Here is a chart from the ASCI E-Business Report August 2009 It’s all about customer satisfaction with Search Engines and it tells us a couple of things about the future. We’ve seen several reports lately about how loyal Google consumers are to Google and how they are generally heavy users of search. This report tells […]
Read MoreNothing on the Internet can stand still, you have to change, adjust, improve or become irrelevant. Google is getting pressure from Bing but I think Google is way ahead and now I see trying to get even better. Here is a recent blog entry from Google that links to a faster, better version of Google. […]
Read MoreFrom the Google Blog on July 24, 2009 This is just another advantage to local retailers advertising on Google. We’ve already seen in our studies that by adding the local dealer’s name to a keyword ad the click-thru-rates improve over a national ad and this will help even more. As a brand manager with a […]
Read MoreOne of the the things that it seems to take awhile for people to understand is how local search advertising is different from local newspaper advertising. Many people new to writing a keyword ad for Google Local immediately relate it to newspaper advertising and think you need to have a promotion going or it won’t […]
Read MoreAs we get more comfortable and gain confidence searching online, we enter longer search strings. More words in that little window. Trendspotting put together these observations to show how our search behavior has changed over time: Searching for 1 or 2 words has dropped while multiple word searches are increasing. The research also shows that […]
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