SEO Consultancy
Shopify SEO Expert
Hire a specialist Shopify SEO Consultant who can help audit, fix & implement Shopify SEO services.
Shopify SEO Consultant
Increase Sales Through Your Shopify eCommerce Website.
With over 100K LinkedIn followers and years of hands-on experience optimising Shopify stores, I help ecommerce & shopify businesses fix the technical SEO problems that are silently killing their organic visibility.
Shopify powers over 5.5 million active stores worldwide and holds roughly 28% of the US ecommerce market making it the dominant force in online retail. But that dominance comes with a problem: most Shopify deployments are not optimised out of the box, and the platform’s default setup introduces SEO issues that most store owners don’t even know they have.
This is where my Shopify SEO Expertise comes in – I am well versed in all aspects of Shopify SEO from addressing out of the box canonical issues through to theme & SEO add on issues, Liquid theme & filter issues + lots more!.
Just some of the Shopify SEO Issues I regularly deal with include duplicate content from tagged and vendor pages, poor URL structures forced by Shopify’s /collections/ and /products/ hierarchy, thin auto-generated category pages, crawl budget wasted on faceted navigation, and cannibalisation between collection pages and blog content, these are the issues I deal with daily.
They don’t show up as obvious errors. They quietly suppress your rankings while your competitors take the traffic you should be getting.
If your Shopify store isn’t ranking where it should, or your organic traffic has plateaued despite regular content investment, there’s almost certainly a technical reason. That’s where I come in. I don’t offer generic Shopify SEO packages I audit, diagnose and fix the specific structural problems holding your store back.
Could I be your next Shopify SEO Expert?
My name is Daniel Foley Carter, I have over 25+ years of SEO experience delivering SEO strategies for small, medium and large organisations globally. I’ve helped Shopify businesses to audit, fix & drive SEO growth.
Shopify SEO Services I Offer
I offer an array of Shopify Search Engine Optimisation Services designed to get your eCommerce website ranking for relevant keyword and category based searches.
I offer a full range of shopify optimisation services from auditing to advanced theme.liquid optimisations. Some of the core services I offer include:
Technical SEO & Site Architecture
- Full Shopify SEO audits covering crawlability, indexation, and rendering
- URL structure optimisation (resolving /collections/, /products/ and variant URL conflicts)
- Duplicate content and cannibalisation resolution across collections, tags, and vendor pages
- Crawl budget management — blocking low-value faceted navigation and pagination from indexing
- Core Web Vitals and page speed optimisation (theme code, app bloat, image delivery, lazy loading)
- International SEO setup — hreflang, multi-currency, and Shopify Markets configuration
- Managing Shopify indexing and non-indexed page reasons
Search Visibility & Structured Data
- Product and collection structured data (Product, Offer, AggregateRating, BreadcrumbList, FAQPage)
- AI Overview and LLM visibility optimisation — ensuring your products surface in AI-generated answers
- Rich result optimisation for product panels, pricing, availability, and review stars in SERPs
Apps, Theme & Configuration
- SEO app audit and configuration (identifying apps that harm performance or inject bad markup)
- Theme.liquid and Shopify 2.0 section/block customisation for SEO requirements
- Robots.txt and sitemap configuration via Shopify’s native controls
- Redirect management and migration planning (platform moves to/from Shopify)
Keyword Strategy & Content
- Product-level keyword research and metadata optimisation
- Collection page keyword mapping and hierarchy planning
- Content strategy for blog, buying guides, and supporting content that drives collection authority
- Content production aligned to search intent across the full purchase funnel
Off-Site & Ongoing
- Link acquisition strategy tailored to ecommerce and product pages
- Digital PR and product-led link building
- Ongoing SEO strategy, reporting, and campaign management
As an SEO expert with over 25 years of experience, I’ve dealt with all aspects of shopify store optimisation from dealing with ghost URLS and stray collections / tag URLS through to dealing with issues caused by infinite scrolling – which coincidentally isn’t great for SEO.
