's changing.
Research from nShift found 58% of consumers have already replaced
traditional search with generative AI for product research.
Kantar and Similarweb data shows 51% of Gen Z now start product
discovery in LLM platforms like ChatGPT or Gemini, bypassing
Google altogether. Forrester's December 2025 Consumer Pulse found
35% of Gen Z and 32% of Millennials used ChatGPT in the past
month specifically to search for products.
The platforms are moving fast to own this channel. Amazon's "Buy
for Me" feature sends an AI agent to external brand websites to
complete purchases without the consumer ever leaving the Amazon
app. It launched with 65,000 products in April 2025 and had grown
to over 500,000 by November. Google's Universal Commerce
Protocol, co-developed with Shopify, Wayfair, Target and Walmart,
now enables native checkout directly within Google's AI Mode.
Shopify has given every merchant one-click setup to sell through
ChatGPT, Perplexity and Copilot simultaneously.
The consequence for traditional SEO is uncomfortable. BrightEdge
data shows AI Overviews now trigger on 48% of all tracked
queries. Ahrefs found those Overviews correlate with a 58% lower
click-through rate for position-one content. Around 60% of Google
searches now end without a click to any website.
If your customer's AI assistant is choosing between your product
and a competitor's inside a ChatGPT conversation, your Google
ranking is irrelevant to that decision.
Be thinking about: Where your brand actually shows up when
someone asks an AI to recommend a product in your category.
Monitor AI referral traffic in GA4 as a separate channel.
Visibility Labs found ChatGPT traffic converts 31% higher than
non-branded organic, the opportunity is real for brands who show
up.
2. Structured data is replacing keywords as the primary SEO lever
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Here's the shift that hits closest to home for ecommerce SEOs.
When an AI agent evaluates your product, it doesn't read your
carefully crafted PDP copy or scroll through your lifestyle
imagery. It parses your structured data. Product data quality has
quietly shifted from operational hygiene to the single most
important factor determining whether AI agents can find,
evaluate, and recommend your products.
Shopify has been direct about this: "Product data quality is no
longer just operational hygiene, it's the prerequisite for
discoverability and conversions in the AI era." Research from
Cybez found stores achieving near-complete attribute coverage see
3 to 4x higher visibility in AI shopping recommendations. An
academic study found pages optimised for entity clarity and
structured data were cited up to 58% more often in AI-generated
summaries.
The minimum bar has risen. AI agents need comprehensive
Schema.org Product markup covering GTINs, pricing, availability,
delivery estimates, return policies, aggregate ratings, and
individual reviews. Not just visually rendered, machine-parsable.
Real-time pricing and inventory feeds. Complete, not approximate.
Forward-thinking brands are already going further, adding
structured data for sustainability attributes, compatible
accessories, and product substitutes. Google Merchant Center is
actively expanding the number of supported data attributes to
cover conversational commerce queries specifically.
Ahrefs also discovered something that flips traditional SEO logic
on its head: web mentions now outperform backlinks 3:1 for AI
Overview presence. The signal hierarchy has changed.
Be thinking about: Running a structured data audit across your
entire product catalogue. Check that JSON-LD markup includes
every available attribute, not just name and price. BrightEdge
data shows ChatGPT's crawler has already reached indexing levels
equivalent to Google Desktop. Your site is being read by AI
agents right now, whether you've optimised for them or not.
3. Brand trust needs to be built for machines, not just humans
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This one is the most uncomfortable shift for marketers who've
spent years building brand equity the traditional way.
After all this time Google saying "build for humans" and now it
seems we should be "building for the machines" 😂
When a person shops, they respond to design, storytelling,
influencer endorsements, and emotional resonance. When an AI
agent shops on that person's behalf, it evaluates structured
review data, pricing completeness, policy clarity, and how
broadly your brand is talked about across the web.
Rand Fishkin ran a landmark study in January 2026, 2,961 prompts
across ChatGPT, Claude, and Google AI, and found less than 1 in
100 runs produced the same brand recommendations. AI tools are
probability engines, not deterministic ranking systems. His
headline finding: "SEO rewards your own content. AI visibility
rewards what the entire web says about you."
For DTC brands, this has direct implications. Reviews matter more
than ever, but differently. AI agents treat review data as a
statistical confidence indicator. A product with 4.2 stars and
2,000 reviews may outperform one with 4.8 stars and 50 reviews,
because the larger sample reduces perceived risk. BrightEdge
found 34% of AI citations come from news sites and industry
publications, and nearly 10% from platforms like LinkedIn and
Reddit. Earned media and PR now directly influence whether AI
agents recommend your products.
Pricing transparency is no longer optional. If a competitor lists
pricing clearly and you don't, the agent picks the competitor.
Missing information is treated as risk.
OpenAI's recent retreat from native checkout inside ChatGPT is a
reminder that full autonomous purchasing isn't here yet, only 13
to 17% of consumers currently trust agents to complete purchases
on their behalf. But agents are already the dominant channel for
product research and discovery. That's where the influence is
being shaped, even if the final click still happens on your site.
Be thinking about: Where your brand appears across review
platforms, Reddit threads, industry publications, and third-party
sites, these are the sources AI agents cite most. Active off-site
presence now acts like the new link building. Track your brand's
share of voice in AI-generated answers as a KPI alongside
traditional rankings.
The bottom line
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Agentic commerce doesn't make SEO irrelevant; it could redefine
what it is for.
The brands that will win are the ones who recognise the shift
early: from optimising content for human readers scanning a SERP,
to building machine-readable product data, cross-web authority,
and structured trust signals that AI agents can evaluate and act
on.
The data quality, the review volume, the pricing clarity - this
is the new SEO work. And smaller DTC brands with complete,
structured product data can genuinely outperform larger
competitors with bloated, generic content. AI agents have no
inherent bias towards legacy brands.
