F-commerce a flop? With no means to correct the situation, many felt Google was unfairly penalizing websites in the search results if they had questionable links aiming at them (some bought by less ethical SEO providers with the goal of gaming...
The mobile commerce avalanche Starting with Google’s big push on Google + and SPYW the industry began to push for empirical evidence on the relationship between social and search. Search grew and Google changed.
Unfortunately for e-commerce stores, 61 percent said they are likely to leave if the site isn’t mobile-friendly. Google offers a HowToGoMo tool to help webmasters find out. A recent Google survey of mobile users found that 72 percent of mobile...
One only has to look at the subsequent explosion of image orientated socially enabled shopping sites such as ShopCade, Fancy and Glimpse (from The Find) to see that e-commerce vendors are betting on being able to cash-in on a more visually...
At Glimpse, a new social shopping app by TheFind.com, they see things differently – and that’s the key to the next generation of F-commerce, says Director of Corporate Communications Usher Liebermann.
Any site drawing a substantial amount of traffic from Pinterest but losing out in the closing process should consider an audit of their e-commerce site and shopping cart to test usability. Another marketer, Jeffrey Zwelling from Convertro, writes...
The Curious Case of Social Buttons in E-commerce Social commerce revenue could reach $30 billion by 2015, say analysts from SocialMediadd. Most view social as a channel for awareness and brand building; they see potential for social commerce but...
Shopping search technology company, The Find, shared some research into the implementation of social buttons on e-commerce sites exclusively with SEW. So it seems like a mexican stand off between Google and Facebook button data and it could be the...
Havas Media Social 2011 Social Commerce Survey Note: For the clothing industry this will require smart e-commerce planning for discontinued items. Sources like Yelp, TripAdvisor and Citysearch had claimed that Google unfairly used their content.of...
Search is really good at commercial intent; I'm not convinced that social media and commerce have that same chocolate and peanut butter love. Last week I was lucky enough to speak at eBay's Innovate developer's conference in San Francisco where the...
Quick tip: If your site is e-commerce based, get an app developed. If your site is primarily e-commerce based have an application developed that directly connects your products to the instant consumer in one tap.
It has added online commerce offerings in local retail and restaurants, comparison shopping and travel, and folded them into its search engine, prompting complaints that Google is giving its businesses preferred placement in search results," the...
The ones who succeed will be those who most effectively wrap the e-commerce experience around each shopper, whether they come from Facebook or Google or a direct email link. It was the seventh consecutive quarter of year-over-year growth.eMarketer...
While Baidu is the market leader for general search in China, Taobao, part of the Alibaba group where Yahoo owns 40 percent stake in the company, is China's largest e-commerce firm representing close to 80 percent of the sector.
Mobile commerce is expected to reach $119 billion in sales by 2015 and device targeting is easier than ever: Google's mobile ad business, AdMob, has conducted a survey of 1,431 users to find out how people use their tablet (devices).
With Google making huge leaps and bounds in the augmented reality area with Google Goggles, it's not far-fetched to think that the risk of relying on Google Commerce Search 3.0 now, could pay-off in the imminent m-commerce (shopping via mobile or...
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There is real opportunity in e-commerce; since 2007 the growth of online shopping has nearly doubled and is estimated to have reached close to $6 billion in 2010. Google has entered the operating system market and Microsoft is stepping up its...
While Google is pinning our economic hopes on an e-commerce led recovery, let's not forget that offline activity still makes up the lion's share of purchase behavior. Or are we really looking to push our customers toward online (e-commerce...
Bob Tin, director of China Search, said they have been in talks with clients and those from the travel, e-commerce and jewelery sectors were keen and some are committing as much as eight-figure RMB annual search budgets on Baidu.
