E-commerce SEO

E-commerce SEO

On a catalogue of several thousand items the problem is almost never missing content, it is excess. Thousands of indexed facets, categories cannibalising each other, supplier duplicated product pages, and marketplaces occupying the top of the SERP on the same queries.

Constraints

What makes this niche hard

These points come up on almost every project of this type and set the budget before the first crawl.

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Facets out of control

Colour, size and price filters generate tens of thousands of URLs, and crawling gets lost before reaching pages that sell.

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Duplicated products

Supplier descriptions reused as is across dozens of shops leave Google no reason to pick yours.

Cannibalisation

Category, subcategory and buying guide target the same query and steal each other rankings.

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Marketplaces

Amazon and peers own product queries, so the winnable ground is usually upstream, in advice and comparison.

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End of life products

A withdrawn product leaves a page behind. Without rules the site accumulates thousands of stockless URLs.

Performance

Core Web Vitals weigh most on mobile, where a large share of catalogue visits happen.

Method

How a project runs

Same four stages as everywhere else, applied to this market.

Scoping

One hour to understand the business model, the margin per lead or per sale, and the accepted level of risk. Without that, no recommendation holds.

Output: scope, measurable goals, link budget

Diagnosis

Crawl, log files, rankings, link profile and a close look at the three competitors holding the top 3. What they actually do, not what they claim.

Output: prioritised audit and link gap estimate

Execution

Technical fixes, information architecture, content production, link acquisition. Weekly checkpoint, shared dashboard.

Output: SEO backlog run in sprints

Consolidation

Measure, cut what does not pay, reinforce what climbs. In these markets a position does not hold by itself.

Output: monthly report and budget arbitration
FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Should facets be deindexed?

Rare combinations yes. Filters with real search volume deserve a proper page instead.

What about out of stock products?

Keep the page if the item returns, otherwise redirect to the category and drop the URL from the sitemap.

How do you beat a marketplace?

Rarely head on: you win on advice, comparison and brand, then capture the conversion.

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Alban Febrer SanmartĂ­ Freelance SEO consultant · 8 years · updated 2026

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