From start to finish, I can audit your Shopify store, identify all of the issues that are impacting your rankings (or lack thereof), implement fixes and help drive strong organic growth for your shopify website.
Through a proper strategy, testing and optimising methodology – I can ensure that all of the categories and products / collections in your store are optimised, fast, accessible and most importantly, relevant for your end users. By creating high quality relevant content, and combining it with properly structured product collections and product pages, I can ensure that your store URLS become more prominent on the first page of search engines for relevant keywords.
Good SEO is about driving relevance, trust and good user experience – I help drive your Shopify stores relevance up, making it far more likely that you’ll appear at the top of google and search engines alike for relevant keywords.
Why Choose Me As Your Shopify SEO Expert?
I am recognised and reputable with over 25 years SEO experience delivering strong retail eCommerce sales for business across the UK & globally.
I have over 25 years of SEO experience as a consultant delivering bespoke search engine marketing strategies for e commerce businesses. I have a large portfolio of successful case studies reflecting strong e commerce growth as a result of my seo services.
There are thousands of shopify SEO experts to choose from, but few have the same level of experience or establishment.
I’ve delivered £ millions of pounds of increased revenue through online shop digital marketing strategies, either running SEO or both SEO and PPC as part of a hybrid strategy.
Dominate search results, increase online sales and see your web shop flourish as my tried and tested SEO techniques for Shopify sites is implemented.
Key reasons to work with me:
- 25+ Years SEO Experience
- Over 100 successful SEO campaigns delivered for shopify store deployments
- No contract
- Agile methodology
- ROI driven
- Fast, Effective & Transparent
How I Helped 88Vape on Shopify
Shopify SEO Case Study
I worked with 88Vape on their SEO audit & SEO strategy. I own the SEO agency (https://www.assertive-media.co.uk) – Initially I onboarded 88Vape.com as a client, I then merged my agency in so we could run a fully fledged SEO strategy to help drive up their rankings & traffic.
Because vaping is a restrictive market in respect of advertising, SEO is the primary way that vape brands sell e-liquids, vape juices and hardware away from the high street. So, naturally for 88 Vape it was important for us to get their Shopify website ranking highly in Google.
THE CLIENT:
The client is 88vape.com, they manufacture & supply both direct to consumer via the website and direct to stores i.e. B&M. They supply a range of their own e-liquids and vape hardware.
THE CHALLENGE:
The client operates in a restricted niche from an advertising perspective – so organic is even more crucial and is cut-throat in this niche. The client had complex filters & a custom shopify theme and alongside all of that, their SKU counts are much lower than lots of higher performing competitors.
THE WORK:
I worked on 88vape.com performing an SEO audit of their Shopify website, theme & configuration. Post SEO Audit, we developed an SEO strategy and then executed it via my agency. We did full spectrum work including custom fixes to their Shopify configuration, revamps of theme pages/templates, liquid code adjustments and removal of excess add ons.
THE OUTCOME:
The clients rankings and traffic are up significantly as are product sales. Organic impressions went up over 400%, clicks over 250%, sales and conversion were up significantly, rankings for prominent keywords such as e liquids are up.
Why do I need search engine optimisation for my Shopify store?
Shopify like any content management system will often require configuring and optimisation based on your theme, website category and product setup.
With search engine optimisation, your ecommerce store can rank more prominently in search engines, meaning more of your target audience can find your site and buy your products. Without SEO, you may find that ranking performance in search engines such as Google and Bing is poorer. If you cant find your website on page 1 whilst Googling products or product categories than that is a sure fire sign that your business requires the expertise of a shopify SEO consultant.
Without site optimisation and a complementing digital marketing strategy it’s likely that your potential customers will buy from highly ranking competitors – which, isn’t good for your business, revenues or margins.
