Search Engine Marketing

No matter how you slice it, Amazon.com is currently dominating the retail space. In fact, Amazon accounted for almost 50 percent of all e-commerce sales last year. As a result, retailers should be doing all they can to take advantage of every possible opportunity to find success. One way they’re doing this is by leveraging Google…

In a presentation yesterday at the NEMOA Spring Conference in Boston, Anastasia Kudrez, lead educator at Google, discussed how data and search have transformed the retail and e-commerce industry, as well as how marketers can best reach new audiences in 2018. It's All About Search  "Consumers and searchers are more curious, more demanding and more…

Amazon.com is leading the way in consumer electronics (CE) holiday paid search spend, according to a report from search intelligence provider Adthena. Adthena analyzed the search engine marketing activities of 179 CE retailers such as Amazon, Wal-Mart, Target and Best Buy over a two-month period, October-November 2017. More than 370,000 search ads were analyzed. According…

Recently, I sat in a meeting with a retail marketing manager who was presenting on the performance of his paid search campaigns. With a wide grin, he proclaimed that in the last month his team had delivered a 20 percent increase in sales conversions while still remaining within the targeted CPA (cost per acquisition), which…

The heat is on retailers to become customer-centric. Customers have higher expectations than ever before, and competitors that reliably meet those expectations seize a reliable edge. The key is to put the customer at the center with cohesive data and purpose, starting at the top.

Findings from a new report released by BrightEdge show that 57 percent of website traffic is mobile and has overtaken traditional desktop traffic. The research also determined that content is being presented to mobile and desktop users in completely different ways depending on the type of device being used. The report offers several strategies for delivering the best possible customer experience across mobile, tablet and desktop.

The ability to quickly and effectively find the right product is crucially important for online shoppers. Yet, according to research conducted by Baymard Institute, only 16 percent of top U.S. e-commerce websites offer a comparably good filtering experience. Most e-commerce retailers rely on a faceted search navigation as the most effective way to narrow down…

As kids head back to school and promotions begin to wind down, AdGooroo has examined back-to-school (BTS) paid search advertising over the last month, analyzing U.S. Google desktop text ad and product listing ad clicks on 278 non-branded BTS-related keywords from July 29 through August 27. Included among the BTS keywords we analyzed were terms…

Beacons quickly became the sexy, shiny object that retailers wanted to add to their marketing strategies. For the uninitiated, the devices are small, unobtrusive and can help brands collect customer data that's more accurate than traditional location tracking. So what’s the problem? The hype cycle for beacons has waned, with little return on the heavy…

Beacons quickly became the sexy, shiny object that retailers wanted to add to their marketing strategies. For the uninitiated, the devices are small, unobtrusive and can help brands collect customer data that’s more accurate than traditional location tracking. So what’s the problem? The hype cycle for beacons has waned, with little return on the heavy […]