Offering free shipping has increasingly become necessary for all ecommerce businesses; consumer have now come to expect it, based on their experiences with Amazon, Zappos, and other sites. For some pure play ecommerce sites, the search results...
Nearly 39 billion video content views occurred during the month, with Google sites generating the highest number at 13 billion and Facebook reaching an all-time high once again with 740.8 million. Google sites had the highest average engagement...
How about where your sites are linking externally? Where are you linking to and are you linking to other sites you own? Not only can these sites be doing things on your site that could be causing you "hack" issues, but also sending links to their...
This is good for news aggregators and other sites that reuse content appropriately and have been hit hard by the Panda filter. Forward-looking webmasters can prepare their sites for Penguin 2014, 2015, and beyond with well-researched, end-user...
The law, which targets search engines that provide snippets, originally would have given news sites the ability to seek monetary compensation for the supposed lost revenue caused by Google and other search engines when using those snippets.
Use Google to find target sites. Because you're going to represent yourself as a real human being and put in the time and effort, you want to make sure you're only listing sites that are curated by real people.
I don't use Chrome, I have a Gmail account only out of necessity, almost never using it, and I often sign out of Google when working on my clients' sites. Yet, while signed out, I still find myself targeted by ads for sites I visited when I was...
Drive Traffic Through Different Sites You can recognize and reward them through contests or sneak peeks at upcoming product lines while also getting valuable insight about your business and adding a human touch to the online experience.
The book progresses to creating sites and pages with an emphasis on SEO. Not stopping at technical SEO, Jones includes content on creating blogs and other online communities. The third edition adds information about connecting with Pinterest and...
In doing so, these videos can then become visible to target connections on important B2B social networking sites like Google+, LinkedIn, and Twitter. And content that is feature-rich, like online video (YouTube – a Google product) and images...
Even Google noted last year that 65 percent of online searches began on a smartphone. Amazon is doing a great job to capture the shoppers frustrated with experiences on other retailer's mobile sites. A recent survey by Telemetrics and xAd showed...
With the increased popularity of Adobe TypeKit and Google Web Fonts, typographers are alive and well online today. In contrast, non-competitive sites can sometimes "win" when just one or two things right.
Going forward, the EFF said that it hopes social networking sites and web application developers will continue to work to make sure that users are given protections and that data is handled responsibly when working with governments.
Transaction intent data is comprised of all the information people reveal when they interact with other sites across the web, from the time they spend on a page to the items they put in shopping carts.
Google’s New Multiscreen World study, published last summer, showed similar stats when it came to how mobile plays into searches online. Dinan says brands must continue to look at ways to meet expectations of mobile users, which includes creating...
Ahrefs has a feature called "linked domains," where you can see which sites a domain is linking to. So if you’re looking for more link ideas, figure out which sites and documents these schools are linking to and why.
What is being done to detect and remove results from larger sites when they don't have unique content that is relevant to a query (e.g.yelp.com results with no reviews, Facebook "business" pages that weren't actually created by the business)?
In March 2013, Google sites, driven primarily by video viewing at YouTube, ranked as the top online video content property with 153.9 million unique viewers, followed by Facebook with 63.8 million, VEVO with 52 million, Yahoo sites with 50.3...
Brands are looking beyond social media giants like Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ to more niche sites such as Pinterest, which puts a big emphasis on visuals. See the following thread about online piracy in the age of free sharing of information...
But have you ever thought which of those sites statistically provides the best content? Or have you ever wondered if what people on these sites write about ever really changes? I wanted to know which industry sites had most frequently posted...