Shopify is a powerful ecommerce platform, but its default configuration introduces a set of SEO problems that most store owners never realise they have and that Shopify’s built-in settings can’t fully resolve.
Out of the box, Shopify creates duplicate content through its URL structure. Every product exists at both its canonical /products/ URL and under every collection it belongs to (e.g. /collections/summer/products/your-item). Tag pages, vendor pages, and pagination all generate additional thin or duplicate URLs that dilute your crawl budget and confuse Google about which page to rank.
Most Shopify themes also output incomplete or incorrect structured data, meaning you miss out on rich results like pricing, availability, and review stars in the SERPs.
Then there’s the performance layer. Shopify apps inject JavaScript and CSS into your theme with every install, and most store owners have 15-20 apps running. Each one adds weight. Combined with unoptimised images, render-blocking theme code, and third-party tracking scripts, the result is poor Core Web Vitals scores that directly impact your rankings.
Beyond Google, your products now need to surface in AI-generated answers across Google’s AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and other LLM-powered search tools. This requires clean structured data, strong topical authority, and content that AI systems can confidently cite — none of which Shopify handles for you.
How long will it take my shopify store to start ranking?
There are no arbritary time-frames for ranking – it will really depend on your websites current organic performance, domain authority and product coverage.
With a shopify SEO expert such as myself, most clients can start to see noticeable ranking increases during months 3 to 6, however this is very much conditional on where your website ranks currently, your target niche and equivalent product coverage.
Brand new shopify deployments will generally take longer to rank if they are on a new or weak domain (as determined by domain authority and trust). With a new website, there needs to be time for trust to be built in the brand and domain – however, for more new websites, long tail keyword opportunities are a great way to get results quickly.
For existing shopify websites, time to rank is entirely dependent on existing performance, budget and product / category or collection coverage – and can be influenced by any SEO services delivered previously either through seo shopify experts or through an seo company.
Before you hire me as your shopify seo expert, I’ll give you an initial search performance assessment which will give you insights into how long I think it will take to reach specific ranking points and the potential investment required.
How much will an SEO campaign cost?
Shopify SEO Campaigns can cost anywhere from £1000 per month to £3000 per month onwards depending on the size and scope of products to rank as well as how competitive the niche is.
SEO campaign costs will vary depending on the size of the website, volume of products, how competitive the niche is and what current search visibility performance looks like. Typical day rates for Shopify SEO start from £350.
I provide a free no oligation quote for shopify SEO services, detailing what can be done, a roadmap of work, projected ranking timeframes and a summary of quick wins.
Using an seo consultant over an SEO agency or typical SEO company can save money, allowing your business to invest more into other important aspects of the SEO campaign such as digital PR.
Will all of my technical SEO issues be fixed?
As your dedicated shopify SEO expert, I will work with your business, webmaster, developers or heads of marketing to ensure ALL technical SEO issues are dealt with. Most Shopify SEO problems are easily solvable, but, that will depend on the nature of your theme, liquid files, existing configuration and flexibility for changes.
Some of the most common SEO issues known with Shopify include:
- Inability to edit tag pages
- Canonical issues out of the box
- Filter configuration issues or lack of flexibility
- Duplicate content on various URLS from collections to tags
- Duplicate page titles and meta
- Fixed URL structure
- Fixed robots. txt
- Limited customization of pages
- Limits on page titles and meta descriptions
- Poor initial template performance including poor page speed / core web vitals, clunky theme etc.
How long will it take to fix all the SEO issues on my Shopify website?
Most fixes related to technical SEO on your site can be implemented very quickly with an agile SEO strategy. How long it will take is really dependent on the size of your shopify website and the complexity of pre-existing pages, theme and add ons used.
For most clients, a technical SEO roadmap in month 1 will highlight timeframes for resolving all on page / technical SEO issues that could be impeding your shopify rankings in search engines.
As a shopify SEO expert with over a decade of experience, I am able to implement corrective fixes to most shopify SEO issues within the first 1-2 months of the SEO campaign starting.