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3 ways AI shopping agents are rewriting the SEO rulebook
freddie@freddiechatt.com3/12/2026
Hey there,
Last January, one of my clients had zero organic shopping
visibility.
None.
Their products weren't showing up in Google's product grids at
all. Meanwhile, their competitors were appearing everywhere. For
category terms, for product terms, for "best X for Y" queries.
The works.
They came to me and said: "Product grids are taking over our
SERPs and we're not in any of them."
They were right. Google has been pushing organic product grids
hard.
And if you're not in them, someone else is.
So we got to work.
We cleaned up their Merchant Center. Fixed the eligibility issues
that were silently blocking their products from even being
considered. Improved their product feed. Rewrote product titles
and descriptions. Got their schema right. Then kept enriching the
feed and product pages month after month.
Nothing fancy. No secret hack. Just a systematic approach to an
area most SEOs hand over to the paid media team and forget about.
Fast forward to January 2026.
Nearly 38,000 clicks from organic shopping. Over 2.1 million
impressions. Up 21.7% on the month before and still climbing. No
shopping ads running. Every single click is organic.
They went from invisible to generating over $100,000 a month from
a channel that didn't exist for them 12 months ago.
I'm not sharing this to show off. I'm sharing it because this is
the bit most ecommerce SEOs are sleeping on right now.
Everyone's chasing AI search. Spamming Reddit threads. Writing
self-promotional listicles to try and get cited by ChatGPT. And
sure, AI search matters. But the actual high-impact,
high-conversion opportunity sitting right in front of most
stores? Organic shopping.
It's not glamorous. It's feed optimisation, structured data, and
Merchant Center hygiene. But it works. And almost nobody is doing
it properly.
That's exactly why Callum Lockwood and I built the Master Organic
Shopping course.
Six lessons. A full optimisation framework. Checklists, a data
spreadsheet, and a step-by-step process you can apply to any
store, regardless of size or platform.
It covers everything from initial data collection through to
eligibility fixes, product schema, and how to prioritise which
products to optimise first. Basically, the same process we used
with the client above.
It's £97 and comes with a 100% money-back guarantee.
If your products aren't showing up in Google's organic shopping
grids, or you're not sure whether they even could be, this will
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The brands that figure this out early are going to have a serious
head start. Not just in organic shopping today, but in agentic
commerce as it develops. The same product data, feed quality, and
structured markup that gets you into product grids now is exactly
what AI agents will rely on when they start making purchasing
decisions.
Worth getting right sooner rather than later.
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freddie@freddiechatt.com3/10/2026
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But if there's one thing I'd want every ecommerce SEO to focus on
in 2026, it's organic shopping.
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Reddit or publishing self-promotional listicles, the biggest
opportunity is sitting right there in Google's product grids. And
most stores are leaving it entirely to their paid media team.
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It comes with a detailed checklist and optimisation datasheet so
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Just want organic shopping lessons?
freddie@freddiechatt.com3/8/2026
If you've read my newsletter long enough, you know I'm not a fan
of channel silos.
SEO in one corner. Paid search in another. Email over there doing
its own thing.
The brands quietly compounding their growth are the ones joining
the dots.
In this week's edition, we're looking at why SEO and paid search
aren't the separate disciplines most teams treat them as, and
the specific ways PPC data can make your organic strategy
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Leveraging your PPC data for SEO
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Most ecommerce teams treat SEO and PPC like separate departments
with separate budgets, separate goals, and separate people who
barely speak to each other.
That's a mistake. And the data is pretty unambiguous about it.
Here's what you're leaving on the table - and exactly how to fix
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Your PPC search terms report is a goldmine for SEO
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When Google killed granular organic keyword data and replaced it
with "(not provided)", it quietly handed the advantage to anyone
running paid search.
Your Google Ads search terms report shows you exactly which
queries are triggering clicks and, crucially, which ones are
converting. That's data your SEO tools simply cannot replicate.
Wil Reynolds at Seer Interactive ran the numbers on this.
Keywords with zero search volume in traditional SEO tools drove
750 conversions in PPC data. Meanwhile, keywords with 1,000+
monthly search volume combined produced only around 300
conversions. Think about that for a second. The queries your
keyword tool is dismissing are the ones actually driving revenue.
Do this: Pull your Google Ads search terms report filtered by
conversions over the last 90 days. Any keyword converting well
with a low organic ranking (position 4–10) is your next piece of
content to write or page to optimise. You're not guessing at
intent — you already have proof.
Use ad copy as a free A/B testing lab for your meta descriptions
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Writing meta descriptions is usually a bit of a shot in the dark.
You craft something that sounds good, publish it, and hope for
the best.
PPC flips that entirely. Your ad campaigns have been running
thousands of headline and description tests, with statistically
significant CTR data attached to every variation. That's proven
copy, sitting in your Google Ads account, doing nothing for your
organic listings.
Seer Interactive put this into practice across 10 landing pages
sitting on page one but underperforming on CTR. They pulled the
ad copy language that had historically driven high click-through
rates and rewrote the meta descriptions to match. Average result:
a 65% increase in organic CTR. Estimated revenue impact: £75,000
annually. Each audit took a few hours. Implementation took under
30 minutes per page.
Do this: In Search Console, identify pages ranking positions 1–10
with a lower-than-expected CTR. Cross-reference with your
top-performing ad headlines for those same pages or topics.
Rewrite the meta description using the language from your
best-performing ads.
Running paid and organic together adds clicks - it doesn't
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The most common objection to running both channels simultaneously
is that they just steal from each other. "We rank number one
organically, so why pay for ads on the same query?"
Google's own research across 5,300+ case studies answers this
directly. Even when you hold the #1 organic position, running
paid ads alongside it delivers 50% additional incremental clicks.
