How retailers can maximize the influx of organic search traffic to PDPs during COVID-19

Shana Pilewski, Director of Marketing at Dynamic Yield, discusses how retailers can maximize the current influx of traffic to product detail pages (PDPs) as a result of the COIVD-19 pandemic.

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Searchmetrics report: How Amazon and Google help each other

Searchmetrics take a detailed look at how Amazon uses a combination of organic and paid listings to vie for shoppers’ clicks, which strategies Google follows in the battle for product search, and how Amazon continues to fight back.

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Yext researches what American customers are looking for throughout the year

Yext’s analysis of the year’s search behavior shows consumers look to go to the doctor’s office in January, the dealership in May, the mall in December, and more.

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Luxury marketing search strategy, Part 2: Strategies and tactics

Marketing for luxury goods is a highly competitive space. Here’s a full guide of how to craft SEO strategies and tactics to maximize those results.

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How to: Add and improve related products in WooCommerce

WooCommerce is an exceptionally powerful, customisable retail CMS plugin for WordPress. As it’s WordPress, some organisations tend to reject it in favour of more complex platforms like Magento. While that’s probably a better choice for larger enterprise retailers, you’d be surprised by how much WooCommerce has to offer, especially for start-up retailers. With that said, […]

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Prototyping automated product feeds for retailers

I was recently faced with the problem of creating a series of automated product feeds for a retail client. The requirement – deliver a feed in .csv format that contains updated stock and pricing information from 3rd party sites. In this case, from a group of supplier websites for items that aren’t held in the […]

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SEO for faceted navigation

Faceted navigations are popular on ecommerce sites because they allow users to refine a large selection of products down to a more specific selection, helping them quickly find exactly what they’re looking for. However, the effects of faceted navigations on organic performance are often overlooked, leaving large-scale ecommerce sites with a set up that either […]

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Addressing site quality – why building great content isn’t enough

Over the last couple of years, there’s been a real focus on improving the search experience through quality-focused algorithm updates. Google’s making it harder for sites with a high ratio of low quality indexable pages to perform well organically. If your site has thin, low quality, low relevance pages, performance will inevitably suffer – now […]

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Retailers: Improve your category pages before building links to your site

Or, as I like to put it: sort out your category pages for an easy win. The default response to most SEO ranking challenges is “we need more links”. It’s often an uncontested view; and one I hear often. Much of the time, you may feel obliged to compensate with more links, but you’re really […]

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Pricesearcher: The biggest search engine you’ve never heard of

If you ask Siri to tell you the cost of an iPad near you, she won’t be able to provide you with an answer, because she doesn’t have the data. Until now, a complete view of prices on the internet has never existed. Enter Pricesearcher, a search engine that has set out to solve this problem by indexing all of the world’s prices.