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London's Shopify SEO Partner

London Shopify SEO for brands fighting for visibility in the UK's most competitive digital market. London retailers span fashion, beauty, homeware and specialist B2B supplies, and we build the technical foundation and content that gets each product line ranking on its own merit.

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Population (2023)8.9 million
Key industriesFinancial and professional services · Technology, fintech and AI
How we workRemote · video calls · shared reporting
London

Shopify SEO in the UK's most competitive online market.

Roughly one in five UK businesses is registered in the capital, about 531,000 of them in March 2024, and many national retailers, marketplaces and digital-first brands run their operations from here. For a Shopify store, that means almost every product search with the city in it is contested by someone with a bigger budget and a longer history.

It also means a customer base worth fighting for. GDP per head was £69,077 in 2023, the highest of any UK region, and 95% of adults were recent internet users in the last ONS count. Our Shopify SEO work helps stores win by narrowing the fight: specific product attributes, collections built for real buying intent, and technical foundations that let a smaller catalogue punch above its weight, all within a broader eCommerce plan.

International demand adds another layer. The city received 20.9 million inbound visits in 2024, and many brands sell abroad through Shopify Markets. We make sure multi-currency and multi-language setups help rankings rather than creating duplicate pages.

Looking beyond London? Our Shopify SEO UK page covers the whole country. We also provide Shopify SEO in Manchester. Related London services include Ecommerce SEO, Shopify Development and SEO. Everything else we do here is listed under London services.

The market

Shopify SEO in London: the market in numbers.

Official figures from the ONS and the GLA. Every card names its source.

8,945,310
Residents of Greater London
ONS mid-2023 estimate, published July 2024. Source: GLA London Datastore.
about 531,000
VAT or PAYE registered businesses
19.5% of the UK total in March 2024, the most of any region. Source: ONS UK business activity, size and location.
£69,077
GDP per head in 2023
The highest of any UK ITL1 region. Source: ONS regional economic activity by GDP.
95%
Adults who are recent internet users
The highest of any UK region in 2020, against 92% nationally. Source: ONS Internet users.
Industries

Industries we help in London.

The Shopify categories under the most search pressure here, and the SEO work that suits each.

01

Fashion and accessories

London Fashion Week runs every February and September and sets the pace for trend searches. We plan drop and season collections so their URLs, links and rankings carry over, instead of starting from zero each time.

02

Interiors, homeware and garden

The Chelsea Flower Show in May and the London Design Festival in September lift searches for plants, furniture and decor. We build room and style collections with buying guides that capture that demand without thin filter pages.

03

Gifts, tea and visitor favourites

Visitors spent a record £17.3 billion in 2024. Heritage, gift and food brands can rank for shoppers before and after their trip, with international shipping pages and hreflang set up correctly in Shopify Markets.

04

Venture-backed DTC brands

Startups here raised $10.8 billion of venture capital in 2024. Fast-growing brands change ranges often, so we set up templates, internal links and redirect rules that survive frequent launches and catalogue changes.

05

Independents against the chains

Specialist retailers moving online compete with national chains for the same product terms. We focus on expertise-led product content and long-tail searches where a specialist genuinely beats a generalist.

Next step

Ready to rank where the big retailers are thin?

Book a strategy session and we will show you the product and collection searches your Shopify store can realistically win in the capital and beyond.

Get Your Strategy Session
Results

Ecommerce SEO results from our client work.

Figures from Mojo Dojo ecommerce SEO case studies worldwide, shown to illustrate the method. They are not UK client results.

214%
Increase in organic traffic
Babylon Flowers, ecommerce SEO and content marketing
111%
Increase in organic revenue
Smoked & Cured, ecommerce SEO
184%
Increase in organic traffic
Avenel Hats, ecommerce SEO
143%
Increase in conversion rate via organic
Camino Kids, 6-month campaign period
Why Shopify needs specialist SEO

Shopify quirks that hold stores back.

These Shopify defaults cost rankings in any market. Stores selling from the capital to the world usually hit one more.

Site speed
Problem

Slow loading stores

Shopify has historically been known as a platform that often loads slowly. A slow website can have a negative impact on your keyword rankings, and slow loading times lead to high bounce rates, low conversions and a poor user experience.

Solution

Shopify site speed optimisation

Our Shopify development team helps with caching, optimising larger images, minifying assets, enabling compression and modern serving technologies, and improving the overall user experience.

Faster pages, better rankings

A quicker store keeps shoppers on the page and removes a ranking handicap.

Crawling
Problem

Wasted crawl budget

Collection filters, action URLs and query parameters create pages that are not useful to your users or search engines, and they soak up crawl budget.

