Issue 01
Amazon copy pasted into Shopify
Bullet points written for A9 do not answer the questions a Google searcher has. Pages end up thin and near-duplicate.
Shenzhen, Guangdong
The Shenzhen SEO agency for brands selling abroad
We are a Shopify SEO agency based in Shenzhen. We help the brands built here, from Bao'an to Longhua, rank on Google in the US, UK and Europe with native-English pages that buyers trust.
Why Shenzhen
We live where your products are made
Numbers from the city and from our own client work. Nothing rounded up.
- Amazon seller companies based in Shenzhen
- 600,000+
- The densest cluster of cross-border sellers anywhere.
- Zack Franklin living and working in Shenzhen
- 8+ years
- Organic revenue in 7 months
- $758,772.94
- Chinese automotive accessories brand, 30 products.
- In 100 days
- DR 12 → 41
- Chinese tech brand in an industrial hobbyist niche.
What we see in Shenzhen
Great products, invisible on Google
Most Shenzhen brands we audit share the same six problems. None of them are about the product.
Issue 02
One collection for 300 SKUs
A single "All Products" page cannot rank for "portable power station for camping" and "solar generator for home backup" at the same time.
Issue 03
Copy that reads translated
Buyers notice. So do Google's quality systems. Translated specs with no use cases lose to a US competitor's plain, confident English.
Issue 04
No brand outside Amazon
No founder, no about page, no reviews off-platform, no press. Google and AI assistants cannot confirm the brand is real.
Issue 05
Markets and hreflang half-configured
Shopify Markets turned on, /en-gb/ and /en-au/ copies indexed, hreflang missing or pointing at redirects. Rankings split across duplicates.
Issue 06
A team that cannot see Google
Checking rankings through a VPN once a month is not an SEO process. Someone needs to live in Search Console.
From Huaqiangbei to page one
The searches Shenzhen products should own
Google, not Baidu
Your buyers are not in China
When a Shenzhen founder says "we need SEO", the first thing we check is which search engine they mean. Baidu dominates inside mainland China, but a camper in Colorado or a commuter in Manchester has never opened it.
Our work is Google SEO for export: English pages on your Shopify store that rank in the US, UK, Canada, Australia and the EU, plus Bing, which quietly drove more than $25,000 of one Chinese client's organic revenue.
- Native-English collection pages, buying guides and comparisons
- Shopify Markets, subfolders and hreflang set up for each country
- Product schema and Merchant Center feeds for Shopping results
- Entity and trust signals so Google believes the brand exists
How we work in Shenzhen
Shenzhen speed, with an editor
- Week 1
Meet at your office
Nanshan, Futian, Bao'an, Longhua or Longgang. We sit with your ecommerce and product team, look at Search Console together and agree on the categories that matter.
- Month 1
Keyword research
10+ hours a month cutting about 10,000 keywords down to the 60 that match your catalog and margins.
- Monthly
Collections first
Around 20 money collection pages a month, one per buyer keyword: by use case, by capacity, by vehicle, by room.
- Monthly
Content and technical
About 20 articles a month, 15+ hours of technical fixes and schema, and 500 to 3,000 internal links. Three people check every article before it publishes.
- Ongoing
Weekly review, monthly report
We read your Shopify best sellers, new launches and inventory every week, then report revenue, positions and traffic every month.
We are now #1 in our category.
Proof from Chinese brands
What this looks like after a few months
Chinese automotive accessories brand7 months
$758,772
organic revenue in 7 months
$758,772.94 in organic revenue in 7 months, from 30 products
Read the case studyChinese tech brand (industrial hobbyist niche)4 months
$150,000+
organic revenue in 4 months
A Chinese tech brand to 1,000 clicks a day and $150,000+ in organic revenue
Read the case studyThe details
What makes Shenzhen different
Categories we meet every week#
Shenzhen's catalog is mostly things with a battery or a chip: portable power stations and solar panels, e-bikes and scooters, drones, action cameras, robot vacuums, smart locks, phone and laptop accessories, 3D printers and car electronics. Many of these are researched purchases with real price tags, which is exactly where Google content pays. See our pages on audio, portable power and solar and e-bikes.
Amazon-first is fine#
Most brands we talk to in Bao'an and Longhua started on Amazon, and many still do most of their volume there. That is not a problem. The problem is when Amazon is the only channel. The 2021 wave of account suspensions taught a lot of Shenzhen sellers that lesson the hard way. A Shopify store that ranks on Google is traffic you own, and it keeps paying if you turn the ads off. For brands moving more volume off Amazon, see Amazon to Shopify.
Product specs are not content#
Shenzhen engineering teams produce excellent spec sheets. Google rewards pages that answer the buyer's question: will this run a fridge for two days, is this e-bike legal on US bike paths, which drone can I fly without registering. We turn your specs into those answers, in plain English, and link them to the right collection.
Trust is the missing layer#
A random-letter brand name with no founder, no address beyond a warehouse and no reviews outside Amazon is hard for Google to trust. We build the layer that is missing: about and team pages, real policies, review syndication, digital PR and consistent brand data. More on that in brand trust for Chinese brands.
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People also ask
Shenzhen SEO questions
Can we meet in person in Shenzhen?
Yes. We are based in Shenzhen, so kickoffs and strategy sessions can happen at your office, whether that is in Nanshan, Futian, Bao'an, Longhua or Longgang. Day-to-day work runs over WeChat, email and a shared Google Sheet, and you get a monthly report covering revenue, positions, traffic and impressions.
Do you do Baidu SEO?
No. We do Google SEO, plus Bing and AI search, for brands selling to buyers outside China. Baidu is the right channel for the domestic market and needs a different skill set. Our clients sell to the US, Canada, the UK, Europe and Australia on Shopify, and those buyers find products through Google and increasingly through ChatGPT.
We already sell well on Amazon. Why invest in Google?
Because Amazon traffic is rented and Google traffic compounds. One of our Chinese clients, Amazon-first with only 30 products, made $758,772.94 in organic revenue in 7 months once their Shopify store ranked. Google also sends researched buyers to pages where you control the brand story, the margin and the customer email.
How long does SEO take for a Shenzhen brand?
It depends on your domain authority and category. As a general range, most stores see meaningful movement within three to six months. A newer Chinese tech brand we worked with went from DR 12 to DR 41 in 100 days and hit 1,000 clicks a day. Brand-new domains with no links take longer, and we will tell you that up front.
Who writes the English content?
Articles are drafted with AI, then edited by humans, and at least three people read and fact-check each one before it is published. We base length and structure on what currently ranks, usually 1,500 to 3,500 words for guides. Your team reviews technical claims, and we handle keyword research, writing, publishing and internal links.
Coffee in Shenzhen, or a call this week
Send us your store and your top three categories. We will show you who owns page one for them and what it would take to replace them.