Web Optimization

Retailers’ Google Strategies Need to Get Niche-Specific
January 25, 2019 at 10:50 am

Retailers’ organic search strategies on Google should now be tightly tailored to the niche they operate in. That’s because artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are helping the search engine to pinpoint more clearly than ever the specific factors that best satisfy queries for different niches, topics and user intentions. This is the main takeaway…

5 Ways to Update Your E-Commerce Site in the New Year
January 7, 2019 at 12:04 pm

The New Year is a perfect time to give your e-commerce site the refresh that it needs. With the holiday season behind us, it’s time to prep for the year ahead, and an important part of that is getting your website up-to-date. Not only do you likely need to update products or service offerings, but…

How Not to Lose a Customer in 3 Seconds This Holiday Season
December 18, 2018 at 4:11 pm

If your store’s doors are locked, three seconds is all it takes for a shopper to rattle the handles, then turn around and go somewhere else. For many retailers, the holiday season is a time of both trepidation and anticipation. As both Macy’s and Lowe’s discovered last year with site outages due to overcapacity, it’s…

Addressing Your Retail Woes: How to Outshine the Competition This Holiday Season
December 14, 2018 at 10:50 am

The long awaited time of the year is finally here, and with giants like Amazon.com taking a stronghold on the market retailers will need to put their best foot forward to rise above this holiday shopping season. This year, Americans spent around $3 billion online between Prime Day and Labor Day, and Black Friday is…

Analyzing Black Friday and Cyber Monday Disasters
November 30, 2018 at 12:28 pm

Thanksgiving weekend has evolved into the biggest shopping days of the year, with Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals enticing people to purchase gifts early as well as items they’ve been coveting for months. This year, Black Friday online sales soared to $6.22 billion in the U.S., a 24 percent jump from a year ago…

Developers: Retailers’ Secret Weapon for the Holiday Season
November 28, 2018 at 9:35 am

The holiday shopping season is in full swing, with online sales records smashed yet again. Thanksgiving Day, Black Friday and Cyber Monday all saw record online sales this year, and the spending is expected to continue through the rest of the holiday season. While the sales numbers make exciting headlines, a group driving retailers’ success…

8 Rules to Avoid a Manic Cyber Monday
November 19, 2018 at 2:24 pm

Risking website performance is simply not an option. We’ve crafted a list of dos and don’ts for Cyber Monday.

Crate and Barrel is Driving Engagement With Interactive Product Imagery
November 2, 2018 at 1:59 pm

In this special episode of Total Retail Talks, recorded at the recent Total Retail Tech conference, Brian Schultz, senior director, e-commerce and digital product management for Crate and Barrel, gives a presentation on how the furniture and home decor retailer is using computer-generated imagery (CGI) on its website and in marketing materials to cut costs and…