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eCommerce digital marketing services

Helping more customers discover and buy from your brand with digital marketing shaped around the commercial realities of eCommerce and retail.

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Your digital partner for retail

Retail and eCommerce brands are under constant pressure to make every customer interaction count. Acquisition is becoming more expensive, while changing search behaviour means shoppers can discover products in more places than ever before.

IDHL helps commerce businesses make better use of their marketing and digital platforms, with activity shaped around the commercial measures that matter to the business. 

Our eCommerce SEO services help brands respond to changing discovery behaviour, while our wider technology experience supports the buying experience behind it. By looking at these areas together, we can help reduce friction and build stronger customer relationships beyond the first purchase.

  • Drive profitable acquisition

    Reach customers who are more likely to buy while keeping acquisition costs and commercial returns in view when planning your marketing activity.

  • Grow search and AI discovery

    Help more customers find your products through search and AI-powered experiences, with content that makes your brand and product information easier to understand.

  • Create connected commerce solutions

    Bring the technology behind your online store together more effectively, helping create a smoother buying experience while giving your teams better access to useful data.

  • Improve customer retention and loyalty

    Give existing customers more reasons to return with relevant experiences that strengthen loyalty and help your brand build more value beyond the first purchase.

  • Optimise customer experiences

    Make it easier for customers to find the right products and move through your site with less friction, helping more visits turn into sales.

  • Grow online revenue

    Get more value from the demand you already generate by improving conversion and focusing activity on the areas with the greatest commercial potential.

eCommerce SEO services

Shoppers need to find your products at the point they’re actively looking for them. Our eCommerce SEO services help improve organic visibility across your site, with a strategy shaped around your products and how your customers search for them.

As an eCommerce SEO agency, we look at what could be limiting that visibility and where the strongest opportunities lie. This could mean improving product and categories content or addressing technical issues that make it harder for search engines to understand your site. The focus is on bringing relevant organic traffic into your store and supporting the wider commercial goals of your eCommerce business.

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PPC eCommerce agency

Rising media costs mean eCommerce brands need to look closely at what paid search is contributing to the business. Our eCommerce PPC services focus on bringing relevant customers to your store while keeping commercial performance firmly in view.

As an eCommerce PPC agency, we use your business goals to shape where budget is spent and how campaigns are managed. That means looking beyond traffic alone to understand whether paid activity is contributing to profitable sales. We can also account for seasonal trading patterns and changing customer demand, helping paid search respond to what’s happening across your business.

GEO for retail websites

Shoppers are increasingly using AI-powered search to research products and find recommendations, giving retail brands another area of discovery to consider. Our GEO services help make your brand and product information clearer for the systems shaping these experiences.

For retailers with large or frequently changing product ranges, this means looking at how content is structured and whether important information can be easily understood. GEO can work alongside your existing eCommerce SEO activity, helping your business adapt as people discover products in new ways, and supporting visibility beyond traditional search results.

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eCommerce web design and development

Your eCommerce website has an important job to do once someone arrives. Customers need to understand your products and move through the buying journey without unnecessary friction, while the platform behind the experience needs to support the way your business operates.

Our web and technology expertise brings those needs together. We design and build commerce experiences around how customers actually shop, while considering the technology and integrations needed behind the scenes. The result is a website that supports your commercial goals and gives you a stronger platform for ongoing improvement.

eCommerce CMS and CRM/AMS integration

eCommerce businesses often rely on different systems to manage their website and customer information. When these systems don’t work well together, it can create extra work for internal teams and make it harder to understand how customers are interacting with the business.

We help connect the technology behind your eCommerce experience so information can move more effectively between platforms. Better integration can support everything from personalisation to SEO services for ecommerce websites, giving teams access to the information they need to improve the customer experience. It also creates stronger foundations for retention activity and building customer relationships beyond the first purchase.

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UX research and journey mapping

Understanding how customers actually use your eCommerce site can reveal opportunities that aren’t always obvious from performance data alone. UX research helps identify where people encounter friction and what could make the shopping experience work better for them.

We use those insights to understand how customers move through your site and where changes could improve their journey. Journey mapping can also show how different interactions connect, giving you a clearer picture of what customers need at important points in the buying process. This informs practical improvements based on genuine customer behaviour rather than assumptions.

Email and marketing automation

A customer’s relationship with your brand can continue long after their first order. Email and marketing automation give eCommerce businesses a way to stay relevant, encourage repeat purchases and build stronger customer relationships over time.

We help brands use customer data to shape more relevant communications based on how people interact with the business. Automation can also make it easier to keep those conversations going without adding unnecessary manual work for your team. Used thoughtfully, this can support customer retention and help increase the value generated from existing customers.

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eCommerce digital strategy and optimisation

eCommerce performance depends on more than individual marketing channels. A clear digital strategy helps you understand how your marketing activity and online experience contribute to your store’s commercial performance.

We use customer and performance insight to identify where there is scope to improve and help prioritise the areas that deserve attention. This could involve refining existing activity or addressing parts of the customer experience that are holding performance back. Ongoing optimisation then gives you a way to learn from customer behaviour and adapt as priorities change, keeping commercial goals at the heart of your decisions.

