Search Engine Marketing

As the nation continues to endure COVID-19, consumers have shifted their buying behaviors. Consumers have gone digital as a result of the pandemic, and retailers must adapt accordingly. Data from a recently released report from SOCi found that while consumers switched to digital, so did multilocation businesses. It’s important to take a more in-depth look…

Holiday shopping may kick off even earlier for consumers this year. Recent spikes in new COVID-19 cases have many shoppers worried that brick-and-mortar stores will close again this fall. And that fear is driving consumers to their laptops and phones to check off items on their holiday gift lists. The retail industry’s unpreparedness for the…

In this episode of Retail Right Now, Total Retail's Ashley Chiaradio and Kristina Stidham discuss an article recently published on Total Retail titled, “How Amazon is Dominating Google Searches (And What Retailers Can Do About it),” authored by Tyson Stockton, vice president of client services at Searchmetrics. Amazon.com is the first place most U.S. consumers go…

COVID-19 is forcing brands to rethink their marketing spending, including their commitment to search. Looking ahead, they’ll need to consider all options as they return to data spending post-pandemic. One way to help them figure out what works best and decide where to allocate budgets is by taking a look at branded and unbranded search.…

Way back in 1995, Amazon.com made its first-ever customer sale. Within two short months, Amazon was generating $20,000 per week in the U.S. and countries around the world. Today, Amazon has become the go-to marketplace for more than 310 million customers, with over 54 percent of all product searches occurring on Amazon. In other words, Amazon…

By now, we know the overall impact of COVID-19 in the first quarter of 2020 on some of the larger players in the digital advertising ecosystem was not as bad as initially feared. This is broadly consistent with what Kenshoo saw in its quarterly reporting on the state of online advertising as well. However, it…

In this video, Editor-in-Chief Joe Keenan interviews Justin Silverman, co-founder of The Warming Store, an outdoor sporting goods retailer. Watch as Silverman discusses how the brand has been affected by the coronavirus pandemic, how operations and online sales have been impacted, and how Amazon.com's changing strategy during this time has helped increase sales at The…

COVID-19 has interrupted business as usual for nearly everyone. While social distancing is continuing to remain a necessity in most areas, it’s essential to continuously think about how to navigate a localized digital presence to remain top-of-mind for consumers. Consider how consumers are looking for local business information during this global pandemic — local search…

Every online retailer is in a competitive market. As an online retailer you’re not only competing for customers, you’re competing to be found in search engines. Without visibility in search engines like Google, Yahoo, and Bing, your store doesn’t stand a chance. Competing against big brands is difficult online because corporations have a large budget…

According to eMarketer, paid search ad spend will grow 22.5 percent to $13.12 billion this year, and retail will account for the largest share of search dollars at nearly one-quarter of the total U.S. search market. Two of the primary draws for that growth are Google Shopping ads and local inventory ads, as Merkle’s Q1…