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▪ APPAREL + DTCUS DIRECT-TO-CONSUMER APPAREL

TURNING PRODUCT INVENTORY INTO SEARCH VISIBILITY.

Built a scalable product SEO system to get more apparel products discovered, indexed and surfaced across shopping search.

PRIMARY OUTCOME
580 NEW
SHOPPING PRODUCT INDEX PLACEMENTS
APPAREL · ECOMMERCE SEO

Strengthened product architecture, feed signals and technical indexation to expand shopping visibility across a large DTC catalog.

▪ THE PROJECT

GETTING MORE APPAREL PRODUCTS INTO SEARCH

The DTC brand had a large product catalog, but too many products were difficult for search engines to discover, index or prioritize.

The catalog changed constantly across new collections, colours, sizes, seasonal products and discontinued inventory. Product variants and faceted URLs created additional crawl paths, while important products were sometimes buried several clicks deep.

We rebuilt the architecture around category hierarchy, product indexation, variant handling, shopping signals and internal linking, creating a more controlled path from apparel category to individual product.

PROJECT SPECIFICATION
INDUSTRYUS Direct-to-Consumer Apparel
PRIMARY SERVICEProduct SEO
FOCUS AREASProduct Indexation · Technical SEO · Shopping SEO · Product Architecture
TIMELINEOngoing Growth Program
PRIMARY GOALIncrease indexed and discoverable products
▪ THE SEARCH GAP

A LARGE CATALOG. TOO FEW PRODUCTS IN SEARCH.

The company had strong offerings, but organic and AI search presence fell short because the architecture was not built to scale.

01
INDEXATION

IMPORTANT PRODUCTS WERE TOO DEEP

New and long-tail apparel products were buried behind category layers and weak internal-link paths, limiting efficient discovery.

02
VARIANTS

PRODUCT VARIANTS CREATED NOISE

Colour, size and filter combinations produced additional URLs that competed with the canonical product instead of strengthening it.

03
SHOPPING SEARCH

PRODUCT SIGNALS NEEDED TO ALIGN

Titles, attributes, feeds, structured data and canonical URLs needed to consistently represent the same product across search surfaces.

KEY INSIGHT

The opportunity was not more products. It was getting the right products discovered, indexed and understood correctly.

▪ THE APPROACH

CLEAN THE CATALOG. SCALE PRODUCT DISCOVERY.

We combined technical SEO with scalable search expansion: build the technical foundation first, map intent, and scale the assets that drive business value.

01
PRODUCT SEO

BUILD A CLEAN PRODUCT HIERARCHY

Connected apparel categories, subcategories and products into a clearer crawl and discovery path.

02
INDEXATION

CONTROL WHAT GETS INDEXED

Separated canonical product URLs from low-value variants, filters and temporary inventory pages.

03
SHOPPING SEO

STRENGTHEN PRODUCT SIGNALS

Aligned product titles, attributes, structured data, feeds and internal links around each canonical product.

04
TECHNICAL SEO

MAKE NEW PRODUCTS DISCOVERABLE

Improved sitemap coverage, crawl paths and category-to-product linking so new inventory could enter search faster.

▪ WHAT WE DID

FROM TECHNICAL FIXES TO SCALABLE SEARCH GROWTH

Rather than generic tactics, we executed disciplined workstreams engineered for compounding organic and AI search visibility.

▪ THE RESULTS

Main: large 580 NEW metric → result heading → short description.

The new product architecture expanded the number of apparel products positioned for discovery across shopping-focused search surfaces.

PRIMARY 6-MONTH BUSINESS OUTCOME
580 NEW
SHOPPING PRODUCT INDEX PLACEMENTS
SHOPPING PRODUCT INDEX COVERAGECOMPOUNDING TRAJECTORY
Month 1 (Audit)Month 2 (Fixes)Month 3 (Programmatic)Month 4 (Indexation)Month 5 (Expansion)Month 6 (580 NEW Outcome)
580
NEW PRODUCT PLACEMENTS

Additional apparel products gained stronger indexation and discoverability signals.

PRODUCT-LED
SEARCH COVERAGE

Improved visibility across apparel categories, product attributes and long-tail shopping searches.

CATALOG-WIDE
TECHNICAL COVERAGE

Applied repeatable indexation, sitemap and internal-linking rules across the growing product catalog.

CAMPAIGN PERFORMANCE SNAPSHOT

CAMPAIGN TIMELINE6 Months
SHOPPING PRODUCT INDEX PLACEMENTS580 NEW
NEW PRODUCT PLACEMENTS580
SEARCH COVERAGEPRODUCT-LED
GROWTH SIGNALVERIFIED
▪ THE BUSINESS IMPACT
The biggest change was getting more of our actual inventory into search instead of relying on a small group of products to carry organic visibility.
US DIRECT-TO-CONSUMER APPAREL MARKETING LEAD

WHAT CHANGED

The combination of stronger product architecture, cleaner indexation, and improved shopping signals created a scalable foundation for product discovery.

  • PRODUCT DISCOVERY: More apparel products became technically accessible and easier for search engines to discover.
  • INDEXATION: The program added 580 new shopping product index placements.
  • SCALABILITY: The same technical framework could be applied as new collections and products entered the catalog.