Video Views Up 85% Since Last Year
Pin It Amplify’d from www.reelseo.com WebVisible, an online marketing software provider, has released their Fourth Quarter report on the State of Small Business Online Advertising, and if there’s an overall conclusion from the findings, it’s that small businesses are having better success with online marketing than ever before. There are positive signs in the areas of search advertising, but the best news is how widely video is being embraced by the small business community. Search Advertising Works For Small Businesses The average small business...
read moreSearch Engines Take on SEO?
Pin It Somes interesting thoughts here… Amplify’d from tengoldenrulesblog.blogspot.com As we all know, the majority of the online world tends to optimize their sites for Google. And why not? Everyone wishes to be found inside the 900 pound gorilla of global search engines. It usually means a cash machine opening up for your business. So how do you get to the position were this cash machine is active? Usually this take place via Search Engine Optimization (SEO) on a web page/web site. Long gone are the days where “If you build it, they will come”. The truth...
read moreFacebook Likes Begin Ranking in Bing?!?
Pin It Amplify’d from blog.searchenginewatch.com Yesterday Bing announced that specific links that have been ‘liked’ by your Facebook friends will be highlighted in the search results page. This is a development from the separate set of Facebook results that occasionally appear for generic search queries. Although this feature is still being rolled out, a preview image on the Bing blog illustrates how displaying the Facebook ‘Like’ button may change visual indicators on a page and draw a user’s attention to different parts of a...
read moreHow To Find The Influencers In Social Media for Your Product or Brand
Pin It Amplify’d from www.freshnetworks.com 30 free tools for finding social media influencers So is there a way of finding influencers without paying for tools? In a word, yes. There are a plethora of free (or free to a certain level of service) tools that you could use to identify social media influencers. However, unlike the tools we tested in our report, very few of them work across the different social media platforms and most focus on one particular area of social media – mostly Twitter, but some also do blogs and forums. And, as with all tools, the data and...
read moreWhy Disney and Other eBay Partners Will Kick Your Ass In Best Match Search
Pin ItSo the changes are in full swing on eBay and now some of them are becoming very apparent on why they are being made. Case in point, with it’s recent round of changes eBay removed sellers ability to “buy” their way to the top of search on eBay. This process was called “Featured First” — Featured First would give sellers a chance (no certainty) to enhance the visibility of your items by appearing as one of the listings on the first page of search results in the Featured Items section. For this “chance” you would pay a hefty price. Well, I am...
read moreTheFind.com’s CEO Siva Kumar Speaks to ColderICE about eCommerce and Search
Pin It A very insightful discussion with the CEO of shopping search engine TheFind.com, Siva Kumar. While at ChannelAdvisor Catalyst Conference I was able to grab Siva and get this interview. Of particular note, pay attention to his outlook on eCommerce for 2010. It really is an eye-opening analogy TheFind is the vertical search engine for shopping that puts every product, every store, every sale, coupon and discount, right at your fingertips. No matter what it is you.re looking for, you can quickly find the lowest price, the best deal, the perfect gift, or that hard-to-find item. TheFind...
read moreBing’s Director of Marketing, Raju Malhotra Speaks to ColderICE
Pin ItComing off his talk at ChannelAdvisor Catalyst conference, I got a chance to talk with Bing’s Product Marketing Director. The launch of Bing has successfully revitalized the MSN search experience, with a goal of becoming “THE destination for all commerce-related searches,” what will that mean for retailers? Raju Malhotra is Director of Product Marketing for Bing, Microsoft’s Decision Engine for consumers. He is responsible for the strategy to make Bing as the starting point for all shopping decisions. He manages the customer experience from finding the right product at Bing...
read moreThe Evolution of SEO – Using Web 2.0 to Up Your Status and Ranking
Pin ItCharles is an ecommerce SEO expert who deals with online marketing for enterprise and small business application. Charles has run thousands of online marketing campaigns and launched hundreds of web sites. These experiences give him a pretty good feel about which strategies deliver the best results quickly and efficiently. Lumpkin is a huge believer in testing and market research. he likes to get into the market and understand it’s unique opportunities and weaknesses with as little time, money and effort as possible. This is #2 in the series of guest posts by Charles Lumpkin of...
read moreGoogle Get 71 Percent of Searches in November 2009
Pin It New York, N.Y., Dec. 9, 2009 – Experian® Hitwise® announced today that Google accounted for 71.57 percent of all U.S. searches conducted in the four weeks ending Nov. 28, 2009. Yahoo! Search, Bing and Ask.com received 15.39 percent, 9.34 percent and 2.65 percent, respectively. The remaining 52 search engines in the Hitwise Search Engine Analysis Tool accounted for 1.07 percent of U.S. searches. Percentage of U.S. searches among leading search engine provider Domain October 2009 November 2009 Month-over-month percentage...
read moreeBay Flexing Some Possible FREE Innovation In Search?!?
Pin ItToday I noticed this little testing of image and short data on eBay searches. The implementation would actually make things easier to find and compare. My only wish would be that this auto pop-up without requiring a click on it. eBay is calling this quick look and if you did NOT have to click it would make it really quick! That would REALLY speed up the buying process on the platform. LinkedTube Please Rate My Video with 5-Stars DSR’s Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Tell a friend...
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