Search Engine Optimization

Getting onto Google’s first page for important search terms is a necessary goal for retail brands. However, it’s getting even harder as Google now shows fewer organic links on page one for retail searches. Instead of the traditional 10 blue links, Searchmetrics’ analysis of thousands of retail results on Google indicates the search engine now displays, on…

Google and Mastercard reportedly drafted a secret deal in which certain Google advertisers had access to data that shows if an online ad resulted in a purchase in a physical store. Bloomberg, citing four people with knowledge of the deal, reported that for the past year, select Google advertisers had access to a tool that tracks…

In this episode of Retail Right Now, Total Retail's Caitlin Sullivan and Joe Keenan discuss how grill brand Char-Broil grew organic search traffic 110 percent in two years through a defined content marketing strategy, as well as of offer content marketing tips to help retailers and brands extend their reaches, increase consumer engagement, and drive…

Sales cycles for B-to-C retailers are short, but long for B-to-B — or so the common thinking goes. But some B-to-C sales cycles take time; grills, for instance. Consumers replace their grills every four years or so, giving merchants just two chances per decade to make a sale. Those are rough odds, especially when you…

There’s no denying Amazon.com leads the way with artificial intelligence (AI) in retail and e-commerce. The company’s advanced flywheel model rethinks how AI improves digital customer experiences (CX) and has ingrained the very idea of AI into how Amazon lives and breathes. Retailers may be intimidated looking at Amazon’s suite of new AI-powered products and…

As consumers continue to shift toward mobile shopping, e-commerce retailers must take a hard look at site performance to remain competitive. And speed really does make all the difference, as 53 percent of mobile shoppers abandon websites after just three seconds of load time. If that’s not enough motivation, ​mobile ​page-load speed will soon impact organic…

Consumer behavior has shifted. While many shoppers now prefer smaller, more customer experience-oriented retailers, at the same time, they value e-commerce because they believe it offers better choice, convenience and price. While more than half of today’s consumers are regularly completing transactions online, several industry experts are finding that customers still want to feel connected…

Google announced yesterday a new service designed to help retailers take on Amazon — and give Google a cut of their sales in the process. The service, Shopping Actions (formerly known as Google Express), gives consumers an easy way to shop for retailers’ products on the Google Assistant app and search via Google Search with…

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…

Now that we’re in the holiday season, brands and retailers need to ensure they maximize digital marketing strategies to help increase traditional brick-and-mortar sales. Research shows that sales via mobile devices are expected to reach $20.1 billion, a 45.2 percent growth, with mobile visits accounting for 49 percent of holiday brick-and-mortar store visits. What does…