
Social Beats Search In Referral Traffic For Second Time This Year
There’s a chart at the top of BuzzFeed’s interesting new insights site that caught our eye. It shows the social media has surpassed...

2014 Black Friday & Cyber Monday E-Commerce Report: Online Orders Up 15.7% Over Last Year
According to the National Retail Federation, in-store sales for the holiday weekend proved disappointing, but that doesn’t appear to be...

Think Cross-Channel For Your Holiday Paid Search Campaign
Most paid search teams have probably completed their initial holiday planning and preparation by now. This may include creating a...

Pinterest: The Social Search Goldmine
Search marketers have always understood and appreciated the incredible ranking power behind social media properties. Sites like YouTube,...

Don’t Ask For Faster Horses: Embrace Revolutionary Change In Digital Marketing
Henry Ford once allegedly said, “If I had asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse.” The point of the...

5 Old-School Sales Techniques We Need To Bring Back To Online Marketing
“Old-school sales techniques” sounds a little bit like a throwback to telemarketer tactics or the methods of the proverbial used car...

Report: Mobile Grabbed One-Third Of Global Search Spend In Q3
A third of all paid search spend went to mobile in the third quarter of 2014, an increase of 180 percent year-over-year. Mobile search...

When To Fire Your SEO Agency
These days, most businesses with a website recognize that search engine optimization (SEO) is key to getting discovered online, but not...

User Experience Myth Or Truth: The Three-Click (Or Tap) Rule
As a web professional, I believe in ongoing education and training. I attend industry conferences, webinars, and other events on the...

How Google’s Latest “Panda” Algorithm Should Change Your Content Strategy
Panda “4.1” — another iteration of Google’s algorithm aimed at low-quality web content — hit on September 25, and some brands saw upward...

Get Ready For Next Gen Search By Exploring The Google-Initiated Physical Web Project
In 1990, Tim Berners-Lee developed a way to connect text documents stored on different computers together via hyperlinks. That project...

WSJ: Search Engines Ignoring FTC Rules About Labeling Search Ads
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) has implicitly issued a challenge to the FTC. Covering alleged non-compliance with the FTC’s 2013 directive...

Night Owls: One-Third Of Google Product Searches Happen In The Wee Hours
With devices at our fingertips round-the-clock, perhaps it shouldn’t shock anyone that product searches are occurring at all hours of the...

Seizing The Mobile Opportunity For The Holiday Season
About a year ago, AdWords introduced Estimated Cross-Device Conversions to give advertisers a better sense of what different device types...

Optimizing Your Paid Search Bids Around The Holiday Rush
However, this surge in sales mean retailers are often pulled in several different directions, strapped for time, and more likely to fall...

How A Google Mistake That Killed BuzzFeed’s Traffic Turned It Into A Social Media Powerhouse
What helped turn BuzzFeed into a site that is the poster child for riding social media into massive popularity and traffic? Ironically,...

How Digital Is Shaping Auto Marketing
Over the last several years, the U.S. auto industry has seen an immense rebound after the recession and bailouts of 2008. According to...

Up Close @SMX East: What I Wish CMOs Knew About Search Marketing
Few, if any, CMOs have a deep understanding of search marketing. That means communicating the value of your search marketing efforts is...

Mobile Visual Search Bridging The Gap Between The Real & Digital World
People are relying more and more on mobile devices to help them navigate their daily lives. Whether it’s finding a place to eat,...
