Organic does not recover that traffic when ads are paused — only
half of it comes back.
The numbers get more striking further down the page. At positions
2–4, 82% of paid ad clicks are incremental. At position 5 and
below, it's 96%. The lower your organic ranking, the more
critical paid becomes to ensure you're visible at all.
And when both channels appear together, brand recall and
consideration improve — what researchers call the "1+1=3 effect."
Do this: Link your Google Ads account to Search Console and open
the Paid & Organic Report. Filter for queries where you appear
only organically with a conversion rate above 5%. Those are your
highest-priority candidates to test paid coverage on.
The bigger picture
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Organic CTR for the #1 position has dropped 32% since AI
Overviews started appearing in search results. Paid search click
share is simultaneously doubling in key verticals.
The organic landscape is getting harder. The paid landscape is
getting more competitive. The brands winning in both are the ones
sharing data across channels — using PPC to inform SEO keyword
strategy, using SEO landing page quality to improve Quality Score
and reduce cost-per-click, and using both to dominate the SERP
rather than fighting over a single placement.
The silo doesn't just limit your data. It limits your results.
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£2.5m in revenue from SEO.
That’s what this client of mine did last year.
The year before?
Less than £500k.
That is £2m in additional (and very profitable) revenue.
Oh and for the record, to achieve these results, they were
spending just £5k/month on SEO (they now spend £11k/month as we
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Here are the main things I did with this brand to help them
achieve this result.
Money Pages - Categories & Products
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They have just under 1000 products, which were originally sitting
in about 20 category pages.
Remember my biggest SEO mistake I shared a few days ago?
Well, we went hard.
We created over 170 brand new category pages.
And spoiler, they all converted HIGHER than the original top
level category pages they had.
Turns out people searching for things like ‘red velvet cushion’
know what they want more than people searching ‘cushions’.
But creating these categories is just the first step.
You need to actually make sure Google can find, read and index
them to have any chance of ranking in the first place.
Our primary way of this… internal links.
Somehow, it is still the vastly underrated growth tactic within
SEO.
We implemented a range of tactics for dynamic internal linking,
including top-level categories linking to sub-categories (see
below for example - not from the actual brand but a fantastic
example of this).
Content strategy
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Spoiler: content still matters.
Yes, in an “AI World”, informational traffic is being lost to AI
overviews and LLMs.
But so often they still are grounded in search.
And cite their references.
So for transactional-based terms, having relevant content is
still super important.
This brand had a decent amount of content (around 300 posts) and
most were really good in theory, although quite old, outdated,
some were thin, and many were on the same topics.
So, we had some rankings but were largely struggling to really
break through to meaningful traffic.
We didn't create any new content for around 9 months, working
exclusively on improving the existing content, removing and dead
weight and cleaning things up.
They also lacked any internal links from blog posts, so we worked
through these whilst updating and republishing the content.
Link building
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Getting impactful links is hard in most industries.
The site already had decent authority, but we started adding some
in after 6 months.
We leveraged two core approaches.
→ Product-led link building
→ Image-led link building
Product-led link building included finding bloggers and
journalists who write about the products. This was broadly in the
following categories:
* They had written gift guides which included our product types
* They had written reviews of similar products
* They had written product rounds of our product types
We reached out to them and sent samples to try and get included
in future content they wrote.
Now there was a bunch of other stuff we did do, but these core
systems probably got us 90% of the way there.
We ruthlessly prioritised the best action plan each quarter and
focused.
Organic search revenue has smashed through the £200k barrier and
is now more profitable than ever.
Nothing fancy.
Just consistently, focusing on and running the systems that
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The doors to the Ecommerce SEO Bootcamp are OPEN.
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I've just added a whole module on Organic Shopping (spoiler, it's
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The 'perfect' internal linking set up
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Internal linking is one of the most underutilised levers in
ecommerce SEO. Done well, it distributes authority efficiently,
helps search engines understand your site architecture, and
guides users toward conversion. Done poorly, or not at all, you
leave rankings and revenue on the table.
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Homepage Internal Linking
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Category Linking Blocks
Your homepage typically holds the most authority on your site.
The job of homepage internal links is to distribute that
authority to your most commercially important category pages.
Create a dedicated linking block (often positioned below the hero
section or mid-page) that links to your top-level category pages.
This shouldn't just be a visual grid of images - each link needs
crawlable anchor text that includes your target keywords for
those categories.
For example, a furniture retailer might have a block titled "Shop
by Room" or "Browse Our Collections" linking to Living Room
Furniture, Bedroom Furniture, Dining Room Furniture, and so on.
The anchor text should mirror your target keywords: "Living Room
Furniture" rather than "Shop Now" or "View Collection".
Keep this block to 6-12 links maximum. If you link to everything,
you dilute the value. Prioritise categories based on commercial
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Featured Products
Featuring products on the homepage serves two purposes: it
surfaces high-margin or high-converting products to users, and it
passes homepage authority directly to product pages that might
otherwise sit several clicks deep.
Choose products strategically. Good candidates include
bestsellers with strong conversion rates, new arrivals you want
to index quickly, high-margin products worth ranking, and
products targeting competitive head terms.
Rotate featured products seasonally or based on inventory
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Navigation: The Foundation of Internal Linking
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Your main navigation is the single most powerful internal linking
mechanism on your site. Every page on your site typically
includes navigation links, meaning whatever you place in your nav
receives links from hundreds or thousands of pages.
Making Navigation Work Harder
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Structure your navigation around keyword research, not just
merchandising logic. Your category names should reflect how
people actually search. "Sofas" beats "Seating Solutions".
"Women's Running Shoes" beats "Running" nested under "Women's".
