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D2C & Digital Commerce

More traffic is the easy part. Margin is the hard part.

Category architecture, product page depth and Core Web Vitals connected to clean purchase events, so you can see which collections and templates actually carry revenue.

+64% organic revenueafter reworking listing hierarchy, filters and Core Web Vitals
Category and facet architecture Product page depth Core Web Vitals on PDP and PLP Product and bundle schema Feed and purchase event integrity Blended margin, not just ROAS
What holds this sector back

Three constraints, in the order they usually bite

01Architecture

Filters quietly generating thousands of URLs

Faceted navigation spawns near-identical combinations that consume crawl budget while the collections that actually sell wait to be recrawled.

Explicit indexation rules per facet, not a blanket block
02Speed

Vitals failing on the templates that sell

Product and listing templates carry the most traffic and the most third-party script. Slow loading costs conversion before it costs ranking, so it hides in the revenue line.

Template-level performance work, measured on field data
03Signals

Feeds and events that disagree with the backend

Purchase events firing twice, feeds drifting from the catalogue, ad platforms reporting numbers finance does not recognise. Every optimisation after that is guesswork.

Purchase event and feed reconciliation

What the pattern looks like across engagements

Individual results vary with starting position. These are the movements we see most consistently in this sector.

+64%Organic revenue after architecture and vitals work
2.6sLargest Contentful Paint on listing templates
+28%Average order value through bundle schema
–19%Blended acquisition cost after event repair
Common questions

Answered directly

Should faceted navigation be indexable?
A small, deliberate subset should be and everything else should not. Facets matching real search demand, such as a colour or size people actually query, earn a landing page. Every other combination should be blocked or canonicalised, because the permutations grow faster than crawl budget ever will.
How do we stop duplicate content across product variants?
Canonical variants to a single product where they differ only by attribute, and give a variant its own page only when it has independent demand. The common failure is a template generating a URL per combination and canonicalising none of them.
Does Core Web Vitals really affect revenue?
It affects revenue before it affects rankings, which is why it gets missed. On listing and product templates the effect shows in abandonment first. In one apparel engagement listing LCP came down to 2.6 seconds as part of work that lifted organic revenue 64%.
Can you work with Shopify as well as custom builds?
Yes, though what is possible differs. Shopify constrains URL structure and some server-side control, so the approach leans harder on internal linking and content. Custom builds allow deeper architectural change. We tell you which constraints apply before scoping.
What we are building next

Automation that runs on the measurement layer

Most automation fails because it is bolted onto data nobody trusts. The version worth building sits on top of instrumentation that already reconciles, which is the part we install first.

Pilot engagements

Catalogue and purchase-event drift

Feeds go stale, purchase events start double-firing, and the ad platform quietly reports numbers the backend does not recognise. Nobody notices until a month of reporting is already wrong and the budget decisions made on it have shipped.

Built on your purchase event and feed reconciliation, so it reads data that already reconciles.

  • Watches the live feed against the catalogue and flags divergence at SKU level
  • Checks purchase event integrity continuously rather than at audit time
  • Raises the specific record that broke, not a dashboard alert nobody opens
Where it stops

It does not fix the underlying template or feed logic. It tells you the moment one drifts.

Find out what is actually constraining growth

A short call, then a written view of where the funnel leaks and what we would fix first.