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SEO for Food & Packaging

SEO and Marketing for Food and Packaging Suppliers

Business-to-business food and packaging search is narrow, technical and low volume, and each enquiry can be worth more than a hundred consumer leads.

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Why SEO For Food & Packaging Is Different

  • 01

    Buyers search by specification and material, not by category

  • 02

    Very low search volumes that look unpromising until you price a single order

  • 03

    Long procurement cycles with several people involved in the decision

  • 04

    Product ranges too large to build pages for everything

Business-to-business food and packaging search is narrow, technical and low volume. Buyers search by material, size, specification and compliance standard, and each enquiry can be worth more than a hundred consumer leads.

Why Low Search Volume Is Misleading

Keyword tools show small numbers for these searches, and many suppliers conclude SEO is not worth it. But the people searching are buyers with budgets, and the competition is often weak. Ranking for dozens of narrow, specific searches can fill a sales pipeline.

Product Range Structure

Hundreds of products need a structure that search engines can crawl and buyers can navigate: categories by material and use, filters that do not create thousands of duplicate pages, and product pages with full specifications. That is technical SEO and on-page SEO working together.

Content For Long Procurement Cycles

B2B buyers research, compare and get sign-off before ordering. Guides on materials, compliance and sustainability, written with SEO content writing, keep you in front of them through that process, and email marketing keeps past buyers ordering.

Experience In This Sector

I have been the content and SEO partner for a food packaging supplier for close to three years. Their co-founder’s words are among the testimonials on my about page.

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SEO For Food & Packaging, Done By One Specialist

I work with food & packaging businesses across the world, alongside the owners and teams who know their customers best. You deal with me from the first audit to the monthly report.

About me

Client results

SEO Results & Client Testimonials

Real numbers from client work, and real words from the people I did it for.

2.39M
search impressions for one client in 12 months
125K
AI-search impressions in 3 months
Top 3
map pack across whole cities
3 yrs+
with my longest-standing clients
Bradley Saveth

Bradley Saveth

Co-Founder, President & COO, SupplyCaddy

“Raff has been at SupplyCaddy for almost 3 years and I can confidently say he's an exceptional content partner. Raff combines strong writing skills with a deep understanding of SEO and content strategy, consistently producing clear, compelling, and well-structured content that aligns with both brand voice and business goals. … I'd highly recommend Raff to anyone looking for a skilled, dependable content and SEO professional.”

3-year content & SEO partner

Diane Moura

Diane Moura

CEO, ZenChange Marketing

“Raff's dedication touched my heart. He is doing phenomenally, and after working with Raff for over 3 years, I believe he is a great addition to our team and am lucky to have found him. Last but not least, Raff is learning a lot! He has excellent communication skills, is extremely responsive, and is picking up easily on new tasks.”

3+ years, retained

Nicolas Dermond

Nicolas Dermond

Co-founder, SupplyCaddy

“Really great work so far and you've even taught me a lot since we started working together. Raff - thank you great job here on the audit. Also you are a great presenter! You've done such a great job and its showing in the analytics of the site. Truly great work its awesome to see!”

Analytics up after audit

Ariana Gibson

Ariana Gibson

CEO, Stigma App

“Working with Raff has been a pleasure. He is really proactive and thoughtful when communicating with the team, which is precisely what we were looking for in this position. We will eventually design a procedure that makes it incredibly simple for him to hop in every day and understand what we want and what he can do to provide value, but even as we're creating that, he has been excellent at doing so.”

Ongoing SEO & social

Dhruv Tyagi

Dhruv Tyagi

Founder, MelanJolly

“Raff is a wonderful teammate, and I couldn't be happier working with someone of his caliber. He is soft-spoken yet charming nature always makes our meetings a joy to attend. Raff is extremely diligent with his work, even overcoming differences in time zones, to ensure he delivers his projects on a timely basis. I always find myself learning something new with our every interaction. Raff has a very thoughtful and creative way of thinking, and he would be an asset to any organization he wishes to join!”

Delivered across time zones

Samuel Brousseau

Samuel Brousseau

CEO, ChanDye

“Wow, it looks great Raff! You've really improved the formatting, I'm impressed! You've done some great work and your communication throughout the process is amazing. It's very helpful to receive updates and showing me your draft for corrections was also a great idea.”

Full content overhaul

Victoria Salgado

Victoria Salgado

Copywriter

“I truly appreciate your work - you've lifted a burden off of the writers and the rest of the team. And I appreciate your conversation since it always makes the day much less boring. You're part of what makes the culture here so strong.”

In-house team support

Alina Yan

Alina Yan

Social Media Marketer

“Raff is an amazing teammate to work with! He's in constant communication with the team despite differences in time zones and he is always proactive in coming up with ideas supported by due diligence research. Something that I truly appreciate about Raff is his openness to feedback and his drive to do his work as best as he can. Raff also always comes in with a positive attitude that's contagious and brightens my day. Couldn't ask for a better teammate!”

Research-led social

Yelia Colin

Yelia Colin

Operations Manager

“Nothing bad to say about you, you've been doing an awesome job and as Diane mentioned, that's the reason why you're still in ZenChange. The time I've been working with you has been great, it's hard finding people with your work ethic. I'm not going to lie, ever since I started working here I knew you were one of the top performers, and I could say that indeed you're always making sure things get done, always sending messages, and following up so tasks get completed.”

Rated a top performer

SEO for Food & Packaging

Food & Packaging SEO Questions, Answered

Not covered here? Ask me directly .

Is SEO worth it for a B2B food or packaging supplier?

Usually, yes. Search volumes are small, but buyers are high value and competition is often weak, so ranking for specific product and specification searches can bring in large orders.

We have hundreds of products. Do we need a page for each?

Each product a buyer might search for by name or specification should have a crawlable page with full details. Near-identical variants can often share a page with options.

Our buyers find us at trade shows, not online. Why invest in SEO?

Buyers still search for you, your products and your competitors before and after a trade show. Being visible then protects the leads you paid to meet.

What content works for B2B packaging SEO?

Specification-led product pages, buying guides, material comparisons and compliance explainers: content that helps a buyer justify the purchase internally.

How long does B2B SEO take?

Narrow specification searches can rank within a few months. Broader category terms take longer.

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  • Where your site is losing people, page by page
  • The pages competing with each other, and which should win
  • Technical faults costing you visibility right now
  • What I would do first, and what I would leave alone

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