Search Engine Watch contacted Andrew Davis, Director of Marketing at CPC Strategy to gain some more insight into how Google has been using merchant quality signals. Davis notes that many of these are "unconfirmed assumptions from dealing with the...
By now, everyone in the ecommerce search engine world – including digital marketers and content writers – knows about the Google Panda update or, worse, has been directly affected by it. Many businesses were taken off guard when it first hit and...
For many years, Matt Cutts of Google has been providing a lot of helpful information on search engine optimization (SEO). It’s a new product, so the major publications haven’t posted reviews yet and what you see are smaller sites, most simply...
Updates such as Caffeine and Google Panda reduced rankings for low quality sites and improved rankings for sites with great, innovation, and insightful content. After all, YouTube is the world’s second biggest search engine.also saw Bing begin to...
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? Over the summer, coming as a big surprise, in just five...
As a reminder, Google’s Distinguished Engineer Matt Cutts insists that these ratings don’t “directly” affect the search engine results. Also, these sites likely have an overwhelmingly negative reputation.
However, since search behavior is different in China, it's often a forgotten, yet critical link in an overall Chinese search strategy – and, according to Taobao, they are a “shopping search engine”. Tmall.com – a business to consumer online market...
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...
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.
Specifically, Google is under antitrust scrutiny for the way it displays links to its own vertical search services (e.g.shopping, travel, news), how it copies content from competitors for its own sites, having exclusive deals with AdSense...
Note that the car number is 10^100 (known as a googol in mathematics – the number 1 followed by 100 zeroes) and the car slogan is “I’m steering lucky”, a play on Google’s long-time “I’m feeling lucky” search option that brings searchers to the No...
Analogous to Facebook Connect, sites can authenticate users and their billing information with a simple sign in. Kenshoo will drive traffic to these sites, as it does best. Adobe will plug in as the analytics engine including metrics on what items...
Weitz tells Search Engine Watch "Initially, these buttons will surface for major sites in seven popular search categories, which include: airlines, couriers (e.g. Bing's partnership with other social sites, like OpenTable, seems to suggest that...
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...
Over the past decade we’ve been presented with every type of specialized search engine you can imagine: web search, vertical search, retail search, travel search, mobile search, social search, job search… the list goes on and on.
Google Adds Quora, More Social Sites to Realtime Search Results by Danny Goodwin Here's a recap of this week's columns and news stories for the week of April 24 to 30, as reported by Search Engine Watch.
Here's a recap of this week's columns and news stories for the week of March 27 to April 2, as reported by Search Engine Watch. Search Engine Optimization Although it was targeted toward sites lacking good content, many quality sites were also...
British SEO tools company, Linkdex, has released data to Search Engine Watch that suggests, in their assessment, that JC Penney's link buying strategy was simply just good business sense. The worst class of inbound link is from a Made for AdSense...
User Engagement Based Product Recommendations: Essentially a Google Labs experiment for a "users who viewed/bought this product also viewed/bought" type web app as is commonly found on many high end e-commerce sites.
Here's a recap of this week's columns and news stories for the week of March 6 to 12, as reported by Search Engine Watch, as well as search news and tips from around the web. Both major search engines admitted today they have 'white lists' of sites...
