Who needs little things like the $700 billion US shoppers spend over the holidays when you’re Amazon? Four months before the traditional holiday shopping season kicks off, the online retailer is aiming to bank more than $1 billion in sales now, as its annual Amazon Prime Day brings Christmas-like shopping frenzy to July. While Amazon may suck all the oxygen out of […]
Even experienced SEOs are sitting up and taking notice: Is domain splitting the new big thing in SEO? The story of the erstwhile web behemoth about.com is sending shockwaves through the search industry. The portal is splitting itself into new, highly-specific websites – and with astonishing success. In this Unwrapping the Secrets of SEO, we […]
Odds are you haven’t followed the US Supreme Court’s recent ruling that’s struck down a ban on commercial sports betting in most states and is opening the floodgates to an estimated $150 billion market in wagers at casinos, racetracks, mobile devices and everything in between. In this Unwrapping the Secrets of SEO, we’ll examine how this tectonic […]
The world of search is evolving, with micro-targeting, voice search and accelerated mobile first initiatives upending the status quo and threatening to leave laggards to uncertain fates, speakers at the first Searchmetrics Summit in London said on May 9. The one-day search and content marketing conference explored how strategic SEO, technical SEO, digital marketing and […]
Tesla founder Elon Musk deems it more dangerous than nuclear weapons. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg believes the technology will help save us from ourselves. Whether you’re onboard with advances in machine learning, few doubt true artificial intelligence is coming sooner rather than later. Upgrading won’t be optional once the paradigm shift happens. AI will soon manage […]
Opening an e-commerce store is one of the best ways to sell the products that you love without the overhead or risk that comes with operating a brick-and-mortar store. That’s the good news. The bad? Since the barrier to entry is low, we’re seeing an untold number of e-commerce stores that are opening up online. In […]
David Graveline, an SEO industry professional, has been in the industry since 2010. As a retail and digital product expert, he knows a thing or two about what it takes to succeed in retail today, especially when it comes to balancing on- and offline efforts. In this Pulse of the industry, we share a recent conversation between […]
Quality content is king when you’re trying to get found on the internet. While you may be a word nerd who is a master at spinning the most boring of topics into a memorable treatise, it’s not going to matter if it’s not being read; you have to have a plan to get discovered. That said, one […]
If you’re only selling on Google, you might be missing out on half of your audience, says full-stack marketer Dustin Radin when he talks about the importance of listing a product on Amazon. In this interview with Searchmetrics Senior Manager Digital Marketing Holly Miller, he explains why having a strategy for only one of the big […]
It’s madness to predict a giant tourney outcome based on the numbers, right? Well, here at Searchmetrics, we’re all a little mad about March Madness. The betting pools have been filled, the brackets carefully (and not so carefully) chosen – and all that’s left now is the play. I partnered with our in-house data analyst, […]
