Find people behind the websites: Instead of finding the source, find the people who run the website and start building relationships with those people. Use Linkedin to find like-minded people: Use the advanced filter on LinkedIn to find the people...
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. If Alibaba takes Yahoo’s search algorithm and combines it with...
Consumers spend more time on social networks than on any category of websites; total time spent on social increased 37 percent YoY this July, at 121 billion minutes that month. His comment was the topic of discussion in the final segment of SEW...
Similarly, websites which place analytics code at the top of the website could be registering a visit before the page has fully loaded. There are many more examples, and even traditional websites may benefit from the method described below as...
Cazier then removed non-US TLDs from their dataset and used comScore’s “category definition” to determine which websites composed a vertical. The impact of these updates is measurable on individual websites simply through analysis of web traffic.
How will websites react when not only metadata, but complete fact sets, are pulled from their pages and displayed on the Google results page, making click-throughs to the actual results redundant? ChaCha Director Jeff Jockisch points out in a...
Search Engine Watch also learned about the Bamboo Update, to restore websites rankings from Google's Panda update. In a post on the YouTube Blog, Chet Flanagan, director of DVD product management, asked, “Loved a video so much that liking it...
Usher Lieberman, Director of Corporate Communications at The Find, concludes from the research that the leading companies (among the top 100) are showing signs of shifting towards buttons that indicate a stronger degree of social preference.
I have to say, I've been fascinated by the response from, what I guess, is an audience that was too young back in early 2000s to want to read about information retrieval on the web and how that relates to SEO, and how websites that have the most...
We take those same websites that self important VP's of Marketing, CEOs and VCs assume is high quality with their even more esoteric internal calculations (put simply, their own irrational sense of quality), and re-engineer the site to meet Google...
Over at online competitive intelligence firm Hitwise, Research Director Heather Dougherty took a look at 10 key stats from the web-wide SOPA also slowed to a lesser extent, by 11.23 percent. As announced in advance by Google UK's Webmaster Trends...
Heather Dougherty, the Director of Research at Experian Hitwise, has written about a “Pinteresting Trend in Social Media. She says, “Pinterest, a site launched in March 2010 that describes itself as an online pinboard to organize and share things...
The Audience Network is a collection of partner websites that display LinkedIn Ads on their pages. Partner websites may include website publishers in the Google Doubleclick Ad Exchange. If you choose to run your ads on the LinkedIn Audience Network...
Research: Examining your existing website and your competitors’ websites to determine a list of potential keywords. They now have translated websites for 23 different languages and trade in 60 currencies.
Enterprise level websites create more problems for SEO practitioners not just because they are bigger, but because they add layers of complexity into each channel of their online marketing processes. For example, larger enterprise-level websites...
Heather Dougherty, Director of Research at Hitwise, says the anomaly is "likely due to visitors seeking news around the potential government shutdown and ongoing budget discussions. Dougherty adds, "One caveat to the 20 article limit is to access...
Nearly every CPG brand studied is leaving a sizable amount of paid search traffic on the table," said Heather Dougherty, Director of Research for Hitwise. The Top Ten CPG Websites receive 25 percent of their traffic from search engines, more than...
The research also found that many organizations are dissatisfied with the search functionality on their websites, and the extent to which they are harnessing knowledge from their site search tools. Linus Gregoriadis, Research Director at...
According to Heather Dougherty, Director of Research at Experian Hitwise, World Cup traffic increased 22 percent yesterday, June 23, 2010. US visits to Broadcast Media websites increased 6 percent on Wednesday versus Tuesday.
We are seeing a surge in online video watching that is driven by a combination of broadband access, the increasing use of social networking sites, and the popularity of video-sharing sites," explains Kristen Purcell, Associate Director for...