Solution

Shopify specific crawl fixes

We fix the Shopify quirks in the backend to disable crawling on URLs that add no value, and use the Google crawl report to pinpoint which areas of your website need improvement.

More breadth in crawling

Better crawl coverage is usually associated with higher search rankings.

Duplicate content
Problem

Duplicate product and collection URLs

Shopify can serve the same product under several URLs, which splits signals and creates duplicate content issues.

Solution

Shopify canonicalisation fixes

We apply Shopify specific canonicalisation fixes and clean up URL slugs, duplicates, the document outline and tags.

One strong page per product

Search engines rank the page you want, not a duplicate.

International
Problem

Shopify Markets creating duplicate pages

Adding currencies and country subfolders can publish near-identical copies of every product, with missing or conflicting hreflang, so Google struggles to pick which version to rank where.

Solution

Clean international setup

We audit market subfolders, hreflang and canonical tags, localise the pages that deserve it, and keep the rest from competing with your main UK pages.

The right page in each country

UK shoppers see UK pages, overseas buyers see theirs, and rankings stop splitting.

What we audit and build

Shopify technical SEO audit and link building for UK stores.

Each project begins with a full technical audit of your store and a Shopify specific list of recommendations, ranked by the revenue they can unlock.

01Shopify technical SEO audit

These audits cover a range of issues including the responsiveness of your site, structured data or schema markup on pages, collection page optimisation, product page optimisation and other query parameter fixes.

Site structure · Collection pages · Crawl budget · Query parameters · URLs and tags · Structured data · Topical relevance

02Link building

We manage the entire link building process from start to finish.

Link audit · Strategy · Content · Outreach · Internal links

All of it

Get your free London Shopify SEO audit.

Send us your Shopify store URL and within 48 hours we will return a Shopify SEO audit covering duplicate URLs, Shopify Markets setup, crawl waste and speed. No calls, no obligations.

Get My Free Audit
Areas

Areas we serve in London.

We work remotely with online stores across every part of the capital. Fashion, beauty and luxury labels in Westminster, Kensington and Chelsea, Camden and Islington make up a good share, alongside makers and independent brands in Hackney, Tower Hamlets and Newham.

South of the river we support merchants in Southwark, Lambeth, Wandsworth, Greenwich and Croydon. West and north, that includes Hammersmith and Fulham, Ealing, Brent, Barnet, Harrow and Hounslow, out to Richmond upon Thames and Kingston upon Thames. We meet by video and share every report online.

How we work

Shopify specific SEO and speed fixes.

In a market this crowded, crawl efficiency and page speed can decide who ranks. These are the Shopify fixes we look at first.

01

Product page optimisation

Product page specific optimisation including titles, descriptions and H1 to H6 tags.

02

Category optimisation

Category specific optimisation, including content that helps search engines understand the category topic.

03

Backend crawl controls

Fixing Shopify quirks in the backend to disable crawling on URLs that are not useful to your users or search engines.

04

Canonicalisation fixes

Shopify specific canonicalisation fixes to fix or avoid any duplicate content issues.

05

Theme audit

Auditing your Shopify theme for code that slows your store down.

06

Image reduction

Reducing and re-framing images so larger files stop dragging down load times.

07

Lazy loading

Lazy loading images so the content shoppers see first loads first.

08

Third party JavaScript

Limiting third party JavaScript that blocks rendering.

09

Google Tag Manager

Migrating tracking codes to Google Tag Manager for cleaner, faster pages.

Not sure where to start?

Get your free London Shopify SEO audit.

Send us your Shopify store URL and within 48 hours we will return a Shopify SEO audit covering duplicate URLs, Shopify Markets setup, crawl waste and speed. No calls, no obligations.

Get My Free Audit
How we work

How we grow organic revenue for UK Shopify stores.

Five stages from audit to compounding growth, delivered remotely with reporting you can check any day.

STEP 01

Audit and analysis

We run a technical SEO audit of your Shopify store and analyse your current SEO plan, your market and your competition.

STEP 02

Organic growth strategy

We draft an ecommerce organic growth strategy, researching the right keywords and planning a hierarchical site structure.

STEP 03

Shopify fixes and optimisation

We implement the Shopify specific fixes, speed improvements, product and collection page optimisation and structured data.

STEP 04

Content and links

We build topical relevance with a content strategy for long term growth and a link building programme matched to your site topic.

STEP 05

Tracking and iteration

We set up analytics and tracking, measure what moves rankings and revenue, and keep improving.

In depth

Why choose Mojo Dojo for your Shopify SEO services?

