Search Engine Optimization
February 4, 2021 at 5:01 pm
To say that the COVID-19 pandemic has had massive consequences on the retail industry would be an incredible understatement. From bankruptcies to widespread contractions in operations, the retail industry has been at the center of the COVID-19 economic crisis since the beginning of the outbreak. And beyond just the operational difficulties they’ve had to face,…
February 4, 2021 at 4:46 pm
In this episode of Retail Right Now, Total Retail's Melissa Campanelli and Kristina Stidham discuss an article recently published on Total Retail titled, “SEO Might Be Dead But ‘E-A-T’ing Right is Alive and Well,” authored by Steven Clayton, founder and CEO of NetBlaze. Google made major changes to its search algorithms back in May 2020 that have…
January 31, 2021 at 6:35 pm
Search engine optimization, as many retailers might know, died a natural death in May 2020 when Google made major changes to its search algorithms. This “Core Update” effectively gave more weight to Google’s E-A-T (Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness) principles. Google introduced E-A-T as guidelines for its human search quality raters and subsequently published these guidelines to “help…
November 17, 2020 at 10:16 am
It’s been a year of disruption for all of us, and the retail sector is no exception. Online sales will be more important than ever to ensure a strong Q4. Therefore, here are some key retail search engine optimization tips designed to make the most of the holiday shopping opportunity. 1. This year more than…
November 12, 2020 at 11:53 am
Although this is a holiday shopping season like no other, retailers should market with confidence knowing they have pre-holiday data to help them not only understand how consumers are likely to act, but how they’ll search. In order to keep up with the shifts in what shoppers search for online, fast-moving retail teams are quickly…
October 14, 2020 at 12:55 pm
Holiday shopping may kick off even earlier for consumers this year. Recent spikes in new COVID-19 cases have many shoppers worried that brick-and-mortar stores will close again this fall. And that fear is driving consumers to their laptops and phones to check off items on their holiday gift lists. The retail industry’s unpreparedness for the…
August 6, 2020 at 3:00 pm
In this episode of Retail Right Now, Total Retail's Ashley Chiaradio and Kristina Stidham discuss an article recently published on Total Retail titled, “How Amazon is Dominating Google Searches (And What Retailers Can Do About it),” authored by Tyson Stockton, vice president of client services at Searchmetrics. Amazon.com is the first place most U.S. consumers go…
July 28, 2020 at 12:38 pm
Statistics show that Amazon.com is already the first place most U.S. consumers go when they start to research product purchases online. And now a new study by Searchmetrics shows just how hard Amazon is working to lure consumers away from other retailers when people search for products on Google. Essentially, Amazon occupies a variety of…
July 8, 2020 at 7:33 pm
Over the past two decades, we’ve seen millennials put retailers through a loop. As retailers urgently set up e-commerce sites and slowed down their physical footprint, many people believed millennials would be the “death of retail.” Today, Generation Z is bringing balance to both online and offline retail models. Gen Z consumers will hold over…
June 24, 2020 at 5:34 pm
Search engine optimization has a direct impact on where your website appears in search engine results pages (SERPs), so the better optimized your site is, the more visibility it's likely to achieve. However, a one-size-fits-all approach to SEO doesn’t suffice when targeting new international markets. Your strategy needs to be adapted to each new territory…
