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The Role of Customer Reviews in E-commerce SEO

Customer reviews are valuable when it comes to your e-commerce search engine optimisation (SEO), helping you gain more customers, helping them with their purchasing decisions. Many businesses fear negative reviews, assuming that they will negatively impact their online reputation, but when you embrace reviews, you improve your business, resolve issues quickly, and improve credibility and trust.

Potential customers read online reviews to help them determine whether they can trust a business, product, or service. This benefits your business, telling how customers feel about your business, enabling customers to share their thoughts, helping you improve your brand reputation.

The Role of Customer Reviews in E-commerce SEO
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The Importance of Customer Reviews

E-commerce store customer reviews are essential, impacting potential customers purchasing decisions. In a brick and mortar store setting, customers are able to interact with the product, touching it, seeing it in person, but when buying from an e-commerce store, customers need to rely on customer reviews to help them decide if its the right purchase for them.

Customers use your reviews to learn more about your business, enabling them to compare businesses to find their perfect fit. While you can write anything about your business on yoru product pages, you cannot change customer reviews. Customers trust online reviews as much as they do personal recommendations, which is why customer reviews are essential to E-commerce SEO success.

Improved Credibility

Online reviews help to build trust with your potential customers who don’t know your business and may be undecided on whether to make a purchase. Reading reviews provides them with valuable customer facts and opinions that are unbiased and honest. Customer reviews don't only provide valuable information about your products, but also helps them identify your customer service levels.

Customer reviews helps you build a loyal customer base, as customers feel you care about their opinions. Modern customers are smart and don't take what they read online at face value, therefore, every online review you receive improves your credibility and trust.

Improved Sales

New consumers are more likely to purchase products from e-commerce stores with reviews, which can impact your online sales. These reviews help your new customers decide on whether to make a purchase or not, based on previous customer experiences. Seventy seven percent of customers look at reviews when looking for products. 

Gain Insights

When you read through the reviews you receive for your e-commerce store, you learn how your customers feel about your products and customer service. As part of your SEO strategy, you should take every review into consideration, positive and negative, taking the time to provide a personalised, professional, and timely response. 

Negative reviews are not the end of the world, in fact they provide valuable insights into your business, including what processes or products disappointed your customers. In turn, this helps you make necessary improvements. When you respond to unhappy customers apologising for their experience and providing a solution, showing you care about their reviews, it can turn the negative into a positive. This shows potential customers that you value feedback and are looking for ways to improve.

Improves SEO Efforts

You want your business to be at the top of search engine results pages (SERPs), when a potential customer searches for a product you provide. When you rank well in SERPs, you improve website traffic and sales. SEO takes time to deliver results and customer reviews play a vital role in improving your SEO. Customer reviews include your targeted keywords, while adding fresh content to your site.

Conclusion

Customer reviews play a pivotal role in your e-commerce SEO strategy, boosting credibility, visibility, sales, and your SEO efforts. To enjoy the SEO benefits of customer reviews today, get in touch with Genie Crawl for a customised strategy to help you achieve results.

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