Use dropdown menus to link directly to subcategories. A mega menu
allows you to surface second and third-level categories without
requiring users (or crawlers) to click through multiple pages.
Be ruthless about what earns a navigation spot. Every link in
your nav dilutes the authority passed to other links. If a
category doesn't drive meaningful traffic or revenue, consider
removing it from main nav and linking to it through on-page
content blocks instead.
Include your most important informational pages in navigation too
- Size Guides, Buying Guides, and Help sections - but keep these
in secondary positions (footer nav or utility nav) so they don't
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Category Page Internal Linking
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Category pages are the workhorses of ecommerce SEO. They need to
link effectively in three directions: up to parent categories,
down to subcategories, and sideways to related categories.
Subcategory Linking Blocks
If your category page has child categories beneath it, create a
prominent linking block near the top of the page (above or
alongside product listings) that links to all subcategories.
For example, a "Sofas" category page should link to Corner Sofas,
2 Seater Sofas, 3 Seater Sofas, Sofa Beds, Leather Sofas, and
Fabric Sofas. Use descriptive anchor text matching your target
keywords for each subcategory.
This block serves users who want to narrow their search and
ensures crawlers can reach deeper category pages efficiently.
Position it prominently - don't bury it below 50 products where
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Associated Category Linking Blocks
This is where most ecommerce sites fall short. Beyond
subcategories, your category pages should link to thematically
related categories that users might also be interested in.
For a "Dining Tables" category, associated categories might
include Dining Chairs, Sideboards, Table Linens, and Dining Room
Lighting. These aren't parent-child relationships - they're
contextual relationships based on user intent and
room/project-based shopping behaviour.
Create a block titled something like "Complete the Look", "You
May Also Need", or "Related Categories" positioned below your
product grid. This creates lateral linking paths across your site
architecture, distributes authority to pages that might otherwise
be isolated, and keeps users on-site longer by anticipating their
needs.
Map these relationships thoughtfully. Build a matrix of which
categories relate to which others, based on complementary
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Product pages typically sit at the bottom of your site hierarchy,
receiving links from categories but often giving nothing back.
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Breadcrumb Navigation
Breadcrumbs are essential but often implemented incorrectly.
Ensure breadcrumbs are crawlable HTML links (not
JavaScript-rendered), use schema markup for breadcrumbs, and
include the full path: Home > Category > Subcategory > Product.
Critically, if a product belongs to multiple categories, consider
which breadcrumb path makes most strategic sense - typically the
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Sofas, Blue Sofas, and Living Room Furniture.
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product pages that links to all relevant categories. This creates
valuable links back up your site hierarchy, helps users discover
related products, and signals to search engines all the relevant
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Content marketing only delivers SEO value when it's properly
integrated with your commercial pages. Every blog post should
include strategic internal links to relevant category and product
pages.
Linking to Category Pages
Within the body content of blog posts, link naturally to relevant
category pages using varied but keyword-relevant anchor text.
A blog post about "How to Choose the Perfect Dining Table" should
link to your Dining Tables category (and relevant subcategories
like Extendable Dining Tables or Oak Dining Tables) wherever
contextually appropriate. Aim for 2-4 category links per post,
depending on length.
Don't force links unnaturally. The context should make the link
helpful to readers. "If you're furnishing a smaller space, our
[compact dining tables] are designed to maximise room without
sacrificing seating" works. Random keyword stuffing doesn't.
Linking to Product Pages
Where specific products are relevant - particularly in "best of"
roundups, gift guides, or how-to content - link directly to
product pages.
A post on "10 Statement Pieces for Your Living Room" should link
to each featured product. A tutorial on "How to Style a Console
Table" can link to specific console tables and decorative
accessories.
These links pass authority to product pages that typically
struggle to earn external links, and they create direct paths
from informational intent to purchase.
Linking Structure Within Posts
Consider adding a structured linking block at the end of blog
posts - a "Shop Products Mentioned" or "Explore Related
Categories" section that consolidates all commercial links in one
scannable area. This catches users who skim to the end and
provides additional link equity beyond contextual links.
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Implementation Priorities
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If you're building this from scratch, prioritise in this order:
First, fix your navigation structure - this impacts every page
and delivers the fastest gains.
Second, add subcategory linking blocks to all category pages.
Third, implement associated category blocks on your
highest-traffic category pages, then roll out site-wide.
Fourth, audit product pages for breadcrumb implementation and add
multi-category attribution.
Fifth, create an internal linking checklist for all new blog
content and retrofit existing high-traffic posts.
Build internal linking into your processes - it shouldn't be a
one-off project but an ongoing practice embedded in how you
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The ‘Perfect’ Internal Linking Strategy for Ecommerce
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Today’s the day!
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Unlock the playbook driving 7-figure ecommerce SEO campaigns
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This is how you take any ecommerce store - no matter its size -
and turn SEO into its largest sales channel.
And to show you how, I’m going to give you a full
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me inside the Ecommerce SEO Bootcamp.
Ecommerce SEO Bootcamp has evolved into my internal playbook for
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channel.
It’s packed with the frameworks I’ve used over and over again to
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Let’s dive in!
