Google is the web's most discerning user – Matt Cutts, March 2013: "What Google wants is what users want" and Bing is very close behind (if not in a slight lead thanks to Duane Forrester). His answer: write "awesome frickin' content"!
Forrester says workplace browser diversity is robust: IE at 40%, Chrome at 28%, Firefox at 25% – VentureBeat Enhanced campaigns get Google+ annotations and an upgrade center. And it sure was hard not to see Eric Schmidt.
A June 2012 report by Forrester for affiliate marketing platform Rakuten LinkShare found that affiliates are profitable for advertisers, drawing new customers, often triggering reconsideration and closing the sale.
Duane Forrester of Bing said in January 2013: My previous article extolling the death of keywords talked about developing intent-based topics and building content that connects with those topics – intent to content.
Thirty percent of all product searches now begin on Amazon as opposed to 13 percent on Google according to Forrester Research, and according to a separate report from comScore, product searches on Amazon have grown 73 percent over the last year...
He referenced data provided by Forrester and comScore indicating that allocation of search engine budgets is upside down. “Search sits at the core of online behavior. People spend more time on the Internet than watching TV.
This morning I caught up with Duane Forrester from Bing as he prepared to kick off the Reykjavik Internet Marketing Conference (RIMC), a two-day boot camp in Iceland featuring content focusing on search and social.
According to a comment from Duane Forrester on the Bing blog, you're also still responsible for managing your own canonical URLs. A new tool in Bing Webmaster Tools will help webmasters performing site moves.
In a recent presentation, Duane Forrester shared the following image in a presentation called “Tomorrow’s SEO”, which cites the relationship of social to content, SEO, link building, and user experience.
Over at Bing's Webmaster Center Blog, Duane Forrester's team has been working hard to help Webmasters develop XML sitemaps easier. In addition to revamping the design of Friends Photos search and changes to the autosuggest algorithm, Bing also...
In September 2012, Forrester analyzed Adobe, Google/DoubleClick, IgnitionOne, Kenshoo, and Marin. Forrester ranked Kenshoo as the leader, with Marin and IgnitionOne as strong performers. Forrester Analyst Shar VanBoskirk, author of the report, gave...
"Digital disruption is here," Shar VanBoskirk of Forrester Research announced during the day two keynote at Covario’s INFLECTIONPoint 2013 conference. Of all the brilliant minds in Forrester, VanBoskirk seems to have the best handle on search...
A Forrester study from January 2010 showed that a webpage with a video on it was 53 times more likely to gain a page-one position in the SERPs. But don’t worry, this post won’t be declaring that SEO is dead, dying, or even coughing up blood.
Rececently praised by Forrester Research, the SEO tools helped automate website optimization and keyword discovery. San-Diego-based Rio SEO has launched a new suite to augment their existing SEO automation tools.
In my initial outreach to Forrester, I had tried to persuade him to share some hot tips for how to do well on Bing. In case you hadn’t noticed, his counterpart at Bing, Duane Forrester, has been pretty active himself.
Although Forrester states "47 percent of online shoppers agree that social media posts from friends are helpful for discovering new brands, trends and retailers", advertisers still struggle to connect their social efforts to their bottom line.
Videos are 50 times more likely to rank on the first page of Google results, according to Nate Elliot at Forrester. If you aren't optimizing your videos to match what people are searching, your videos are likely to get lost and not reach their...
According to a recent case study by Forrester Research, Inc. And a crowdfunding campaign landing page, in simple terms, is a low cost content management and e-commerce system. Social channels like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and YouTube are natural...
These free webinars with Duane Forrester at Bing will give an insider’s perspective, so why miss out? It’s now easier to share your search results, to view your friends’ interests and photos, and to consider the wisdom of the crowd when deciding...
SEO is forecast to be a $2.2 billion industry, according to the Forrester U.S. 2012 has been a year of rapid change. The markets have changed, the search algorithms have changed, the SERP results have changed, and how we define what we do is changing.