Advanced or more complex websites may require the addition of a shopify developer to help speed up implementation, testing and resolution of search engine optimisation issues.
Typically month 1 is reserved for fixing more essential issues relating to a websites crawlability and how easy it is for search engines like Google to crawl and index within search results.
Will I see more website traffic and sales quickly?
SEO is not instant, anyone promising overnight results on Shopify or any other platform is either running paid ads or misleading you. What I can tell you is what a realistic timeline looks like and why Shopify stores often see faster initial gains than other platforms.
Most of the Shopify stores I work with have never had a proper technical SEO audit. That means there are usually quick wins available in the first 4-8 weeks resolving duplicate content, fixing cannibalisation between collection and product pages, cleaning up structured data, and removing the dead weight that bloated apps leave behind.
These fixes often produce noticeable ranking improvements within the first couple of months because you’re removing barriers Google already wants to get past.
Broader keyword growth and traffic increases typically follow over months 3-6 as content strategy, internal linking improvements, and authority building take effect. From there, the focus shifts to compounding scaling what’s working, expanding into new product and category terms, and making sure your store is surfacing in AI Overviews and LLM-powered search alongside traditional results.
I also work on conversion rate optimisation alongside SEO, because more traffic only matters if it converts. On Shopify specifically, that means optimising collection page layouts, product page trust signals, checkout flow, and mobile experience where nearly 80% of Shopify traffic now comes from. There’s no point ranking on page one if your store loses customers at the basket.
The goal isn’t just traffic it’s revenue. Every recommendation I make ties back to commercial impact, not vanity metrics.
Can I optimise my own Shopify Store?
Of course, some businesses may not have the luxury of affording an SEO consultant to optimise a shopify website and therefore may resort to shopify SEO guides and do it yourself tutorials. There are a number of add ons that can be used to help improve performance.
Boosting SEO for your Shopify store isn’t just about understanding and implementing SEO best practices. Although this is an important component of your strategy, for the best possible results, it’s also essential to use the right tools.
You can have great content on your product pages and even in your blog (if present) but that’s simply useless if there is no traffic coming.
Learning to become an SEO specialist so that you can perform your own search engine marketing on your website is something that can take years of practice to do – this is typically why businesses big or small will hire a consultant like myself to undertake the work.
Why Work With Me?
I’m an enthusiastic, passionate and highly motivated individual with a wealth of search engine optimisation expertise spanning a wide range of eCommerce industries from home improvement products through to fitness products, health & supplement products, alcohol, clothing, tech & gadgets, vaping, home improvement & furniture retail.
I’ve helped over 100 UK businesses to significantly increase revenue and product sales through their eCommerce website.
SEO Results Delivered For Clients
Daniel Foley has delivered substantial results for businesses across a whole variety of different business verticals/niches from finance and healthcare through to education, home improvement, manufacturing and more.
Daniel Foley helped SCI MX with an SEO strategy that saw traffic growth of over 140% for hundreds of keywords around protein powder, shakes and protein snacks as well as thousands of new long-tail blog keywords. SCI-MX’s traffic profile has continued to grow throughout 2020.
Working with iProspect, Daniel Foley worked on an SEO campaign for The Open University helping to deliver a technical SEO audit alongside SEO. The Open University had seen growth of over 30% organically. Technical SEO audits helped to alleviate ranking lag.
Daniel Foley worked with Holidaycottages.co.uk on an SEO strategy to increase rankings for keyword searches across the west country from holiday cottages to dorset cottages. Daniel Foley and the marketing team were able to deliver growth of over 75%.
Let’s Get Started
Isn’t it time you had more website traffic & more organic visibility?
What Shopify SEO Tools Do People Use?