Module 1 - Strategy (where it all begins)
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* Discover the different approaches you can take to SEO depending
on your circumstances
* Understand what your competitors are doing so you can get ahead
* Set your store up to maximise your SEO success
Module 2 - Keywords
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* Identify the high-intent keywords that you can rank for
* Use those keywords in the right way to optimise your money
pages
* Don’t make the common mistakes that can set you back years
Module 3 - On-Site SEO (the fundamentals and smart tricks)
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* Yes, your page titles still matter – and you’ll learn how to
make the most out of them in 2025
* You’ll learn my £1m SEO mistake (this still hurts)
* Leverage trust builders across your site for SEO success
Module 4 - Technical SEO
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* Technical SEO can make or break your entire SEO system
* Or it can barely need any attention at all
* Learn exactly what you need to know and when you need to know
it
* Unlock the secrets of making sure your site gets indexed
Module 5 - Content (what to and not to create)
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* Help your audience find your brand and the products you sell
* Learn the different types of content to create that actually
gets sales
* Focus on creating great content that impacts your bottom line
Module 6 - Link Building
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* Learn how to build links that drive traffic and sales as well
as authority
* Build links that won’t risk hurting your store’s traffic
* Identify opportunities to ramp up your website’s authority
quickly
* Scalable link-building systems that can drive thousands of
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* It’s new, but there are early signs of what will increase your
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* Discover the citations you need that make the biggest
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* Learn how partnerships can be huge when it comes to visibility
Module 8 - Leveraging AI
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* Work smarter, not harder with AI
* Streamline your processes and conduct analysis that would have
taken hours in just minutes
* Simple prompts that can unlock insights you didn’t realise you
could get
Module 9: Branded SEO
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* How to fill the gaps in the leaky bucket with your branded
keywords
* How to leverage branded keywords for more revenue
* A breakdown of every type of branded query you can target
Module 10: SEO Breakdowns
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* Learn from the absolute best ecommerce SEO campaigns in the
world
* Currently featuring Gymshark, Wayfair and Craftd
Module 11: Organic Shopping (new for 2026!)
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* How to optimise your Google Merchant Centre feed
* Improve your structured data for increased visibility
* Upgrade your product page content
* Build a joint-up Organic Shopping system that drives real
results
* See how AI search reshapes the world of Organic Shopping
* BONUS: Get resources to make optimising Organic Shopping easy
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Wowza! That’s a lot!
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But I wanted to make sure you understood that this isn’t just a
simple beginner's guide course - this is my entire playbook.
You get access to my entire SEO knowledge.
For only £297!
This is why I believe the Ecommerce SEO Bootcamp is the single
most valuable product on how to scale the organic search channel
for online stores.
So, if you’re looking to boost your SEO knowledge, create
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PS… Want to hear what other SEOs are saying about my SEO systems?
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[Doors Open] Ecommerce SEO Bootcamp is available again
freddie@freddiechatt.com2/25/2026
Link building can be super hard.
But is also so important to scale your SEO.
Here’s an untapped link building approach many ecommerce brands
can use.
All you need:
REALLY good lifestyle photos of your products
What to do:
* Go to Unsplash and create an account
* Upload your photos (you can only do 10/day to start with - so
start with your best)
* Head to Pixsy and create a free account
* Upload the photos you’ve uploaded to Unsplash to Pixsy
* Pixsy will then automatically find when your images are used
* Reach out to people using your images
* Get those links to boost your SEO
What you will get:
New link opportunities on autopilot.
People will continue to use your images from Unsplash and you can
keep reaching out and getting those links.
You can get links directly to product pages, category pages or
blog pages - wherever you are using the image itself.
Want more information on this approach (including the exact email
template I use), check this out 👉
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Unsplash & the passive link building opportunity
freddie@freddiechatt.com2/24/2026
Tomorrow, I'm opening the doors to the updated Ecommerce SEO
Bootcamp.
If you've been on the fence, this is your heads up.
The course has had a major update for 2026. New modules, new
lessons, and new expert-led content that goes well beyond where
it started.
Here's what's new:
AI Search Discovery - Early signals on what increases your
chances of appearing in AI search results, plus a browser
extension to reverse engineer citations.
Leveraging AI - Prompts and workflows to cut hours of analysis
down to minutes.
Organic Shopping - A full module on Google Merchant Centre
optimisation, structured data, and product page content (led by
an ecommerce SEO expert who's lived it).
SEO Breakdowns - Real campaign teardowns from brands like
Gymshark, Wayfair and Craftd, with more being added throughout
the year.
That's on top of the 50+ lessons covering strategy, keywords,
on-site, technical, content, link building and branded SEO. Plus
all the templates, trackers and SOPs you need to actually
execute.
This isn't theory. These are the same frameworks I've used to
help ecommerce brands build seven and eight-figure organic
channels.
One student put it better than I could:
"I've spent years and over $60,000 learning SEO. I could have
saved all that money and become even more profitable if I had
this course from day one."
Three ways to join:
* Bootcamp (£297) - Full course access, 50+ lessons, lifetime
updates
* Bootcamp PRO (£397) - Everything above, plus a Looker Studio
reporting dashboard, a 20-minute video audit of your site, and an
exclusive experimentation workshop
* (for Teams) SEO Accelerator (£1,495/month) - Hands-on coaching
with async Slack support, monthly calls, and team-wide course
access (only 5 spots)
Every tier comes with a full money-back guarantee. No questions
asked.
I'll send you the link to sign up tomorrow morning.
Freddie
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Shopify’s native product URL structure is less than ideal for
SEO.
This is the most common SEO issue out of the box with Shopify.
It will create multiple URLs for each product depending on which
collection it is in.
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If you use Shopify - read this!
freddie@freddiechatt.com2/21/2026
Hey there,
If you want to turn your SEO practice into a predictable revenue
engine, I’ve got something special 👀
But first, quick story:
When I stepped into my first role as an SEO, I wasn't sure what
to expect.
Sure, I had dabbled with Wordpress sites here and there.
It was a huge learning curve, and I fell in love with SEO.
A few years later, the channel had gone from almost nothing to
over £10m a year.
It wasn't a smooth journey, we had made mistakes, and we learned
A LOT.
We ran experiments, took big swings and found what exactly moves
that needle.
And that journey became a repeatable system.
Which brings me to the news.
Next week, I am opening the doors to the Ecommerce SEO Bootcamp.