Over the last 15 years, Mojo Dojo has worked in over 81 different verticals, in 18 languages, and in 45 different countries, helping some of the world's most sophisticated companies run laser targeted marketing campaigns designed for greatest revenue impact.

For Shopify stores, we have also helped a number of brands with product photography, product videos, Shopify apps and integrations, email automation, branding and much more.

We have an extensive portfolio of clients, including:

  • Public venues like Luna Park
  • Market leading retail giants like Lombards and Linen House
  • Builders like PDG Group and Villawood Properties
  • International brands like Denon, HEOS and Maximizer
  • International travel brands like Accor and Novotel
Client story
“Their team understood our business before we even had to explain it. Enquiries are up 250% and the quality is better than ever.”
Lauren MitchellDirector, Morgan Insurance
94%client retention
4.8/5average rating
300+client reviews
The playbook

The framework behind the Shopify stores we grow.

Most stores are optimised for traffic. This one is about revenue, the ten changes to a store that move the number at the bottom of the report, in the order to make them.

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The Ecommerce Playbook

Free. 14 pages. In your inbox. Magic-link delivery, it arrives in about two minutes, and there's no sales call attached to reading it.

Questions

Shopify SEO FAQs for London brands.

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Do you work with London businesses?

Yes, remotely. We run strategy sessions and monthly reviews over video calls and give you shared reporting on rankings, organic traffic and revenue that you can check at any time. Everything we change happens in your Shopify store and analytics, so there is no need for a meeting space.

Is it realistic for a smaller brand to rank here?

Yes, if you choose the battles. Broad terms are held by national retailers and marketplaces, but their product pages are often generic. We target specific product, material and occasion searches, write better pages than the big players, and build authority towards broader collections over time.

Can you fix SEO for a Shopify store selling in several countries?

Yes. We regularly untangle Shopify Markets setups where currency and country subfolders create duplicate pages. We check hreflang, canonicals and indexing, decide which markets deserve localised content, and make sure your UK pages keep their rankings.

What is Shopify SEO?

Shopify SEO is the work of making a Shopify store easier for search engines to crawl, understand and rank. It covers keyword research, a hierarchical site structure, product and collection page optimisation, speed, structured data and links, plus fixes for the quirks that are specific to the Shopify platform.

Why does a Shopify store need specialist SEO?

Shopify creates duplicate product URLs, filter and action URLs that waste crawl budget, and themes that can load slowly. A general SEO plan often misses these. We apply Shopify specific canonicalisation, crawl and speed fixes alongside the usual on-page and link work.

What is included in your Shopify SEO services?

A technical SEO audit, product and collection page optimisation, Shopify specific crawl and canonicalisation fixes, site speed optimisation, structured data for products and categories, content strategy, link building, and analytics and tracking setup.

What does your Shopify technical SEO audit cover?

Site structure and site node visualisation, collection pages and crawlability, crawl budget, action URLs and query parameters, URL slugs, duplicates, document outline and tags, structured data for products and categories, and topical relevance. You get a list of recommendations specific to your store.

How do you speed up a Shopify store?

We audit your Shopify theme, reduce and re-frame images, lazy load images, limit third party JavaScript, migrate tracking codes to Google Tag Manager, and use caching, minification and compression to improve load times.

How long does Shopify SEO take to show results?

Technical fixes such as crawl controls and canonicalisation can improve crawling quickly once search engines revisit your store. Ranking and revenue growth from content and links builds over months, which is why we plan for long term growth and report on progress along the way.

Do you work with Shopify Plus and headless stores?

Yes. We work across Shopify and Shopify Plus, including headless builds with Hydrogen, and our development team can implement the technical changes our SEO audit recommends.

Can you help with link building for a Shopify store?

Yes. We run a link audit, build a link building strategy that matches your site topic, create the content needed, handle outreach and promotion, and improve internal links to distribute link equity across your collections and products.

How do you measure Shopify SEO success?

We set up analytics and tracking so you can see organic traffic, rankings, conversions and organic revenue. Our ecommerce SEO case studies report the same kinds of figures, such as organic revenue and conversion rate via organic.

Why choose Mojo Dojo as your Shopify SEO agency?

Over 15 years we have worked in over 81 verticals, 18 languages and 45 countries. We combine Shopify development, SEO, paid ads and speed optimisation under one roof, so fixes get implemented rather than left in a report.

Get started

Get your free London Shopify SEO audit.

Send us your Shopify store URL and within 48 hours we will return a Shopify SEO audit covering duplicate URLs, Shopify Markets setup, crawl waste and speed. No calls, no obligations.

Shopify services

Our Shopify services.

We offer a comprehensive suite of services to help your business reach its full potential on Shopify and Shopify Plus.