Our eCommerce platform partners

We work with established commerce platforms and technology partners to support growing retail and eCommerce businesses. Our wider digital marketing credentials reflect the specialist expertise we bring to commerce projects.

  • Umbraco Gold Partner
  • Kentico Gold Partner
  • Adobe Silver Solution Partner
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  • Shopify Platinum Partner
  • BigCommerce Elite Partner

Build better eCommerce experiences

From acquisition and retention to platforms and performance, we help commerce brands make confident digital decisions.

Testimonials

  • "We needed more than a site refresh, we needed a platform built for modern commerce. This transformation gives us the creative freedom to inspire, the tools to convert and the agility to scale. It’s a real step change for the brand."

    Anjelica Delfino, Head of Marketing , Craig & RoseCraig & Rose
  • "We've worked with this team for over 9 years, and the results just keep getting better. Their expertise across multi-channel digital performance – from programmatic and PPC to Digital PR and SEO – has consistently driven growth, but the last year has been the best yet. Their strategic insight, responsiveness, and ability to adapt in a fast-moving digital landscape have made them an invaluable partner. We couldn't be happier with the performance they're delivering."

    Steve Mellows, eCommerce Manager, F.HindsF.Hinds
  • "We needed a team that would work with us, not just for us, and IDHL fit the bill. Their friendliness, professionalism, passion for our brand and eagerness to work collaboratively won us over. We’ve had a great working relationship since day one. The team have assisted us to deliver projects on time, helped to troubleshoot and fix problems at the drop of a hat and have been supportive throughout."

    Adam Meads , eCommerce Product Manager, NEOMNEOM
  • "We appointed IDHL to build our US site to support our global expansion, as they are an experienced Shopify Plus partner with expertise in both POS and international projects. In just 6 weeks, IDHL worked with the Hotel Chocolat team to deliver this, providing us with a strong foundation to build our US operations in a cost and time-effective way."

    Brendan Drake, US CEO , Hotel ChocolatHotel Chocolat

eCommerce SEO needs to account for the size and changing nature of an online store. Products can be added or removed regularly, categories evolve and filtering options can create large numbers of URLs for search engines to crawl.

There is also a strong commercial element. An eCommerce SEO specialist needs to understand how customers search for products and which areas of the site are most valuable to the business. This helps prioritise SEO activity around genuine opportunities, while technical work ensures search engines can find and understand important product and category pages.

Yes. We design and build eCommerce websites around business needs and the way customers actually shop online.

Our eCommerce specialists can support new website builds, replatforming projects and improvements to existing stores. We consider the customer experience alongside the technology needed to support it, helping create a site that works effectively for shoppers and the behind-the-scenes teams managing it. 

Where needed, our web specialists can also work alongside our SEO and paid media teams, so search visibility and marketing requirements are considered as part of the wider project.

We work with a range of established eCommerce platforms, including Shopify, Adobe Commerce, BigCommerce and SCAYLE. Our experience covers businesses with different product ranges and technical requirements, so the right platform will depend on what your store needs to support.

We can also help businesses move to a new eCommerce platform, with our Web and Performance teams working together where SEO migration support is needed. This helps ensure search requirements are considered alongside the wider website project.

Yes. We can help connect your eCommerce platform with other systems used across your business, so information moves more effectively between them.

Better integration can reduce manual work for internal teams and give you a clearer view of how customers interact with your business. Connected systems can also support wider activity, including SEO services for eCommerce websites, by making important product and website information easier to manage. Where existing technology needs to be retained, we can look at how it can work together rather than assuming everything needs replacing.

Large product catalogues can create challenges around navigation and organic visibility, particularly when products are frequently added, removed or moved between categories.

As an eCommerce SEO agency, we look at how products are organised and how easily important pages can be discovered by customers, search engines and LLMs. We can identify areas where the site structure or technical setup may be making products harder to find, then prioritise changes based on the store’s needs. This helps larger eCommerce websites remain navigable as the product range changes over time.

Shopping behaviour continues to change as customers discover products across search engines, AI-powered experiences and other digital platforms. We help eCommerce brands adapt by considering how their products are found and how the experience works once someone reaches the website.

This includes using SEO and GEO services to support changing discovery behaviour, while ongoing optimisation helps brands respond to what customers are actually doing. We also consider the technology behind the experience, so businesses are better placed to make changes as customer expectations and commercial priorities evolve.

Yes. Our retail SEO services can support businesses that need to improve visibility for individual stores or locations, as well as their wider eCommerce presence.

Local SEO can help customers discover nearby stores when searching for relevant products or services in their area. For retailers with both physical locations and an online store, we can consider local visibility alongside the wider SEO strategy so each has a clear role in helping customers find the business.

Yes. We support eCommerce businesses that operate across multiple countries and languages, where search behaviour and customer expectations can vary between markets.

Our international SEO specialists can help ensure your eCommerce SEO strategy reflects the markets you want to reach. We can also consider the structure of international sites and how content is presented for different audiences, helping customers find the most relevant version of your store.

We work with eCommerce and retail businesses across a wide range of sectors, including:

Our commerce experience spans businesses with different product ranges and trading models, so we know that the challenges can vary considerably by sector. We shape our support around how your customers shop and what matters commercially to your business.

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