SEO Booster FREE
SEO Booster FREE is the newest app to help your store rank higher in Google’s search engine. The app provides insights and reports to help you better understand whether your SEO strategy is working as well as it should. With structured data features, auto-updates for alt text, and suggested keyword updates, this free app has many functions that can lead to a higher ranking in the SERPS (search engine results pages).
SEO Image Optimizer
SEO Image Optimizer FREE is a free service that helps you easily optimize your images so they are found more frequently in Google Image Search. If you want to give your website an edge with SEO, this app will help you do just that! A commonly overlooked SEO strategy for online buiness, image optimisation is not only good for website performance, it’ll also make sure that visitors browing google images and other image search engines can see your products amongst the gallery of items searched for.
Avada SEO
The AVADA SEO Suite app is a free tool that helps you to build parts of on-page SEO effortlessly. It is designed to optimize your website images and structure, making it most matching to the Google Search algorithm. This will help you with loading times as well as allow for easy insertion of any other information needed.
From an SEO perspective, Avada is a great way to set up and implement elements that would otherwise be reserved for more complex SEO techniques.
Is it hard to optimise a shopify website?
The answer is…….
Possibly. So, the extent of optimisation required and what can be implemented is conditional on many different things – primarily the theme you are using. Some themes come ready optimised for Google Core Web Vitals / Page Speed Insights whilst some do not, there are thousands of shopify themes such as Narrative, Simple, Debut, Supply, Brooklyn, Venture, Turbo, Boundless and more!
The CMS itself offers all the basic SEO functionality you would expect, but, for many setups there will always be something that may need customisation to THEME.LIQUID files or custom blocking to prevent GHOST URLS / Duplicate tag/collection URLS from appearing in Google’s index (this can and does lead to cannibalisation) which is bad, especially for eCommerce SEO services.
“Most Websites have basic issues that can be fixed quite quickly”
More than 80% of Shopify websites suffer from basic configuration issues, poor core web vitals, outdated SEO plugins amongst other issues.
What My Clients Say
We used Daniel Foley’s agency Assertive Media for our SEO strategy. They delivered a new website focused around our target audience along with an SEO strategy that delivered outstanding results. We are now number 1 for over 100 of our target keywords and are booked up for the rest of the year.
I have found Daniel Foley to be always only happy to help and give pointers/advise whenever it has been needed (even if it means outside of working hours to help me/us achieve deadlines etc.). His wealth of knowledge in the SEO world is incredible. We’re very pleased with the results & quality of work and saw an increase in traffic & enquiries as a result.
We used Daniel Foley & his agency to develop Can’t Pay My Fine which is a revolutionary new website to help people with free government funded support. They built the website, delivered a content strategy and have taken us from 0 visitors to over 300 clicks a day for a whole range of legal searches – overall they’ve transformed our business.
What can you expect from an SEO campaign?
With a bespoke, highly tailored digital marketing campaign to drive traffic to your Shopify eCommerce website – you can expect to see a growth in not just keyword rankings, you can expect more traffic but also to see more known keywords returning your domain. You can expect:
All crawl errors and coverage issues in search console to be fixed
All site warnings to be addresses
Pages on your website optimised correctly
Updated website content to meet end user needs
Better internal and external linking
Improved WordPress Core Web Vitals & Speed
An increase in impressions from search
An increase in Non brand clicks from search
More Sales, Leads, Enquiries, Visitors
Are you ready to start your optimisation journey?
We’re not just wordsmiths or purveyors of AMAZING content, we’re incredible content marketers with over 2 decades of experience making great digital content and getting out there in front of tens of thousands of people.
Why Work with Daniel Foley?
With over 20 years experience delivering performance search engine optimisation campaigns, Daniel Foley has significant experience in boosting local businesses visibility. From generating more social media awareness to helping brands build more trust. Whether you are looking for an SEO specialist for Small Business or even a Local SEO specialist in London – Daniel is your go-to SEO expert.
Reap all the benefits of an organic specialist without the large costs associated with digital marketing agencies.


