Ecommerce SEO Agency in Chicago
Chicago catalogs are big, old and full of duplicates. That is usually where the rankings are hiding.
Chicago runs on large catalogs: home goods, CPG, industrial supply and wholesale operations selling direct. 7SEA runs ecommerce SEO for Chicago Shopify stores: technical fixes at catalog scale, collection and product page work, and content that ranks for what you actually sell.
In short
What is ecommerce SEO in Chicago?
Ecommerce SEO in Chicago is catalog work. The stores here are often larger and older than coastal DTC brands, which means duplicate collections, faceted navigation and thin product copy at a scale that cannot be fixed page by page. Templating, internal linking and technical cleanup do most of the lifting.
Businesses worked with
400+
Running SEO programs
6 years
Google Partner and Shopify Partner
Partner
You own every account
No lock-in
Where the work goes
Where the work goes for a Chicago store
Technical first, then collections, then content. Spending on content before a store can be crawled properly is the most common way ecommerce SEO budget disappears.
| Work | What it fixes | When it moves |
|---|---|---|
| Technical | Crawl, index, duplicate collections, faceted navigation, migration debt | 4 to 8 weeks |
| Collections | Pages built around how buyers search rather than the catalog structure | 3 to 6 months |
| Products | Titles, copy, schema and internal links at catalog scale | 3 to 6 months |
| Content | Buying guides, specification and comparison content | 4 to 8 months |
| Links | Digital PR aimed at collection and category pages | Ongoing |
Case studies
Businesses we have done this for.
Three SEO programs, with the numbers in each case study rather than on this page.
Brazil
Riviera Master
Real estate agency on the Riviera de Sao Lourenco, Brazil. The numbers are in the case study.
View case study
Bangladesh
Color Experts
Photo editing company in Bangladesh serving clients worldwide. The numbers are in the case study.
View case study
Australia
Sunshine Ayurveda
Ayurveda wellness centre in Australia. The numbers are in the case study.
View case studyOn the ground
Why large Chicago catalogs underperform in search
Where Chicago ecommerce brands cluster
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The Loop and River North
corporate ecommerce teams and larger Plus catalogs
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West Loop
DTC food, beverage and lifestyle brands
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Fulton Market
newer brands scaling on paid
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Pilsen and Bridgeport
makers and small-catalog independent brands
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Schaumburg and the northwest suburbs
industrial supply and B2B ecommerce
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Naperville
home goods and family-market retailers
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Elk Grove Village
distribution and wholesale moving direct
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Evanston
university-adjacent and specialist retailers
What is included
What the ecommerce SEO retainer covers, every month.
One scope, no add-on invoices later. Technical work is included rather than quoted separately once the audit finds something.
- Technical audit and the fixes, not just the list
- Crawl, index and speed issues resolved
- Collection pages built around how buyers search
- Product page titles, copy and schema
- Keyword map with cannibalisation cleaned up
- Internal linking across the catalog
- Buying guides and comparison content
- Product, FAQ and Breadcrumb schema
- AI search visibility and answer formatting
- Digital PR and link acquisition to money pages
- Google Search Console and analytics setup
- Monthly report on non-brand organic revenue
And what we will not do
- Buy links from networks or guest post farms
- Publish AI content at volume to hit a quota
- Report keyword rankings while revenue is flat
- Count brand searches as SEO results
- Promise a position or a timeline nobody controls
- Sell a rebuild when a targeted fix will do
Process
How the first six months actually run.
Technical first, because content on a store Google cannot crawl properly is wasted money.
01
Audit
Technical crawl, index coverage, current rankings and the commercial terms you are missing. Yours whether or not you continue.
Week 1
02
Keyword and page map
Every commercial term assigned to one page, with existing cannibalisation cleaned up first.
Weeks 2 to 3
03
Technical fixes
Crawl, index and speed issues resolved in order of impact. Theme-level changes come with an exact spec.
Months 1 to 2
04
Collections and products
Structure, copy and schema on the pages that sell, starting with the collections closest to ranking already.
Months 2 to 4
05
Content
Buying guides and comparisons that rank in their own right and link into the catalog.
Ongoing
06
Links and review
Acquisition aimed at money pages, reported monthly on non-brand organic revenue.
Monthly
Questions
Ecommerce SEO questions.
If yours is not here, send it. We answer these on the first call anyway.
How much does ecommerce SEO cost in Chicago?
Chicago retainers for ecommerce SEO typically run $2,000 to $6,000 a month. Ours is scoped after the audit, based on catalog size and technical debt. You approve the number before anything starts, on a rolling 30-day contract.
How long does ecommerce SEO take to work?
Technical fixes can move impressions within four to eight weeks. Collection and product page rankings take three to six months, and competitive category terms take longer. Any agency promising page one in ninety days is describing a brand term.
What is the difference between ecommerce SEO and regular SEO?
Regular SEO optimises a handful of pages. Ecommerce SEO handles hundreds or thousands, where the problems are duplicate collections, faceted navigation, thin product copy and internal linking at scale. The tactics overlap, the execution does not.
Who writes the content, the agency or the brand?
We do. Collection copy, product descriptions, buying guides and comparisons are written and published by us, with your approval before anything goes live. Nothing stalls waiting on your team to send text.
Will you fix our technical issues or just tell us about them?
We fix them. The audit exists to decide what to do, not to hand you a PDF. Where a change needs your developer or a theme edit, we write the exact spec and review it after.
How do you measure ecommerce SEO results?
Non-brand organic revenue first, then assisted conversions, then rankings by page. Brand traffic is excluded from reporting, because counting it makes every SEO program look like it is working.
What is your ecommerce SEO process in Chicago?
Technical audit first, then a keyword and page map with cannibalisation cleaned up, then collection and product work, then content and links. The plan is shared for approval before any page is touched.
What if our catalog has thousands of products?
That is where ecommerce SEO earns its fee. Large Chicago catalogs, especially home goods and industrial supply, usually have duplicate collections and thin product copy at scale. The fix is templating and internal linking rather than writing every page by hand.
Do you work with B2B ecommerce as well as DTC?
Yes, and Chicago has more of it than most markets. B2B catalogs rank on specification, part number and application searches rather than lifestyle terms, which changes the content but not the technical work underneath.
Do you work with Shopify Plus stores?
Yes. Plus stores usually have larger catalogs, more collections and more historic technical debt, which is where most of the ranking opportunity sits. We are a Shopify Partner and work on both Shopify and Plus.
Send us the store and the collections you want ranking.
We will come back with what is blocking organic revenue, in writing, before you spend anything. No deck and no sales rep.