Search Engine Marketing

Using online search data from 2018, Conductor identified the leading brands in retail search and the strategies they're employing to own key market share on Google and beyond. Conductor tracked over 100,000 search terms that consumers used to find retail products and information in 2018 using the Conductor Searchlight platform. In aggregate, these search terms represent nearly 300 million searches per month on average by consumers. This report breaks down the details around the retail customer journey, mobile search and key subcategories, and showcases the insights and strategies behind those successes.

Google and Mastercard reportedly drafted a secret deal in which certain Google advertisers had access to data that shows if an online ad resulted in a purchase in a physical store. Bloomberg, citing four people with knowledge of the deal, reported that for the past year, select Google advertisers had access to a tool that tracks…

There’s no denying Amazon.com leads the way with artificial intelligence (AI) in retail and e-commerce. The company’s advanced flywheel model rethinks how AI improves digital customer experiences (CX) and has ingrained the very idea of AI into how Amazon lives and breathes. Retailers may be intimidated looking at Amazon’s suite of new AI-powered products and…

Consumer behavior has shifted. While many shoppers now prefer smaller, more customer experience-oriented retailers, at the same time, they value e-commerce because they believe it offers better choice, convenience and price. While more than half of today’s consumers are regularly completing transactions online, several industry experts are finding that customers still want to feel connected…

In real estate, the saying is “location, location, location.” But what good is location if consumers can’t find their way to your company's front door? A reported 1 billion monthly users — more than 40 percent of all online users worldwide — rely on Google Maps to deliver basic information, including directions and the best…

No matter how you slice it, Amazon.com is currently dominating the retail space. In fact, Amazon accounted for almost 50 percent of all e-commerce sales last year. As a result, retailers should be doing all they can to take advantage of every possible opportunity to find success. One way they’re doing this is by leveraging Google…

In a presentation yesterday at the NEMOA Spring Conference in Boston, Anastasia Kudrez, lead educator at Google, discussed how data and search have transformed the retail and e-commerce industry, as well as how marketers can best reach new audiences in 2018. It's All About Search  "Consumers and searchers are more curious, more demanding and more…

Amazon.com is leading the way in consumer electronics (CE) holiday paid search spend, according to a report from search intelligence provider Adthena. Adthena analyzed the search engine marketing activities of 179 CE retailers such as Amazon, Wal-Mart, Target and Best Buy over a two-month period, October-November 2017. More than 370,000 search ads were analyzed. According…

Recently, I sat in a meeting with a retail marketing manager who was presenting on the performance of his paid search campaigns. With a wide grin, he proclaimed that in the last month his team had delivered a 20 percent increase in sales conversions while still remaining within the targeted CPA (cost per acquisition), which…

The heat is on retailers to become customer-centric. Customers have higher expectations than ever before, and competitors that reliably meet those expectations seize a reliable edge. The key is to put the customer at the center with cohesive data and purpose, starting at the top.