When thinking about SEO, Bing's Duane Forrester emphasizes the importance of utilizing Bing Places for Business, "It can be a way to double dip in the SERP, as their Places listing data can appear, with them ranked up top in the organic stack.
Here's an interesting stat from Forrester: almost 1/3 of repeat customers are initiated from an email. Mobile and social have been among the most talked-about subjects for the last couple of years. But did you know that email plays a very important...
As a 2011 study by Forrester and iProspect illustrated, consumers who see your brand's display ads are more likely to search on your brand and/or category keywords. If you answer "very often", you're a digital marketer's dream.
If you're looking to increase your conversion rate, here's a roundup of a few popular countries online payment methods (according to Forrester Research): You may be doing everything correct in multilingual search – from translating your content...
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.
