Hollie Gibson, SEO Strategist

The Ultimate Guide to a Seamless CMS Migration

Building on our previous post, ‘The hidden costs of a botched site migration: Why ecommerce brands can’t afford to get it wrong’, we’re back with actionable steps to help you successfully migrate your CMS. If our last post made one thing clear, it’s that getting it right is absolutely critical!

What is a CMS?

If you have a website, chances are you’re using a CMS (Content Management System). It’s the software that powers your site, enabling you to easily create, manage, edit and publish your website content.

You might feel like your current CMS just isn’t cutting it. Maybe it’s missing key features you need, or it can’t keep up as your website grows with more content and traffic. Whatever the reason, you’ve realised it’s time for a change—and a new CMS might be the solution.

The next step is migrating to your new CMS, and it needs to be done right. A poorly executed migration can lead to broken links, duplicate content, or missing pages, causing your SEO efforts to unravel. Proper planning ensures redirects are set up correctly, preserving your site’s authority and organic performance.

Therefore what we’ve done here at Re:signal, is

Cutting through the noise: key takeaways from Google’s latest algorithm updates for ecommerce brands

Google is constantly evolving to remain the market-leading search engine, continuously adapting to try to deliver the best results for its users. This evolution is achieved through core algorithm updates, where Google makes significant changes to its algorithm and systems to ensure that it consistently provides reliable search results.

Google typically makes hundreds of updates to its algorithm each year, but most of these changes go unnoticed and are not officially confirmed by Google. However, unlike minor updates, core updates are substantial and often cause many websites to experience fluctuations in their rankings and traffic.

So what exactly are these algorithm updates, and how do they impact ecommerce brands?

7 simple steps for conducting international keyword research

As your business grows, it’s natural to set your sights on new international markets. Selling your products abroad introduces you to a whole new set of potential customers, and maybe even a new language to navigate. For us marketers, this brings up quite a few hurdles! From an SEO perspective, you have to execute a brand-new organic strategy that caters to this entirely different audience, language and culture. It might seem a bit intimidating at first! But having helped several of our clients expand into foreign markets, I can assure you it’s not as daunting as you might think.

At the foundation of every SEO strategy lies keyphrase research. This vital step allows you to delve into the minds of potential customers, understanding precisely what they’re searching for. This insight then guides the creation of content and landing pages that align with users’

An introduction to Google Analytics 4 (GA4) – What are the new features?

The time has come for us to say goodbye to Google Analytics 3 (AKA Universal Analytics) and welcome in the new version, Google Analytics 4 (GA4). The switchover is taking place on July 1st 2023, so we’ve put together an introduction to GA4, so you can feel (at least somewhat) prepared for its arrival.

What is Google Analytics 4?

Let’s start with the basics, what actually is Google Analytics 4?

GA4 is the latest (and fourth) version of Google’s Analytics free service, enabling you to measure traffic, retention, revenue, and engagement across multiple platforms. It focuses more on the holistic, entire lifecycle of a customer journey and tries to provide more data throughout, including after a customer has been acquired. This is where it really excels.

Content writing tips For ecommerce brands

Over time, Google, and other search engines have provided increased visibility for websites that offer their users ‘valuable’ or ‘good’ content. If you have an amazing product, but the content on the website fails to highlight its benefits, you’re not likely to achieve that all important sale. Great content can provide users with the information they need in order to aid them through their customer journey and increase conversions.

So what is ‘good’ content, and how can we go about writing content that search engines, and more importantly, your users will love? In this article we’ve put together some unforgettable tips on how to write great ecommerce content, to take your ecommerce website to that next level.

How To Optimise Your Website For International SEO

If you have a website and want to attract a global audience or just enter a foreign market, it’s highly important it ranks in search engines across your new market.

Alternatively, if you don’t want to sell your products internationally, but you have users that speak two or more languages in your market, you’ll need an international SEO strategy to ensure you have a good organic presence.

What Is International SEO?

International SEO is the process of optimising your website, so it appears for relevant searches for target countries and languages. On a technical level, this involves optimising for changes that indicate language and country targeting. On a content level, it involves producing localised content for your target markets. Then finally, it involves building those all-important multilingual links.

The aim is to send signals to search engines about what county and language you are targeting and this is all done through international optimisation.

6 Easy-To-Use Tools To Define Your Target Audience for SEO

We recently published a post on ‘Tips for Creating a B2B SEO Content Strategy: Key Questions to Answer.’. One of those all-important, key questions was ‘who is your target audience?’

In order to maximise the effectiveness of any SEO strategy, it is essential to understand who your target customers are. Pinpointing who your future potential clients or customers are, allows you to :

Provide greater insights into your overall SEO strategy
Helps to increase organic conversion
Creates relevant content and a tone of voice for your specific market
Helps to build more insightful keyphrase research
Helps create linking opportunities in certain niches

Defining your target audience is one of the most important steps in the future success of your business as it enables you to identify your potential (and existing) customers. Not only that, it allows you to drive website traffic from the type of customers that are more likely to convert. After all, the most successful SEO strategies understand who their audience is…

A Step-By-Step Guide To Recovering Organic Traffic After A Drop

It can be a concerning discovery for any webmaster or content marketer when they’ve experienced a drop in organic traffic and there seems to be absolutely no rhyme or reason as to why. There’s no need to panic, because we’re taking you through a step-by-step guide on what actions to take once you’ve noticed a drop in organic traffic, so you’re able to climb back to the top of those dizzy organic heights once again.

Step 1 – Check Your Google Analytics Tracking Is Working

Sometimes it might not be a loss in traffic itself, but actually a reporting issue. This can be due to a problem with the Google Analytics tracking code, any changes made to your website code can potentially create problems for the tracking code, meaning reporting issues can occur.

Make sure it correctly installed your tracking code. Go to your Google Analytics and navigate to:

Admin
Tracking Info
Tracking Code

SEO For Amazon – How To Rank Your Products Higher On Amazon

Since the creation of Amazon in 1994, there’s been no denying the retail dominance they have played in the retail market. With over 63% of all retail searches beginning on Amazon in 2021, nobody can dispute the power the retail giant has within the online market.

So, if you’re selling a product on Amazon, how do you get visibility for your product? It’s easy to assume that SEO is just for Google and other search engines but there are many Amazon SEO tactics you can adopt to ensure your product is optimised and therefore lists higher up the Amazon rankings. Failure to do this right or at all will result in less traffic and fewer sales.

To start taking you through how to effectively optimise your Amazon listing, let’s start by looking at the algorithm Amazon use:

Amazon’s Algorithm

The algorithm Amazon uses is called A9, and unlike Google, pretty much every search that’s completed has one sole purpose, transactional. This ultimately makes Amazon’s job simpler than Google’s as there is only ever one intent behind the search. This also means that Amazon places much more of a focus on key phrases, which Google has evolved to focus on less and less.

The A9 algorithm is based on just 2 main aspects:

Relevancy
Performance

By ensuring you are optimising your listing based on these 2 factors, you’ll end up converting more users. These 2 factors will be addressed in more detail later.

There has been speculation that Amazon is now using their A10 algorithm but nothing has been officially announced –

Author: Hollie Gibson