30-second summary: Recent studies have shown that the “Zero Clicks SERPs” have been consistently growing over the last 10 to 15 years and no click queries are now a common part of the overall search experience. Unfortunately, there’s not much you can do about the ways search engines choose to display the information. However, there […]
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JavaScript rendering and the problems for SEO in 2020
30-second summary: Anyone working in enterprise SEO in 2020 will have encountered this web architecture scenario with a client at some point. Frameworks like React, Vue, and Angular make web development more simply expedited. There are tons of case studies but one business Croud encountered migrated to a hybrid Shopify / JS framework with internal […]
How to improve your digital marketing with competitor analysis
30-second summary: SEMrush have created the guide ‘How to Do Online Competitor Analysis’ to help you start looking at what your competitors are doing. Analyzing your competitors’ digital marketing strategy can help you optimize your campaign and your upcoming ideas to improve both your short and long-term wins. A website traffic analysis can help you […]
Google trends in COVID-19 times and how to use them in your content strategy
30-second summary: Google Trends can be an invaluable tool, as it helps to uncover opportunities for ecommerce brands, publishers, and local businesses. The real benefit to Google Trends is that it can help us understand and predict consumer behaviour post-pandemic. Additionally, we can see how categories are evolving. Some things the search trends have shown […]
Volvo’s Trevor Hettesheimer talks about how COVID-19 has changed automotive business
30-second summary: ClickZ and SEW hosted a virtual briefing, The Impact of COVID-19 on the Automotive Industry & Marketing with Trevor Hettesheimer, Manager, KPI’s, Analytics, Search & Planning at Volvo. There has been a sharp drop in automotive sales compared to the 2020 forecast in January, which predicted 16.8 million in total sales and 13.4 […]
How retailers can maximize the influx of organic search traffic to PDPs during COVID-19
30-second summary: While it has always been important to optimize PDPs, which serve as one of the main entry points to a site, it is a good time for online retailers to maximize the performance of traffic to these pages, ensuring high-intent visitors are able to find what they are looking for. Product recommendations are […]
Faster pages, stronger sales: Optimizing ecommerce site speeds
Research from Google suggests that the correlation between page load times and conversion rates is strong, especially on mobile web pages. One of the simplest changes you can make to your website is limiting the data loaded as a visitor navigates through product listings. If you can identify that pages are loading a lot of […]
Guide to get started with your ecommerce business
In a continued effort to slow the spread of COVID-19, local and state governments have issued orders for nonessential businesses and establishments to close their doors. These orders, combined with the lack of consumers making their way into physical stores, have had a major impact on small businesses across the country. Many brick-and-mortar small businesses […]
Comprehensive guide to exact match domains in 2020
Exact match domains (EMDs) are domain names that incorporate the exact keywords that you are trying to rank for in Google’s SERPs. Examples of exact match domains include: carinsurance.com buygroceries.com dogfood.com In some industries, people will call their company’s name after the product that they offer, for example, Window Cleaners London. But in the competitive […]
How to grow your YouTube rankings with the right SEO tools
We’re all aware that YouTube’s video consumption grows every year, so it’s kind of obvious that YouTube search engine is huge, possibly being outdone only by Google. There is also a simple fact: YouTube video content will always have lower competition compared to text. Still, to rank high, SEO matters. Optimizing for YouTube includes many tasks, and doing […]
