BigCommerce SEO that gets your whole catalog found

Yes. BigCommerce lets you edit product, category and brand URLs, titles and meta descriptions, customize robots.txt, manage 301 redirects and generate XML sitemaps automatically. Its weak spots are faceted search URLs, thin brand and category pages, incomplete product data and scripts added over time. Those are fixable within the platform, so most stores don't need to replatform for SEO.

Our BigCommerce SEO services include a technical audit, URL structure and redirect planning, faceted search control, Stencil theme fixes, Script Manager and speed work, category and brand content, product data and schema, and Merchant Center alignment. We start with the issues costing the most revenue, then build content and links on top of a clean structure.

For most stores, the short format, with product URLs at the root, works best. It avoids duplicate paths and keeps URLs stable when you reorganize categories. The long format adds category context but ties URLs to your category structure, which makes later changes harder. On an established store, we only switch formats with a full redirect map and monitoring.

We look at which filter URLs crawlers actually hit and which filter combinations people search for. High-demand combinations become real categories or landing pages with their own copy. The rest are kept out of the index through canonical tags, noindex rules or robots.txt directives, depending on how your theme and filters generate URLs.

Yes. On headless builds, such as BigCommerce's Catalyst storefront or a custom Next.js front end, the theme no longer handles SEO basics for you. We check server-side rendering, routing, canonical tags, sitemaps, redirects, structured data and page speed, and make sure product and category data reaches the HTML that crawlers receive.

Most stores use BigCommerce's Google channel or a feed management tool. The connection is simple; the quality work is harder. We complete GTINs, MPNs and brand fields, improve titles and product types, fix disapprovals and make sure feed prices and availability match your pages and schema, which supports free listings and AI shopping results.

Rarely. Most ranking problems on BigCommerce come from structure, content and product data, not platform limits. Replatforming is expensive and carries SEO risk, so we'd only recommend it when business needs such as integrations or international setup demand it. If you do move, our migration process maps and tests every redirect before launch.

It depends on scope: catalog size, number of storefronts and markets, the state of your theme and apps, and whether we implement changes or brief your developer. We don't sell fixed packages. We quote after an audit, so the proposal reflects the work your store actually needs. A free SEO audit is a good way to see the scope first.

Structural fixes like crawl rules and redirects can show in Search Console within a few weeks of recrawling. Meaningful ranking and revenue gains usually take three to six months, and six to twelve for competitive category terms. We time new category and brand content ahead of your seasonal peaks so pages have time to rank.

No. No one can ethically guarantee #1 rankings, since search engines control their own algorithms and competitors keep improving. We commit to a prioritized plan, transparent work and monthly reporting on rankings, indexation and organic revenue, so you can judge progress on real data rather than promises.

Yes. Many BigCommerce stores already work with a design agency or in-house developers. We brief them with developer-ready tickets, review theme changes on a preview before publishing, and handle SEO-specific edits ourselves when that's simpler. We stay focused on search, so we don't compete with your existing partners for design or development work.

We report monthly on organic revenue, rankings, indexation, Core Web Vitals and Merchant Center health, with a log of work shipped and next steps. There's no lock-in contract. Engagements start with an initial three-month period, because fixes need time to be crawled and measured, then continue month to month.