Who knows maybe original image sites might be higher quality whereas a site that just repeat the same stock photos over and over again might not be nearly as high quality. A new Google Webmaster help video with Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts...
For instance, having a blanket redirect to your mobile homepage when the site detects a user is on a smartphone, despite the fact they have clicked on a deep link, has now been called out as an explicit no-no (see diagram below for what not to do).
A lot of bad traffic coming to the site (bots/"search" pages de-indexed) had been removed, so year-over-year organic traffic was going to show a decline. Getting back into this mind-set, we filtered out all "bad" organic search traffic (0 percent...
In travel segment, a lot of people were looking for price points, book now, percent off, coupons, savings, as well as “official site” in the ad title and description. In another example, he showed how you can do a search for a type of restaurant...
So you can work to build a link from their site to yours, which will clue Google into your own local authority Ask to interview them based upon a local topic they’re passionate about, then feature it on your site
So then later down the line in your customers' journeys, Fleck went on to say you can start to have promotions from an email standpoint to lead them to content on your site and begin to measure their level of engagement to build custom segments.
We can slowly see how Google's “most comprehensive data set of local businesses” can begin to map out entire experiences – not limited to SERP results, the majority of which are paid for, the remainder of which are a consequence of on- and off...
Assuming Google (or Apple) fails to put a functioning (not provided) like system in place for mobile secured searches to allow this traffic to get bucketed as organic in analytics programs, running this math on your own site now may be the last...
In addition, just as site speed has played a part in Google’s web search ranking algorithm since 2010, you can expect site speed to have an impact on the rankings of mobile sites, Cutts announced at the SMX Advanced conference.
I put together a list of the top 10 gardening and shed blogs in the UK and let people vote for their favourite site. Ecommerce site selling used sports equipment A more 'safe' move could be making a public announcement that your eCommerce site will...
A consumer's first exposure to your brand may occur through a display ad impression, but he may take no immediate action because he has never visited your site or heard of your brand before. Finally, he may conclude his purchase by visiting the...
CTR: Your CTR, or click-through rate, is the percentage of people that are clicking on your site in the search results. It doesn't just show you the breakdown of the traffic that made it to your site; it shows your traffic potential via impressions...
But you don't want to increase CTR by attracting non-buyers to your site; you aren't looking for "clicks at any cost. The Google search engine has a hidden side. Here's what Google shows me for that search term:
Russian-based search engine Yandex announced a revolutionary way for users to interact with the search results, giving them the ability to buy movie tickets, check flight status, make restaurant reservations, pay bills and more, without ever...
A few initial results included a significant drop in time-on-site and pages-per-visitor. This means that our lead form was doing a much better job of getting visitors to convert and they didn't have to look around the site as much.
With all that money being spent by retail advertisers on site traffic, it is reasonable to ask who is spending all that money in PPC, and how dynamic is the list of winners and also-rans. Retailers spent more than $2.3 billion on paid search...
Because search retargeting users have already been to the site and are continuing to make relevant searches in Google search, they will be more likely to see the brand name in the SERPs; therefore, we can successfully bid much higher and on much...
For instance, direct or bookmarked traffic is very expensive and labor intensive, so you'll want to ensure these high-priced referrals to your site are adequately tracked to calculate the true ROI of a campaign.
The Trusted Stores program allows retailers to display a badge on their site once they meet criteria from Google on areas such as delivery times and customer service, in order to give web users confidence they are a reputable merchant.
The one constant seems to be providing quality content - walking in the shoes of our site visitors and providing information that is valuable to them. SEW: Which social site do you think will be most important this year?