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Since the doors last opened in September, there has been over 10
updated videos, 8 new SOPs added and an entire module added for
Organic Shopping (which is a much bigger opportunity than AI
Search right now).
The goal?
To become the definitive knowledge of scaling a 7-figure SEO
channel for ecommerce brands.
To show you the systems we had in place as we scaled through to a
£10m/year SEO channel.
To show you exactly what is working in SEO right now.
To show you how I'm using AI to make it even more efficient.
The Ecommerce SEO Bootcamp is a mix of videos, worksheets, and
real-world examples you can get your hands on.
You will receive a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to
grow organic search in an ecommerce brand.
Including many things I have never shared concepts of elsewhere.
Quick recap:
* Over 50 lessons on actionable concepts
* Strategic advice on when and how to implement the systems
* Packed with real-world examples for inspiration and learning
* Exactly what is working to be discovered in AI search (and
regular updates on this)
* You'll get lifetime access to the course (monthly updates)
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(Important) Ecommerce SEO Bootcamp waitlist
freddie@freddiechatt.com2/20/2026
The Ecommerce SEO Bootcamp opens its doors NEXT WEEK!.
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I want to walk you through a project I've been working on over
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A US-based fashion brand came to me in early 2024 generating $1.1
million annually from organic search. Solid numbers. Strong
visibility for their core categories. But their SEO strategy had
fallen behind the pace of their product catalogue growth, and
they knew it.
By the end of 2025, they were at $3.2 million.
That's 191% growth. An extra $2.1 million from the same channel.
Here's exactly what we did.
We started with what was already working
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The brand was ranking well for their main category pages with
relatively light optimisation. Good rankings, minimal effort
behind them. That told us everything.
Small, strategic improvements here would have an outsized impact.
So we enhanced those existing pages: more comprehensive product
descriptions at the top, buying guide content below the product
grid, better filters, schema markup. Nothing radical. Just
additions that served both users and search engines.
Rankings jumped almost immediately, and we started appearing for
secondary keywords we hadn't previously targeted.
Then we went deep on site structure
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This was the real game-changer.
The brand had the standard setup. Women's Dresses, Women's Tops,
the usual. But their catalogue could support so much more depth.
Over the course of the year, we built out 200+ new category pages
across three dimensions:
By style. Mini dresses, midi dresses, maxi dresses, bodycon,
wrap, shift.
By colour. Red dresses, black dresses, white dresses, and
variations across every major category.
By occasion. Party dresses, work dresses, wedding guest dresses,
brunch, cocktail, night out.
Each page was optimised from day one. Clear titles targeting the
specific keyword, useful buying advice for that style or
occasion, proper internal linking throughout.
We prioritised categories with the highest search demand and
lowest competition first. Many landed top-10 rankings within
weeks.
We fixed the technical issues holding things back
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Even well-established Shopify stores tend to have the same
recurring problems. This brand was no exception.
We cleaned up collection page URL parameters, fixed duplicate
product pages caused by multiple collection paths, optimised the
sitemap to remove discontinued products, and tidied up crawl
inefficiencies. None of it groundbreaking. But it removed
friction so Google could efficiently process the expanded site
structure we were building.
Internal linking became a system, not an afterthought
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With 200+ new category pages live, internal linking couldn't be
done manually. We built a dynamic strategy that automatically
connected category pages to related categories, product pages to
all relevant category variations, and blog content to the most
relevant commercial pages.
When authority started flowing in from PR work later in the year,
this system made sure it reached every corner of the site.
We layered in digital PR halfway through the year
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Fashion is competitive. To rank for the highest-volume terms, you
need links from major publications.
We ran two types of campaigns: reactive PR tapping into trending
topics for features in fashion and lifestyle publications, and
product-targeted pitching to get specific items into gift guides
and seasonal roundups.
The links flowed through to product pages, and via our internal
linking structure, lifted the authority of our new category pages
across the board.
Then we doubled down on organic shopping
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Most brands are completely sleeping on this.
We enhanced product titles and descriptions in the feed, improved
image quality and consistency, added detailed product attributes,
implemented review schema on product pages, and connected store
ratings in Google Merchant Centre.
The organic shopping grids became a meaningful revenue driver in
their own right, adding incremental revenue outside of
traditional organic clicks.
The results
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$1.1M to $3.2M in 12 months.
The category expansion proved particularly powerful. Many of
those new pages now sit in positions 1-5 for their target
keywords. Organic shopping has opened up a second revenue stream
alongside traditional organic search.
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If you're running an ecommerce brand and you've got a growing
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creating category pages for every meaningful combination of
style, colour, occasion, or use case? Most brands stop at the top
level and leave a huge amount of traffic on the table.
Map out 10 category combinations you're not currently targeting.
Find the ones with real search demand. Build them out properly
from day one. Then work down the list.
That's where the growth is.
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freddie@freddiechatt.com2/19/2026
You spend months building organic rankings for a product. You
invest in content. You earn backlinks. You get the technical SEO
right.
Then a product goes viral on TikTok or picks up press coverage,
and within 48 hours, counterfeit listings and fake storefronts
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The Speed Problem
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Here's the stat that stopped me: 57% of brands see fake accounts
or impersonation sites appear within one week of a viral moment.
24% see them within 48 hours.
Think about what that means for your organic strategy.
You've done the hard work. You've built the authority. You've
created the content that earns rankings. And then the moment your
product actually breaks through - the moment all that SEO
investment starts to pay off - counterfeiters move in and
intercept the demand you created.
They're not just on marketplaces either. They're building fake
storefronts that rank for your branded terms. They're creating
listings that appear in Google Shopping. They're showing up in
the exact searches your customers are making when they're ready
to buy.
Your brand SERP - the one you've carefully curated with your
homepage, your product pages, your content, your social profiles
- suddenly has impostors mixed in.
