Black Friday Is NEXT Week. Is Your Local Business Ready?

The holidays are right around the corner, and columnist Rachel Lindteigen provides helpful advice for how local business can prepare. The post Black Friday Is NEXT Week. Is Your Local Business Ready? appeared first on Search Engine Land.

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SearchCap: Matt Cutts Extends Leave, Google Day Of Dead Doodle & Local Black Friday Tips

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: 2 Creative Ways To Promote Vital But Infrequently-Searched-For Events With PPC No search volume? No problem! Columnist Pauline Jakober provides helpful tips for…

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Staying Competitive In PPC: Learning From Black Friday’s Most Popular Offers

The five-day Black Friday weekend from Thanksgiving to Cyber Monday provided an insightful glimpse into how retailers are running their PPC strategies for the holidays. Particularly interesting are the variety of offer types run by retailers, ranging from the expected free shipping to 2-in-1 offers…

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Google Shopping Outpaces Amazon Same-Seller Sales On Cyber Monday, Black Friday

Over the extended holiday shopping weekend, Google Shopping same seller sales have been growing faster than Amazon among large retailers. According to the most recent data from online retail commerce platform Mercent, Google Shopping contributed 54 percent year-over-year same-seller growth on Cyber…

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Paid Search Spend Surges 27%, Mobile Grabs 40% Thanksgiving, Black Friday Spend

Amid reports that brick and mortar sales were lackluster over the Thanksgiving weekend, ecommerce is looking like a bright spot this holiday season, with mobile devices playing an increasingly important role. Mercent, which powers major retailer campaigns online for brands including Brookstone,…

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Black Friday – A Cautionary Tale From An Online Retailer

Back in 2010, I wrote a post entitled,“Black Friday? Bah! Cyber Monday? Humbug!” in which I did a fair amount of righteous ranting about the over commercialization of holidays. My main point, however, was that I believed then, and still believe now, that we marketers have been training…

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The Searcher’s Guide To Black Friday, Cyber Monday & Holiday Shopping

This year, U.S. shoppers now have more opportunities than ever to join the throngs scrambling to secure holiday bargains, thanks to many brick and mortar stores opening ever earlier and staying open ever longer. Black Friday, the traditional post-Thanksgiving sales lollapalooza, has become a…

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