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Avoid ‘saving money’ content if you want higher-end clients

October 1, 2017 12:15 pm Published by Comments Off on Avoid ‘saving money’ content if you want higher-end clients

How do you position your ecommerce products and services? Are your items, on average, more expensive than your competitors? Do you offer high-end, custom products that shoppers can’t find elsewhere? Or ...


105 Leading Social Networks Worldwide

October 1, 2017 12:15 pm Published by Comments Off on 105 Leading Social Networks Worldwide

Much has changed since 2015 when we last updated our list leading social media sites. Many more social networks have been launched. Some have been discontinued. This post will list all leading English-language social networks as of Sept. 2017. It will also indicate social networks that were added since the 2015 article, by placing “(New)” beside the name


Miva C.E.O. on New Investment, Amazon, Ecommerce Outlook

October 1, 2017 12:15 pm Published by Comments Off on Miva C.E.O. on New Investment, Amazon, Ecommerce Outlook

It’s been an eventful year for Miva, the pioneering ecommerce platform. Its longtime president became C.E.O. and the company raised $18 million of private equity, which is the first such ...


Affiliate Marketing Meets Influencers

October 1, 2017 12:15 pm Published by Comments Off on Affiliate Marketing Meets Influencers

The crossroads of affiliate marketing and influencer marketing is here. Merchants are testing ways to merge the channels to create sales. The word “influencer” was mentioned in a dozen session titles ...


Optimizing Your Mobile Presence for Natural Search

October 1, 2017 12:15 pm Published by Comments Off on Optimizing Your Mobile Presence for Natural Search

Google’s mobile-first index is coming in 2018. Search-result rankings for your desktop site will be based on the signals from the mobile version. Will you be ready? More people search Google ...


3 Ways to Integrate Products You Sell with Content You Publish

October 1, 2017 12:15 pm Published by Comments Off on 3 Ways to Integrate Products You Sell with Content You Publish

There is a subtle art to content marketing, to balance the need to sell products while offering audience-centric, helpful information. The value of that content must take precedence over short-term product ...


How to optimize featured snippets for voice search

October 1, 2017 12:15 pm Published by Comments Off on How to optimize featured snippets for voice search

When it comes to voice search, featured snippets are key. If a searcher is using voice search and expecting a verbal reply, they will not be presented with a choice of results - and where a featured snippet is present, this will be the result read out. So how can you optimize your featured snippets for voice search?


Google Search Console: What the latest updates mean for marketers

October 1, 2017 12:15 pm Published by Comments Off on Google Search Console: What the latest updates mean for marketers

Google Search Console has benefited from some significant upgrades over the past decade. That said, it is still far from perfect and few would argue that it provides a complete package in its current guise. Therefore, Google's recent announcement of some changes to the platform was very warmly received by the SEO community.


Baidu SEO: How to optimize for China’s biggest search engine

October 1, 2017 12:15 pm Published by Comments Off on Baidu SEO: How to optimize for China’s biggest search engine

Speak to pretty much anyone about SEO and the rhetoric will largely be in regards to the "Big G". But there are countries in the world where Google is not king, and one of them is China. If you want to optimize for the second-largest economy in the world, here's what you need to know about Baidu, China's primary search engine.


How to optimize VR content for search

October 1, 2017 12:15 pm Published by Comments Off on How to optimize VR content for search

Virtual reality (VR) has been the talk of the town for a little while now and its marketing potential is getting difficult to ignore. But despite the clear benefits of VR, businesses are still hesitant about diving in. Can VR content be found using search engines? Is it even possible to optimize virtual reality content for search? We take a look at how to do VR SEO.