60% of the 3.3 million UK consumer online searches for hotels made a month ahead of the festive season were for lodgings domestically, reveals analysis of the latest quarterly search intelligence for the sector from digital marketing agency, Greenlight.
New figures from the IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index reveal that the online retail market grew by 16% year-on-year in May and by 5% on April 2013. The results are particularly impressive as they follow strong sales over the Golden Jubilee during the same period last year.
Price comparison site MoneySupermarket is using the search algorithm from Become Europe, to boost the relevance of its shopping channel.
Keyword research is a fundamental part of online marketing of all kinds- if you don’t use the words people are actually interested in and actively searching for, you’re missing a lot of traffic. Helene Hall, director of search at Gravytrain provides a 5 step guide to keyword research.
Yandex has revamped its personalised search, tailoring results around each user’s short-term and long-term interests, providing new channel for brands’ search marketing techniques in the process.
Google has bought crowd-sourced navigation app Waze for a reported $1.3bn (£835m), as the firm looks to extend its sat-nav tools.
The Telegraph has launched a new technology content platform in partnership with Wired.co.uk, bringing together the week’s top trending technology stories, to promote the BMW i3 Concept Coupé.
Yandex is letting brands add interactive functions into its search results, such as hotel bookings or flight check-ins, as the Russian firm looks to expand its ad revenues.
Twitter has launched Vine for Android, opening up its 6-second video format to a new market after getting 13 million users on its iPhone app.
Online gift retailing is big business nowadays. This guide from search and merchandising software provider SLI outlines search and navigation tips to guide shoppers to the ideal gift and drive more customer engagement and higher conversions.