Book a strategy call Book a call

eCommerce SEO Agency

Ecommerce SEO that grows revenue, not just rankings.

An ecommerce SEO agency for established Australian online stores. We map every category and product page to your P&L, sync organic with your Shopping feeds, and run paid and organic off one keyword-to-revenue map. It is the discipline behind Hobbies Direct's +77% revenue.

77%
Revenue growth, Hobbies Direct (paid + organic)
38%
Organic traffic lift, Hobbies Direct
$300M+
Client revenue from search, organic + paid

Hobbies Direct: +77% revenue from paid and organic combined and a +38% organic traffic lift over the engagement, against a P&L-mapped keyword strategy across thousands of SKUs. Figures verified before they shipped.

google.com/search?q=best+rc+cars+australia
All Shopping Images Videos News
About 1,240,000 results (0.42 seconds)
#1 ORGANIC
H
hobbiesdirect
https://hobbiesdirect.com.au
RC Cars & Scale Models | Hobbies Direct
Australia's largest range of RC cars, trucks, planes & parts. Free shipping over $150. Same-day dispatch from Geelong.
https://scoot.com.au
RC Cars Online | Hobby Store
Shop our range of remote control cars and accessories. Australia-wide delivery.
https://kogan.com.au
Remote control cars | Kogan.com
Shop online for RC cars at Kogan. Browse our extensive range of remote-controlled toys.
Position
1 of 1.24M
Our take

Ecommerce SEO is a revenue channel, not a traffic report.

Most ecommerce SEO is sold against traffic and rankings. Firewire sells it against revenue per product margin. The work starts by mapping every category and product page against the queries that actually drive its revenue, not the queries with the highest search volume. The difference between a good and a forgettable ecommerce SEO company is whether they stop at sessions or tie the work to the P&L.

An online store is structurally harder to rank than a brochure site. Thousands of dynamic SKUs, faceted navigation that bloats the crawl, duplicate content across variants, and product feeds that fight with the rest of the marketing stack. We engineer category and product architecture for revenue, then sync it with your Shopping feeds so paid and organic reinforce each other on every buying query rather than competing for the same click.

If a ranking is not on a query that pays, we deprioritise it. Organic and Shopping run off one keyword-to-revenue map, and our ecommerce SEO services ladder every brief, redirect and schema decision back to a revenue-generating query. Ecommerce SEO without commercial intent is just busy work, and Firewire does not do busy work.

The methodology, applied to ecommerce

How we engineer Earned Presence in online stores.

The same three-phase framework you've seen on the homepage, built around the surfaces an online store actually competes on.

01
Discover
"Map every SKU and category against your P&L."

We audit your organic and Shopping share against the queries that drive revenue across your catalogue. Every keyword is mapped to a product margin, every competitor benchmarked, every AI model checked for whether it cites your range. The output is a single view of where catalogue revenue is being left on the table, and which collections to compete on first.

02
Capture
"Build the architecture that earns the rankings."

Category and product page architecture, technical foundation (crawl, faceted navigation, duplicate content, Core Web Vitals), content, authority, schema and AI citation: built as one system. Every brief is laddered back to a revenue-generating query and briefed against the same keyword-to-revenue map as your Google Shopping feeds.

03
Prove
"Report on revenue, not rankings."

Weekly walkthroughs against your P&L. Live dashboards covering organic and Shopping revenue, AI citations, and SERP positions on the queries that matter. If a tactic is not moving revenue, it is cut at the next review.

Operating across every search surface
Google SERPsGoogle ShoppingAI Models
What's included

What ships in a Firewire ecommerce SEO engagement.

01
Category page SEO

Collection page architecture and content engineered so your category pages rank and convert on high-intent buying queries. We treat collections as the commercial workhorses of the store, structured to capture demand and built to close it, not thin landing pages bolted on as an afterthought.

