You could ask them to join individual associations – the local chamber of commerce for example. Many of these sites, associations and groups allow you to post profiles, post links and engage with members online.
Alibaba quietly unveiled Aliyun Search, a product developed by the Chinese ecommerce giant’s cloud unit recently, a move that could have huge implications for Baidu and e-commerce in the country. If Aliyun becomes the default engine for online...
They could start with low-hanging fruit like the associations they are members of, the local chamber of commerce, and other organizations they have relationships with. Since relevant and powerful links increase SEO strength, it’s important to...
Launch of NSTIC at US Chamber of Commerce Meeting (long but important) The other claim to fame for the NSTIC, the big sale, is that you will be anonymous to the sites you visit. The NSTIC (National Strategies for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace...
That’s what happened when Brian Christian wrote about the A/B test — the technology behind some of the biggest e-commerce online. They’ll challenge every fundamental by testing it because they know that just because something has worked over 60...
The mobile commerce avalanche Updates such as Caffeine and Google Panda reduced rankings for low quality sites and improved rankings for sites with great, innovation, and insightful content. Regardless of your type of business, practices, and...
This accelerates as we enter the biggest shopping season in the biggest year of retail evolution since birth of e-commerce. ComScore Senior Director Matt Archer says mobile's share of retail e-commerce is on pace to reach double digits for the...
Research and e-commerce companies give us a glimpse at the greater picture, though they do so through analysis of the data to which they have access. Online traffic on Cyber Monday increased 11 percent YoY, as the top 500 retail sites received more...
In the wake of Black Friday e-commerce reports, more than a few mainstream media publications have grabbed hold of one particular IBM finding and used it to proclaim, once again, that social media marketing is a fail.
Third parties such as social shopping app maker Glimpse have been offering solutions to specific aspects of the social commerce “problem” for some time, particularly the disparate data sets available to online retailers.
E-commerce sites should use average order value (AOV) here. Traditional keyword research tools have a hard time dealing with these mega sites, but it isn't impossible. Organic search is a continuously evolving channel, but it remains one of the...
Unfortunately for e-commerce stores, 61 percent said they are likely to leave if the site isn’t mobile-friendly. More information on the What Users Want Most From Mobile Sites Today report is available on the Google Mobile Ads blog.
These are sites like your Chamber of Commerce, local education sites, local news sites, trade organizations, charities, radio and news stations, etc. Many times sites like your Chamber of Commerce will lead you to other great local authority sites...
Links from good local sites like your Chamber of Commerce aren't likely to get devalued and the sites don't tend to change hands every year or become totally spammed up (only to then get devalued or deindexed.
In the meantime, however, they should also continue to exploit other channels of revenue like mobile advertising and social commerce. Internationally, revenue from social networks will grow an impressive 43.1 percent year-over-year in 2012, putting...
Social commerce revenue could reach $30 billion by 2015, say analysts from SocialMediadd. Why are spammers and malware authors clicking on Facebook ads that appear around the site to Like sites, rather than using the Facebook search function, where...
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...
Specific to e-commerce and aggregator sites, Cutts said, “They need to ask themselves what really is their value add? Google would seek to detect that there is no real differentiation between these results and show only one of them so we could...
Become a member of your local civic organizations, Chamber of Commerce, marketing groups, etc. Sites that turn up in a simple manual keyword search. Search for sites that should link to you but don't.
Social Commerce: Integrate an element of social commerce where you can so people can see what their peers, or how many others may have bought the same item. Below are my list of favorites to do just that in different niches and with various kinds...