The AI Tax on Growth
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MarqVision called it "The AI Tax on Growth" and that framing is
spot on.
85% of brands are now dealing with AI-generated threats - fake
product listings, cloned storefronts, automated impersonation
accounts.
The tools that make it easy for legitimate businesses to create
content and build websites have also made it trivially easy for
bad actors to spin up convincing fakes at scale.
And the cost isn't theoretical. 78% of brands estimate they're
losing 5% or more of annual revenue because of it.
For an ecommerce brand doing £10 million a year, that's £500,000
minimum being diverted away from your checkout. Not because your
SEO isn't working, but because the demand your SEO creates is
being intercepted before customers reach you.
That's not a brand protection issue to hand off to your legal
team. That's a revenue leak that should keep your head of growth
up at night.
The Metric Shift That Matters
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Here's what stood out most to me though - the way the winning
brands have completely changed how they measure success.
The old approach was counting takedowns. "We removed 3,000 fake
listings this quarter." Sounds impressive. The problem? More
takedowns often just means more listings appearing. The metric
goes up when the problem gets worse. It's like measuring SEO
success by how many pages you've published rather than how much
revenue those pages drive.
The brands actually winning this fight have shifted to outcome
metrics:
* How clean is our brand SERP? When someone searches your brand
name, what percentage of the results are actually you?
* What's our saturation rate? How much of the search landscape
around your brand terms do you control versus counterfeiters?
* How much revenue did we protect? Not how many listings did we
remove, but how much demand reached our actual checkout?
* Mean time to removal - When a fake does appear, how quickly
does it disappear?
50% of brands have already made this shift. The other 50% are
still counting takedowns and wondering why things aren't getting
better.
If you're an SEO working with ecommerce brands, this framing
should feel familiar. It's the same evolution we went through
from measuring rankings to measuring revenue. The vanity metric
feels good. The outcome metric actually tells you whether you're
winning.
The AI Search Surface No One's Watching
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There's another angle here that the report touches on, and it's
one I think most ecommerce SEOs are completely ignoring.
Counterfeit content isn't just appearing in Google. It's
appearing in AI search surfaces - ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini.
When someone asks an AI assistant to recommend a product or
compare options, the sources those tools pull from can include
counterfeit listings and fake review sites.
We're all spending time thinking about how to get our brands
cited in AI responses. But how many of us are checking whether
fake versions of our brands are being cited too?
If your brand protection strategy only covers Google and Amazon,
you've got blind spots that are growing by the day.
What This Means for Ecommerce SEO Teams
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Four things I think every ecommerce brand should be doing right
now:
Quantify your "AI Tax." Pull up your brand SERP. Search your
product names. Search "[your brand] reviews." How much of what
appears is actually you? If counterfeit listings or impersonation
sites are showing up, you need to know the scale of the problem
before you can fix it.
Shift from takedown metrics to outcome metrics. If your brand
protection reporting is based on volume of removals, you're
measuring activity, not impact. Push for saturation rate, revenue
protected, and mean time to removal instead.
Monitor AI search surfaces. Search for your brand in ChatGPT,
Perplexity, and Google's AI Overviews. Are the sources being
cited legitimate? Are counterfeit pages being referenced? This is
a new attack surface that most brands haven't even started
monitoring.
Frame brand protection as revenue protection. The report found
that 66% of CFOs already support brand protection investment when
you frame it in revenue terms. Stop calling it "brand integrity"
and start calling it "organic revenue protection." The budget
conversations go very differently.
The Bigger Picture
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If you're pouring time and money into organic growth but not
protecting the brand integrity that growth depends on, you've got
a leak in the bucket.
Every ranking you earn, every piece of content you create, every
backlink you build - it all compounds the value of your brand in
search. But that compounding value also makes your brand a more
attractive target for counterfeiters.
The better your SEO works, the bigger the target on your back.
And with AI tools making it faster and cheaper than ever to
create convincing fakes, the problem is accelerating.
Brand protection isn't separate from SEO strategy. It is SEO
strategy. The brands that understand this are the ones keeping
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The “AI Tax” on your organic growth is real
freddie@freddiechatt.com2/17/2026
I am super excited to share this one with you today.
As many of you may know, I have my own ecommerce brand that I'm
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And if I wasn't terrible at stock management, we'd have hit over
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freddie@freddiechatt.com2/16/2026
SEO is a long-term investment.
But that doesn't mean you can see some results quickly.
I'll be sharing five techniques I use with clients to boost their
traffic.
Keep reading to learn more about these powerful strategies that
drive organic traffic that converts into sales for your ecommerce
brand.
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Target high-intent low-competition keywords
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Even with the best SEO agency in the world, if you are trying to
rank your site for highly competitive terms it's going to be a
struggle.
Unless you are a huge brand, you need to be more selective in the
keywords you are targeting.
Fortunately, it's actually very easy to find keywords that you
are more likely to rank for.
You need to find keywords that have domains with lower authority
ranking for them.
Once you find these, you can target them specifically and
increase your chances of getting on the first page and driving
traffic and sales.
So how do we find them?
You need Ahrefs. It makes it easy, quick, simple.
For example, if you sell cushions. Follow these steps:
* Head over to Ahrefs
* Go to the Keyword Explorer
* Search for 'cushion' and 'cushions'
Once through, head to 'Matching terms' report
And put in the following filters:
* Volume: min of 100.
* Lowest DR: [enter your DR in top 5] (or use 10 if you're brand
new)
* Exclude any terms that come up that are irrelevant (such as
competitor brands)
Once you have this list, you can then review what opportunities
you have to create dedicated product pages or collection pages
depending on the size of your product range.
This is also a great product development tip for understanding
the demand of the different types of products you sell.
