08/31/2025
How can SEO Impact BFCM and the Holiday Shopping Season?
With the holiday shopping season just around the corner, you still have time to make an SEO push that has an impact on driving revenue.
With increased shopping comes increased searching and increased opportunity for you brand.
Here are the 5 SEO Opportunities you should invest in today:
1. Keyword Variants
With more people searching for gifts and deals during the holiday season, you'll want to find a way for your brand to target variations of your most important keyword phrases
2. Double down on your most important keywords
Ranking 5th for one of your most important keywords? You have time to make an effort to push that ranking to 4th, 3rd, 2nd, or perhaps even 1st before the holiday season is in full swing.
That improved ranking will come with even more traffic than usual thanks to the bump in online shopping during the holidays.
3. Promote Your Deals
Conduct outreach to writers, journalists, influencers, and websites that feature or highlight brands that have BFCM or holiday shopping discounts and deals.
4. Holiday Shopping Guides
Whether its getting listed in holiday shopping guides on a third party website or creating your own on your website, there will be an increase of people searching for "Best [product you sell]" or "Best gifts for mom 2025".
5. Clean Up Your Website
Is your site fast? Easy to navigate? Are customers running into a ton of 404 errors?
The worst time of year to have technical SEO issues is during BFCM and the holiday season.