SEO mistakes that kill new ecommerce stores
One setting. Months of invisible traffic. Here’s the checklist.
Cephas Tope
Builder and certified life coach behind Cephastope. I ship the site and coach the strategy — the All-Way-In Approach.
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SEO is not a plugin. It’s whether Google can find a page that a buyer would actually use.
1. Indexing
One noindex leftover from staging. A blocked /products sitemap. A canonical pointing at the homepage. Months of “we launched” with no impressions.
Check Search Console in week one. Not after the ads budget is gone.
2. Thin category pages
A category with six products and no sentence about who it’s for will lose to a blog post. Write the positioning on the category itself.
3. No offer on the page
Ranking a page that doesn’t sell is a museum with traffic. Title, first screen, and checkout path have to finish the job SEO started.