02
Product page SEO

Unique, optimised product content at scale, with structured data, review integration and disciplined out-of-stock URL handling. We optimise product pages so each one earns its own rankings instead of relying on the category above it, even across catalogues running into the thousands of SKUs.

03
Technical ecommerce SEO

Faceted and filtered navigation control, duplicate content resolution, crawl budget, indexation, site speed and Core Web Vitals across large catalogues, plus replatform migrations with full redirect mapping and pre and post benchmarking so a move never costs you rankings. These are the issues a brochure site never faces, and the ones that quietly cap an online store's organic revenue if they go unmanaged.

04
Shopify SEO agency

As a Shopify SEO agency we handle the platform's specifics directly: collection and product architecture, Shopify's URL and duplicate-content quirks, app bloat and template speed, and Shopping feed sync. We know where Shopify helps SEO and where it gets in the way, so we engineer around the defaults rather than fighting them. A Shopify SEO agency that treats the platform as a constraint to design for, not a limit to accept.

05
WooCommerce, Magento and BigCommerce

Platform-specific optimisation beyond Shopify, across WooCommerce, Magento (Adobe Commerce) and BigCommerce. Each platform has its own crawl, duplicate-content and feed behaviour, and we engineer for the one you actually run rather than a generic checklist.

06
Shopping feed and paid integration

Product feed optimisation synced with Google Shopping so paid and organic reinforce each other on every buying query. The same keyword-to-revenue map drives both channels, which is what lets organic lower the cost of paid and paid sharpen what organic targets next.

07
Off-page SEO and digital PR

Earned links, digital PR and brand citations from reputable sources that tell search engines your store is worth ranking. White-hat only: no link buying, no PBNs, no shortcuts that put your domain one algorithm update away from a penalty.

08
AI search and GEO

Part of every Firewire engagement, not a separate add-on. We engineer Product, Offer and Brand schema and the entity signals so AI models cite your range as the source. This is the same schema discipline that took Hobbies Direct's catalogue of thousands of SKUs into AI answers, tracked across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Gemini.

Boundaries

What we don't do.

To be useful, the work has to be focused. Here's what we explicitly don't do, so you can decide if we're the right ecommerce SEO agency for you before the first call.

No link buying

We do not buy, exchange, or rent links. Every authority signal we build for your store is earned editorially or through digital PR.

No outsourcing

Strategy, content, and technical work are all done in-house by Firewire specialists in Australia. No overseas writing factories churning out thin product copy, no white-label resellers.

No long lock-ins

Engagements run on a 3-month minimum, then month-to-month with quarterly P&L reviews. If we are not the right partner anymore, we say so first.

No vanity metrics

We do not report on impressions, sessions, or rankings as success measures. The scoreboard is revenue and ROAS.

Not for pre-revenue stores

We work best where organic and Shopping are already a material revenue channel. If you are pre-launch or pre-revenue, you are usually better served elsewhere first.

The first 90 days

From booking the call to compounding rankings.

A real timeline for an Australian eCommerce SEO engagement, built from what actually happens for the average Firewire client.

01 Week 1
30-min strategy call + diagnostic

A senior strategist scopes the engagement. A first-pass audit of your GA4, GSC, organic and Shopping share, and AI citation surface is delivered. You walk out with a prioritised map of where catalogue revenue is leaking across collections, product pages and feeds.

  • Strategy call
  • Diagnostic delivered
  • Priority map
02 Month 1
Foundation built, first wins shipped

Technical foundation fixed in priority order: faceted navigation, duplicate content, speed. Keyword-to-revenue map built across the catalogue. Category and product content engine briefed against top-margin queries. First content live. Reporting dashboards live. Your store's SEO has a spine by week four.

  • Technical fixes
  • Revenue map
  • First content live
03 Month 2+
Compounding gains, weekly cadence

Weekly walkthroughs against revenue. Content engine producing 4–8 briefs per month. Authority signals building. AI citation tracking live. By the end of month 3, organic and Shopping revenue trajectory is visible against the pre-engagement baseline.

