Of the 41,548 advertisers who had paid search ads appear on either engine during Q3 2012, 42 percent (or 17,458) didn't record any ad exposures on YBN's first SERPs during the period. Shopping especially in the Shopping with AdWords campaigns...
When it comes to online retail in particular, we have been told that social will change the way people shop, presumably because recommendations from friends carry more weight than results from a search engine.
In 2011, Alibaba rolled out ETao, a comparison shopping engine that is said to have more than a billion product listings and over 5,000 business-to-consumer and group buying websites. Aliyun’s search engine would come in handy for these burgeoning...
PLA is a paid search channel and not a CSE (comparison shopping engine) channel. We’ve been hearing that consistently since Google Shopping switched to a fully paid marketplace in October. PLAs are hot!
PLA dominated traffic generation for Q4 2013, about 61 percent more traffic than the second highest traffic generating engine, Pricegrabber. Google Shopping's shift to paid cost per click (CPC) listings shook the ecommerce world this year, and...
I'm a big fan of Evernote, and use the program to record changes for comparison shopping engine campaigns. Be sure not to confuse AdWords labels with the AdWords_labels column in your Google Shopping data feed, which you can use to segment products...
Google Shopping’s recent evolution has brought quite a bit of flack on the comparison shopping engine. It gives you the ability to elevate ad groups based on performance (categories, price buckets, etc.on a shopping engine where before all you...
The new features include an optimized user experience for tablet devices, a services and tools comparison shopping engine and a new forum for you to get any question answered. It's December so we have bundled a bunch of Search Engine Watch (SEW...
While Google Shopping is still a comparison engine, these PLAs require merchants to bid to be included. In response to comments about Bing's partnership with Shopping.com, Search Engine Watch reached out Bing, regarding paid results.
Launched August 16, Qihoo Search was the latest search engine to hit China and became one of the largest traffic sources in only a matter of days but where do they sit now as the dust settled? It is expected that the launch of 360 will radically...
Macy’s receives more search engine traffic than Kohl’s, and peaks in searches seem to be in the same place, specifically around holiday shopping time when they have an increase in ads. Search engine traffic is much higher for Trader Joe’s with a...
The shopping model operates as a pay-to-play comparison shopping engine, whereas the previous program was free of charge. To date, tens of thousands of merchants have made the switch; the inventory of over 100,000 online sellers now populate Google...
If an unethical individual does something to your site that's against search engine guidelines, you are still the one responsible for your website, and it will be your site that's penalized. For some reason, this is lost when people are "comparison...
Didit has acquired SEO, social and comparison shopping engine management company Inceptor from SuperMedia (formerly Verizon Information Services). They are specialists in comparison shopping engine feed management, in addition to SEO and social media.
In a phone conversation, Rosebrock told Search Engine Watch that there was an interesting technology challenge at the heart of image search – namely what it is possible for a computer to see and what is scaleable for a computer to return.
Google Shopping is a comparison shopping engine. How Google Shopping determines product ranking works exactly how comparison shopping engines (CSEs) do. The distinction between AdWords and PLAs is pivotal with the onset of Google Shopping, so it’s...
Each quarter, CPC Strategy gathers data from more than 4 million clicks and nearly $8 million in revenue to determine the best comparison shopping engine (CSE) online. Shopping.com (CPC) – Paid comparison shopping engine aggregates product listings...
Although this search engine isn't the best for shopping or finding a cheap hotel, it is a unique way to search for statistical data and a great way to find answers that might not be answered as quickly with other types of search engines.
For instance, rival search engine Bing pays to advertise when you search for [search engines], while Android competitor Apple pays to appear on searches for [cell phone]. Note to Katz: A more compelling argument could be made about so-called search...
What this means is that the free traffic merchants have been getting for nearly a decade through what was called Froogle/Google Base will no longer be free, and essentially turn into a paid comparison shopping engine.
