This morning, Merkle released their quarterly Direct Marketing Report, ahead of Google’s own Q2 earnings announcement and it makes for a bumper stat-filled reading. Of particular note are the revelations that: Google search spending growth has slowed to 22% as CPCs fall 9% Desktop PLA growth rate jumps while mobile growth is strong but slowing Shopping Ads traffic from Google image search and Yahoo surges Google’s expanded text ads have had only a modest impact The report covers the latest trends in paid search , organic search, social media, display advertising, and comparison shopping engines, so let’s cherry-pick some of the highlights… Paid Search Advertiser spending on Google paid search grew 22% Y/Y in Q2 2016, a slight deceleration from 25% growth in Q1.
Visit our Marketing Nerds archive to listen to other Marketing Nerds podcasts! Dan Fain, Vice President of Search Technology at eBay Inc., joins me for today’s podcast to discuss eBay’s proprietary search technology, which they use to help both sellers and users in search results.
Quietly, eBay has dumped Google AdWords sponsored text ads from mobile devices in favor of Bing Ads. The move was noticed by RKG, the agency’s Director of Research, Mark Ballard, wrote about the change today. EBay serves syndicated text ads at the bottom of category search pages as a way to..
Earlier this year, eBay was hit with a search penalty by Google. The loss of traffic resulting from that has been noticeable enough that eBay acknowledged it in a financial call this week, suggesting it may have cost up to $200 million in revenue.
As part of our coverage from the sold-out Searchmetrics x Search Engine Journal conference in San Francisco on SEO, content marketing, and analytics, I recently caught up with Jordan Koene of eBay to discuss the effects of click-through rates (CTRs) on search rankings. Jordan is a big believer of soliciting user feedback on how pages can be improved and then implementing that feedback to boost CTRs
Yesterday, Google began rolling out their Panda 4.0 update designed to punch low-quality content. That’s generated both “winners” who have moved up in rankings as “losers” have dropped down — and eBay might be one of the big losers.
Connected Glass was rolled out in New York and did so well, it has now been introduced in San Francisco. Connected Glass is a massive, moving window display in a mall with an interactive touch screen where you can walk up to the window and order, online from eBay, whatever is being advertised on the […] Author information John Rampton Managing Editor John Rampton is an entrepreneur, full-time computer nerd, and PPC expert. I enjoy helping people and am always online to chat +/@johnrampton Twitter Facebook Google+ LinkedIn The post What is Connected Glass?
Text messaging open rates are far superior to those on Facebook, email and even Twitter, according to this latest infographic from SlickText.com. In addition, SMS coupons are ten times more likely to be redeemed and shared than mail or newspaper coupons. Almost all text messages are read within the first five minutes, they claim, which makes sense as the average person checks their phone over 150 times per day.
Google has deep pockets and probably would be happy if Facebook, eBay and Craigslist were part of its empire … but last I checked, they’re all separate companies.
Last month, I touched on several ways that businesses could use apps as an alternate channel to reach mobile searchers. Online retailers have a couple opportunities to use apps in this way, by tapping into the eBay and Amazon marketplaces. Let’s take a closer look at eBay, and some strategies..