  • Weekly walkthroughs
  • 4–8 briefs/month
  • Revenue trajectory live
Anchor case

A rankings-obsessed account, rebuilt around revenue.

Hobbies Direct was ranking for generic hobby terms, but the traffic rarely turned into sales. Ads spend was climbing while margin wasn't.

We mapped every keyword to a product margin, rebuilt the account architecture around the highest-LTV categories, and synced SEO briefs with Shopping feeds so paid and organic reinforced each other on every buying query.

+96%
Paid revenue growth, YoY
+46%
Organic revenue growth, YoY
Spend scaled at constant ROAS

Firewire built the attribution framework before any content was created, so we always had clean data on what each channel contributed. The SEO wasn't cannibalising paid. It brought in customers we weren't reaching before.

HM
Hamish McRitchie
Co-Founder & Director, Hobbies Direct
Revenue, monthly
Sep 2023 to Feb 2025
+77% YoY
$100k $200k $0 SEP '23JAN '24MAY '24SEP '24FEB '25 Firewire started · Feb '24
Channels
SEOAdsGEO
eCommerce SEO results

Online stores growing revenue, not just rankings.

The named ecommerce engagement behind the headline numbers. Every figure verified before it shipped.

See all eCommerce SEO case studies
E-COMMERCE

Hobbies Direct

“Ranking for everything except the queries that pay the bills.”

Owned the page, twice. A P&L-mapped keyword strategy that synced paid and organic on every revenue query, so they own the page, twice.

scale model rc cars online
4.1× ROAS
Ad Sponsored · hobbiesdirect.com.au
RC Cars & Scale Models, Hobbies Direct
Free shipping over $150 · Same-day dispatch
#1 ORGANIC
hobbiesdirect.com.au
RC Cars & Scale Models, Hobbies Direct
Largest Aussie range, free shipping over $150
+96%
Paid revenue YoY
+46%
Organic revenue YoY
Spend at constant ROAS
Who runs your eCommerce SEO

The specialists you'd work with.

The actual people who'd ship your work. Strategy, execution and reporting from the same team.

8
Specialists
8yrs
Avg specialist experience
$300M+
Client revenue from search
Your team
What clients say

Quotes from the buyers we ship for.

Every quote here is from a real Firewire client. Numbers tied to verified analytics data.

Firewire built the attribution framework before any content was created, so we always had clean data on what each channel contributed. The SEO wasn't cannibalising paid. It was bringing in customers we weren't reaching before. We would recommend them without hesitation.
HM
Hamish McRitchie
Co-Founder & Director, Hobbies Direct
+77%
Revenue, YoY
−20%
Ad spend
4.1×
Blended ROAS
Read the full story
FAQ

Common eCommerce SEO questions, answered.

Cannot find what you are looking for? Send us a note and a senior strategist will reply within 4 business hours.

