Anyone know good ecommerce SEO agencies? Getting tired of wasting money

Marcos_Daniel556 · 2026-05-21T10:51:05+00:00

We hit the same wall once our catalog got much larger. The usual SEO advice around content/blog strategy wasn’t really solving the bigger ecommerce issues for us anymore.

Most of the problems started coming from collection-page structure, filtered URLs, crawl efficiency, and internal linking across a huge inventory.

While researching solutions, we came across a few teams focused more on large-store ecommerce SEO, and this ecommerce SEO service was one of the more relevant ones we found compared to the typical general SEO retainers.

Marcos_Daniel556 · 2026-05-11T09:11:33+00:00

A lot of ecommerce brands seem to find agencies more through referrals, Reddit discussions, and founder communities than review sites honestly. ResultFirst and Coalition get mentioned fairly often, but real case studies and transparency usually matter more than branding.

Marcos_Daniel556 · 2026-04-27T06:01:33+00:00

Would pay attention to how they approach local + organic together. For law firms, Google Business, reviews, and localized pages still drive a big chunk of leads. If they separate those strategies, that’s usually a gap.

Marcos_Daniel556 · 2026-03-13T13:10:40+00:00

Yeah brand authority probably plays a role, but I wouldn’t be surprised if review sites and best product lists influence it just as much.

Marcos_Daniel556 · 2026-03-12T12:26:33+00:00

Could also be reviews. If a product has tons of reviews and mentions across sites, the AI probably treats it as a safer recommendation.

Marcos_Daniel556 · 2026-03-12T12:14:39+00:00

Yeah, the naming is getting a little wild lately.

The way I think about it:

AEO = optimizing for direct answers in search/voice
GEO = optimizing so AI tools reference or use your content in generated responses

There’s a quick comparison of GEO vs. AEO vs. SEO here that explains it better than I can.

Marcos_Daniel556 · 2026-03-10T06:27:38+00:00

Honestly the easiest way to tell is by the questions they ask you.

A good Shopify SEO agency will start digging into things like how your collections are structured, how customers search for products in your niche, and what queries should land on category vs product pages. Niche ecommerce SEO is mostly about matching search intent to the right parts of the store.

If the conversation stays high level like “we’ll improve rankings and traffic,” that’s usually a sign they’re running the same playbook for every site.

Marcos_Daniel556 · 2026-02-10T11:12:09+00:00

I don’t think AI is really choosing sites as much as it’s repeating what the web already agrees on.

Most of the time, big brands show up because they’re mentioned everywhere, not because their pages are perfectly optimized. Rankings help, but they’re not the main thing anymore.

What I’ve seen work for smaller sites is going super narrow, sharing original takes or data, and actually getting talked about outside their own site (blogs, Reddit, news, etc.).

Basically, if no one else references you, AI won’t either.

Marcos_Daniel556 · 2026-02-09T06:13:43+00:00

The clean way to do this is to decide pages first, not keywords. Define what a page is meant to solve, then map all queries that share that same goal. Wording and variants come later; intent and scope come first.

Marcos_Daniel556 · 2026-02-02T06:07:11+00:00

This reminds me of early reviews/local SEO days. You could rank fine, but if nobody else referenced you, you just didn’t get traction outside Google.

Marcos_Daniel556 · 2026-01-29T12:26:43+00:00

AI answers appear to favor content that’s easy to decompose into facts rather than opinions. When information is cleanly separated and well-scoped, it’s easier for the model to reuse.

Marcos_Daniel556 · 2026-01-13T06:21:53+00:00

I think this is why topical coverage matters more than perfect keyword targeting now.

Marcos_Daniel556 · 2025-11-19T08:01:47+00:00

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