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Get specific in your optimisation
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A recent client sold jewellery - amazingly designed pieces that
were waterproof.
You can swim with them or wear them to the beach and they
wouldn't tarnish.
They had some pretty good rankings for their main target keywords
of 'waterproof necklace', 'waterproof bracelet' etc.
However, they didn't even mention these on their collection
pages.
In this case we...
* Made sure ‘waterproof’ is in the page title
* Made sure ‘waterproof’ is in the H1
* Made sure you mention ‘waterproof’ in the description
And rankings boosted within a week.
Adding hundreds of extra visitors to their site and thousands of
dollars in revenue.
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Keep your site lean
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Google hates websites that clutter space with low-value pages.
* Blog tag pages
* Paginated pages
* Product tag pages
* Blog category pages
There are so so many of these around. These pages can double the
size of your site.
Remvoe them or add NoIndex tags to all of these pages, so they’re
removed from Google’s search results.
This will improve the overall value of your site and help with
keyword rankings.
Optimize For Fast Loading
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I make sure sites take less than 3 seconds to load.
Anything longer, and it’s going to struggle ranking with Google.
I’d normally hire a dev to help with this. Otherwise, I’d just do
this:
* Use a CDN
* Reduce the usage of 301 redirects.
* Minimize large images (Use plugins)
* Minify CSS & Javascript files (Use an app)
* Use premium hosts like SiteGround (not GoDaddy)
This won’t help as much as a dev will, but it’ll get a good job
done. Devs are better for the more complicated issues. Once your
site loads quicker than 3 seconds, your keyword rankings should
increase, and that’ll boost your organic traffic.
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Best X for Y Keywords
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Think of topics such as:
* best bourbon under $100
* best skincare for combination skin
* best cricket bat for beginners
* best indoor plants for bathroom
* best tequila for sipping
Whether you have a product that fits the mark perfectly or a
bunch of products that can be featured.
It works so well.
You can position your product as the perfect solution to what the
user is after.
They've already self-defined their position.
* They have a budget of $100
* They have combination skin
* They are a beginner
* They have a bathroom in need of plants
* They want to sip their tequila
But how do you find these opportunities?
Head over to your favourite keyword research tool (mine is
Ahrefs).
Put your product type/category - include the plural for more
results.
Find all terms including that original keyword and then add a
filter to include both 'best' and 'for'.
You should get a heap of opportunities.
Now choose which ones your product is perfect for and get about
creating some new content.
These keywords will likely have pretty low search volumes.
But they will have HIGH conversion rates.
There you have it! The five proven SEO strategies I used for this
client and all my other clients with DTC brands.
Even if you use just 1 of these strategies, you’ll notice a
difference in your reach and rankings.
I highly recommend using them all together as that’ll massively
increase your chances of ranking and increase your revenue
generation.
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freddie@freddiechatt.com2/14/2026
Bing just dropped something SEOs have been craving for years.
We know AI Overviews, Copilot, and ChatGPT are changing how
people find (and buy) products. But we've had zero data on
whether our content is actually being used in those answers.
That just changed. Well, partly.
Bing Webmaster Tools has launched an AI Performance dashboard,
and for the first time, we can actually see how our content shows
up in AI-generated answers. It's early days, and it's only Bing,
but this is the first real data any search engine has given us on
AI visibility.
Let's break down what it shows, what's useful, and what it means
for ecommerce sites.
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Bing has added a new AI Performance tab to Webmaster Tools (in
public preview right now). It tracks how your content is cited
across Microsoft Copilot, Bing AI summaries, and partner
integrations.
Here's what you get:
Total Citations - the number of times your content was displayed
as a source in AI-generated answers over a given period. Think of
this as your top-level "AI visibility" metric.
Average Cited Pages - how many unique pages from your site are
being cited per day, on average. Useful for understanding how
broad your AI footprint is. Are they pulling from five product
pages or fifty?
Grounding Queries - the key phrases AI used when retrieving your
content. This is the big one. It's essentially the AI equivalent
of search queries, showing you what topics and questions are
pulling your pages into AI answers.
Page-Level Citation Activity - citation counts for individual
URLs. So you can see exactly which pages are doing the heavy
lifting in AI answers, and which are being ignored.
Visibility Trends Over Time - a timeline showing how your
citation activity changes, so you can spot whether things are
heading in the right direction.
What does this mean for ecommerce?
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If you're running an online store, this data opens up some
interesting opportunities:
First, you can validate whether your key commercial pages
(category pages, buying guides, product pages) are actually being
cited in AI answers. If your competitor's buying guide is getting
cited and yours isn't, that's a content gap worth closing.
Second, grounding queries give you a window into what AI systems
think your content is about. If you're selling garden furniture
but Bing's AI is only citing you for "how to clean teak", you
might need to strengthen your commercial content around broader
purchase-intent topics.
Third, you can track whether content improvements actually move
the needle. Update a page, improve the structure, add better
product data, and then watch whether citations increase over the
following weeks.
The obvious caveat
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This is Bing, not Google. For most ecommerce sites, Google still
drives the vast majority of traffic. And Google has given us
nothing like this in Search Console. No AI Overview data, no
citation tracking, nothing.
But Bing's move sets a precedent. It shows this data can be
shared with publishers, and it puts pressure on Google to follow
suit. If you're not already verified in Bing Webmaster Tools,
now's a good time to set that up.
What I'd love to see next
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This is a solid start, but there's plenty of room to grow.
Time-based comparisons so we can see which pages and queries are
gaining or losing citations. The ability to segment by AI surface
(Copilot vs Bing AI vs partners). And grounding queries broken
down by individual page, not just site-wide.
For now though, go check it out. Bing Webmaster Tools, AI
Performance tab. It's live.
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SEO works exactly the same way.
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