What does an ecommerce SEO agency do?
An ecommerce SEO agency optimises an online store to rank and convert across its category and product pages, technical SEO, content, links and Shopping feeds. The honest difference between a good and a forgettable ecommerce SEO company is whether they stop at traffic or tie it to revenue. Firewire ties every tracked query to a product margin and reports against the P&L, not a rankings scoreboard.
How is ecommerce SEO different from regular SEO?
Scale and structure. An online store has thousands of dynamic SKUs, category and product architecture, faceted navigation and duplicate content, product schema and reviews, and Shopping feed integration, none of which a brochure site faces. Regular SEO that ignores those ecommerce-specific problems leaves most of a store's organic revenue on the table.
How much does ecommerce SEO cost in Australia?
Ecommerce SEO in Australia typically runs $1,500–$10,000+ per month depending on catalogue size, competitiveness and scope. Firewire engagements are team-scoped, not retainer-priced (starting from $2,500 per month and scaling with team size and scope), and we quote against the revenue the channel should return, not a fixed package. If the maths does not justify the work, we will tell you. For the full breakdown of pricing models and red flags, see our guide to how much SEO costs in Australia.
Do you do Shopify SEO?
Yes. We offer dedicated Shopify SEO expertise: collection and product architecture, Shopify's URL and duplicate-content quirks, app bloat and template speed, and Shopping feed sync. We also work across WooCommerce, Magento (Adobe Commerce) and BigCommerce, so the platform you run is one we engineer for directly rather than treating as a generic checklist.
How long until I see results from ecommerce SEO?
Foundation and quick wins typically show in 6–12 weeks; compounding revenue on competitive buying queries takes 3–6 months to mature. We track a time-to-first-revenue-attributable-result metric on every engagement and report against it weekly.
How do you handle duplicate content and faceted navigation?
Canonicalisation, parameter handling and crawl control so filtered and variant URLs don't bloat the index or split ranking signals. On large catalogues this is one of the highest-leverage technical fixes, because uncontrolled faceted navigation quietly burns crawl budget and dilutes the pages that actually earn revenue.
Can SEO and Google Ads or Shopping work together for my store?
Yes. We run organic and paid off one keyword-to-revenue map so they reinforce each other instead of cannibalising the same query. Organic lowers the cost of paid, paid sharpens what organic targets next, and both stay synced with your Google Ads and Google Shopping feeds. The Hobbies Direct result came from exactly this integration.
Will ecommerce SEO still work with AI Overviews and AI search?
Yes. We engineer Product, Offer and Brand schema and entity signals so AI models cite your range, and we track those citations across engines. That is the GEO and AI search work baked into every engagement, not an add-on. Buyers increasingly read the AI answer before they click, so being part of it matters more now, not less.
How do you handle out-of-stock or discontinued product pages?
Preserve-and-relink or redirect, based on each URL's traffic and indexing value, so accrued equity isn't lost when a product goes. Disciplined out-of-stock handling protects the rankings the rest of the catalogue depends on.
Do product reviews and schema help ecommerce SEO?
Yes. Review and rating schema feeds rich results, adds trust at the click, and contributes keyword signals. Combined with Product and Offer schema, it is also part of what gets your range cited in AI answers.
Can you migrate my store to a new platform without losing rankings?
Yes. We run replatform migrations with comprehensive redirect mapping, pre and post benchmarking, and Search Console monitoring through the cutover, so equity and revenue carry across rather than getting lost in the move.
What size store is the right fit for Firewire?
Established Australian stores where organic and Shopping is already a material revenue channel and a marketing manager is in place. We are a remote-first team rooted in Newcastle, running the same model for stores across Australia. Smaller or pre-revenue stores are usually better served elsewhere first.
Can you guarantee #1 rankings?
No, and any agency that does is a risk, not a safe bet. No one controls Google's algorithm, so guaranteed-ranking promises usually mean low-value terms or black-hat tactics that invite a penalty. We commit to revenue movement and report against it weekly.
Is your link building safe?
White-hat only. We never buy, rent or exchange links. Off-page authority is earned through genuine editorial links, digital PR and brand citations: the kind of authority both Google and the AI models trust, with none of the penalty risk that comes from bought links.
Where we work

Firewire works with brands across Australia.

A remote-first team rooted in Newcastle, NSW. Working with clients in every Australian capital.

Open for Q3 2026 engagements

Ready to grow ecommerce revenue?

30 minutes with a senior Firewire ecommerce strategist. We will diagnose where catalogue revenue is being left on the table across organic and Shopping, and tell you honestly whether we are the right ecommerce SEO agency to recover it.

  • A revenue-mapped view of your organic and Shopping opportunity
  • A first-pass diagnosis of your technical, content, and AI citation surface
  • Honest view on fit: we will tell you if we are not right
  • No deck, no pitch, no commitment
Average response in 4 business hours Slots available next week
Click the card or Next to meet another strategist