By most accounts, the holiday shopping season was an e-commerce success, with final tallies beating analyst estimates. Earlier this month, we asked e-commerce teams about their holiday marketing strategies — planning, budgeting and expectations — and what they did differently this year from last year. Nearly 100 respondents shared their feedback. The majority (57 percent) […]
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A little over a year ago, ahead of the 2016 holiday shopping season, Google enabled integrations between Google Merchant Center and three e-commerce platforms. Those integrations are soon coming to an end. Through the integrations, merchants using BigCommerce, Magento or PrestaShop could directly connect their product catalogs to Google Merchant Center. This week, Google began
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Last week Google announced that the Google Assistant was available on 400 million devices. At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this week it’s announcing new device partnerships. Amazon is also making announcements with a range of device makers. Alexa is being integrated into a set of expensive augmented reality glasses ($1,000) from Vuzix.
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When Google announced that campaign daily budgets could spend up to double their setting, some shrugged and others thought it could cause real problems. A few weeks ago, I asked people on Twitter if they had been impacted by the change and checked in with others who said they’d had issues. It was a mixed
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Forrester Research says that search marketing is poised for “a late-stage renaissance.” The firm, which also expects significant mobile, video and social media advertising growth through 2021, cites a number of factors behind its prediction for search-marketing gains. Among them, it says that privacy measures — especially the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and ePrivacy
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Image: Google This week, we spotted a new treatment for Google Express in the search results. This included two new elements: a promotion for the program at the top of the results and a new look for Google Express ads in the Shopping carousel. The “Get it with Google Express” promotion at the very top
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Google has confirmed what many in the search industry have seen over the past week, updates to their algorithm that are significantly shifting rankings in the SERPs. A google spokesperson told Search Engine Land “We released several minor improvements during this timeframe, part of our regular and routine efforts to improve relevancy.” Our own Barry
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As 2017 draws to a close, let’s take a moment to catch our breaths and look back at the whirlwind that was PPC in 2017. There wasn’t a big change that dominated the landscape like enhanced campaigns of 2013 or expanded text ads of 2016, but multiple trends created an atmosphere of constant, incremental change
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Microsoft is bringing the self-proclaimed “front page of the internet” to the pages of its search results. Microsoft has struck a deal with Reddit to pipe data from the social network into Bing’s search results, as well as Power BI’s analytics dashboard, the companies announced on Wednesday. Now, when people search on Bing, posts published
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