How to do effective SEO for open-cart website?

[gemstonebeads]

Hello Friends !! How to do effective SEO for open-cart website? We do just some on page changes like- Meta info and do some off page technique but site still not visible till last page from their keyword.

[friendhrm]

At this point I can tell you this that you need build quality links from your niche high authority pages to your site.

[sadianisar]

SEO is the same for all the type of websites. Focus more on On-Page and then Off-Page SEO techniques.

[fayeseom]

SEO plays an important role for eCommerce as this will be the one of effective ways to drive more traffic to you online shop. Other than Social Media that claimed to be the fastest way to get leads, but Social Media conversion rate is lower than SEO organic traffic where some research and survey were carried out recently.

OpenCart is a popular Open Source eCommerce platform where more and more users start building their online store with more free built-in features.

In order to enabled SEO in OpenCart, do follow below 3 steps:

Step 1: Enabled “Use SEO URL’s” in “System” > “Settings” > “Your Store” and at [Server] tab.
Step 2: Browse your project root directory, rename “.htaccess.txt” to “.htaccess”, and don’t change anything.
Step 3: Now it’s time to add SEO keyword/slug URL for each product at “Catalog” > “Products” > [Data] tab after you click ‘Edit’ for a product

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[daviddakarai]

What type os keywords are you targeting? Either Long tail or short tail ?