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Steps to Conduct Before Indulging into Full Fledged Shopping Engine Campaign 2008-11-25 13:02:10 It is true that comparison shopping engines help online retailers acquire new customers and drive sales. While choosing a comparison shopping engine, most online retailers don’t look beyond the advertising model and the cost incurred for listing their product catalog in the CSE. Besides these key factors, there are many other aspects an online retailer should consider and learn off pat about ea Read more:Campaign
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Shopping Engine Traffic Review for October 2008 2008-11-25 05:24:54 Nextag has been surging quite ahead in the list with a traffic rank of 18 from 65. This shopping engine had more than 32 million visitors in October
. How did Nextag manage to fetch so much traffic, especially during this period of economic meltdown? The other shopping engines have been more or less on the same scale when compared to the previous month.
It seems Pricewatch faced the brunt of th Read more:Engine
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The 10th Annual eTail 2009 Conference 2008-11-18 00:19:49 Top Speakers Highlight Upcoming Conference Focusing on Multi-channel Innovation for E-Commerce Executives
Wet Seal's CIO Jon Kubo and FAO Schwartz new SVP Direct to Consumer announced as Keynote speakers at eTail 2009 Phoenix. Brand New Retailer-Only Content Advisory Board introduced.
Worldwide Business Research (WBR) is pleased to announce Keynote Speakers and the Content Advisory Board for t Read more:Annual
Hidden Chargers may lead to Shopping Cart Abandonment 2008-11-17 02:02:09 It is disheartening for any online retailer when online shoppers abandon shopping carts before completing the checkout process. If you are an online retailer who has struggled hard to bring in traffic, designed website focused on accessibility and merchandised products that are attractive to consumers, it would be waste of your effort if a visitor adds products to the shopping cart, and then sudde Read more:Chargers
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“UNIQUE” is the Buzzword 2008-11-17 01:37:21 Is your website filled with content but yet not giving you the desired traffic?? It is said that ‘Content is King’, or is it?? If yes, then why isn’t your website the king in the Search Engine Results Page (SERP)?? What ingredient is missing from your content that is making it unpalatable for the search engines? Uniqueness! Probably, your website is flooded with duplicate or non-original con Read more:Buzzword
How to check backlinks of a website on search engines 2008-11-17 01:36:27 Most of the online business retailers think how to improve the search engine rankings of their website
for the best keywords. Two major aspects that influence the ranking factors areOn-Page OptimizationQuality Link Building - 20Ways to build LinksIn this article, let us discuss in detail about who is linking to your website?If you’re a website owner and want to know who is linking to your websit Read more:backlinks
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New UK player in the social shopping market - Tribesmart 2008-11-13 08:45:00 Social shopping engines have been gaining popularity and to add to the list is another UK social shopping site called Tribesmart. Though the site is in its infant stage, the homepage is well designed with the tango look. Tribesmart primarily focuses on six categories of products, ranging from home products to fashion and technology products. Among these six categories, the ones like “active” a Read more:player
Shopping Engine Traffic Review for September 2008 2008-11-05 08:17:57 September’s shopping engine traffic review does not seem to show any growth as compared to the previous two months. Pricerunner has been the worst performer during the month of September. There has been a steep decline in pricerunner’s ranking as well as traffic since June.
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Pricerunner’s ranking has dropped Read more:September
Shopping Engine Traffic Review for August 2008 2008-11-05 08:17:30 Augusts’ shopping engine traffic review show declining figures for almost all Sites as compared to the previous month. Though Bizrate is leading again this month in terms of both ranking and visits as compared to others, it has not been able to drive higher traffic than previous month (July month's shopping engine traffic review).
The ranking for Pricerunner have slashed down from 439 to 779. Read more:August
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Shopping Engine Traffic Review for July 2008 2008-11-05 08:15:55 This month’s Traffic Ranking indicates that Bizrate has been heading the list. Following Bizrate closely, is Nextag with around 17 million visits. NexTag provides comparison services across various categories like products, financial services, travel, automobiles, real estate, education and more.Next in the pipeline is Shopzilla, another leading comparison shopping engine. It provides Web retail Read more:Engine
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High Bounce Rate and Its Reasons 2008-11-05 04:42:29 You might have spent a lot of money, time and effort on various online marketing channels to bring visitors to your website, but everything would be in vain if most of the visitors don’t bother to look or navigate to other pages in your site. If this scenario sounds familiar, then you are dealing with high bounce rate and your attention needs to be fully focused on this catastrophe…well, almos Read more:Bounce
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An Odd eBay listing 2008-11-03 06:35:22 Selling items online is not about rocket science, it’s merely about coming up with creative ideas and strategies. The advent of internet and online tools and applications has definitely paved the way for smart marketers and sellers to market and sell their goods. These products could be anything from a common daily life product or service to something absolutely weird like the item mentioned bel
US Holiday Shopping Season 2008-10-31 09:09:08 This holiday shopping season, the United States might experience a deep decline in growth rates of online sales as compared to the previous year. The projected E-Commerce sales this holiday season is 32.1 billion, up 10.1% over 2007 sales. This projected sale excludes travel sales i.e. online travel, event tickets and digital download sales. Though the economic slowdown will leave its impact on on Read more:Holiday
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Economy Slowdown brings more US consumers online this Holiday Season 2008-10-31 05:38:44 The downturn in US economy has become the headline of almost all major newspapers & news channels. This economic slump has had a direct effect on the purchasing power of US consumers
who are aggressive & dynamic in their shopping behavior. As we progress towards 2008 shopping season, most US shoppers are now looking for more & more options of doing full-fledge shopping at very low pric Read more:Holiday
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Basic Search Engine Optimization Terms 2008-10-31 05:33:47 SEO has always been one of my favorite topics when it comes to Internet marketing. Out there in the blogosphere, you’ll find lot of SEO blogs that not only talk about advanced optimization techniques, but also cover the fundamentals of basic SEO. Despite the presence of so many wonderful blogs, many online retailers and newbie Internet marketing professionals are still not aware of even the most Read more:Basic
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Google Trends – A Tool to Monitor Search Terms 2008-10-30 03:45:45 I have been playing with the Google
trends tool for quite a while now, and it’s definitely addictive. If you are not aware of what Google trend tool is, then here is a quick snapshot about it…Google trends search term tool allows marketers to know the popular searched terms that were used since the beginning of 2004 till now. You can enter up to five search topics/terms to see how frequently t Read more:Google Trends
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Long Tail Keywords Boost Conversion Rates – Myth or Reality 2008-10-30 03:33:09 What are long tail keywords?
I am sure that some of you might already know what long tail keywords are. For others, here is the definition - “A long tail keyword is a combination of 3-6 words that are specific and relevant to the products you sell. In simple terms, any generic keyword that has product features, Model number, SKU no. price range, etc. can be taken as a long tail keyword.” (The Read more:Boost
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"powered by CSE" in UK 2008-10-10 06:28:18 US has always been in the limelight when we talk about comparison engines. UK is another breeding ground for upcoming comparison engines. This article caters to UK readers who are also fascinated by the comparison engines.
There are a lot of comparison engines powered by biggies and they are either review sites, portals etc that have a “compare prices” feature or just a usual plain vanilla
Britons- world’s keenest online shoppers 2008-10-06 03:18:38 The British love affair with online
shopping now even outstrips that of the US with around nine out of 10 British consumers shopping online at least once a month compared with around seven out of 10 Americans.
The nationwide study of Britain’s online shopping habits by leading price comparison site Shopzilla.co.uk commissioned to launch Shopzilla.co.uk’s first ever UK Circle of Excellence Awa Read more:Britons
PriceGrabber Review 2008-09-23 05:36:52 PriceGrabber.com is not something new to online shoppers; they would have heard about it almost a million times over. But why review this site which has been reviewed so many times. It’s because PriceGrabber has not only sustained itself in the market, but also attracted more visitors with its innovative features. The company powers comparison shopping functionality for a network of leading Inte
Comparison Shopping Engines offer more than just traffic to e-tailers 2008-09-02 05:51:38 The internet retail industry is crowded with too many online merchants and each would adopt a different channel strategy to promote products in the online market to reach potential buyers. You might already be aware of comparison shopping engine and its reasons for existence. Comparison shopping engines are one the powerful mediums for online shoppers not only to conduct research but also to find Read more:Shopping
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Email Marketing - SPAM trigger words 2008-08-27 05:51:10 Email marketing is a great step in the process of promoting new products, urgent sales, interesting offers and revolutionary discounts. Did you try to woe customers through email marketing only to find out that your legitimate commercial emails were caught by spam filters and hidden from prospective buyers? Spam filters are widening their net everyday to catch unscrupulous marketers. Commendable Read more:Email
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