Topic: Black Friday

Cookie ‘Black Friday’ Instagram Users With Facebook Custom Audiences

In this week’s edition of aimClear’s Psychographic Targeting Hot House, Rachel Malone-Olson, Social Account Manager, delivers Black Friday cookie pools wrapped and ready for promotion. Facebook delivered mid-August with Website Clicks and Mobile App Install campaigns that are able to display ads in Instagram with Facebook targeting. Facebook’s targeting capabilities + Instagram’s visual prowess = […]

SearchCap: Google Search Queries, Mobile Snippets & Bing Ads Lag

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Bing Ads Reduces Campaign Reporting Lag To 1 Hour Impression and click performance data is now delivered much faster. Thanksgiving Drove Retailers’ Highest Paid Search Revenue Gains Of The Holiday Season […]

Ahead Of Black Friday, Google Adds Shopping Details For Mobile Users

Google says that shopping searches from smartphones have increased 3.5 times compared to last year and that Google Shopping is already sending more mobile traffic to retailer sites than it did during the first week of December last year. To capitalize on this growth, Google is now providing more detailed product information available from Google […]

Google Adds New Shopping Campaigns Tools: Auction Insights, Diagnostics Tab And More

Strange things happen during the holiday shopping frenzy — search queries sky rocket and inventory fluctuates as demand surges on certain days. Managing spikes in search volume on brand and product queries and ensuring product feeds accurately reflect inventory pose particular challenges. Today, Google announced updates to help retailers keep their Shopping campaigns running smoothly. […]

Target App Now Features In-Store Product Search And Inventory Maps

Just in time for the frenzied holiday shopping season, Target is introducing product inventory search into its mobile app. The functionality is powered by Point Inside but doesn’t rely on beacons or other indoor location technologies. Following a 40-store trial earlier this year, Point Inside announced this morning that Target will be rolling out its “StoreMode” product inventory search […]

SearchCap: Matt Cutts Extends Leave, Google Day Of Dead Doodle & Local Black Friday Tips

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: 2 Creative Ways To Promote Vital But Infrequently-Searched-For Events With PPC No search volume? No problem! Columnist Pauline Jakober provides helpful tips for campaigns focused on low search volume, high conversion […]

Report: Search Engines Responsible For 40% Of Holiday Traffic To Retailer Websites

As part of its Consumer Insights webinar last week, marketing services firm Experian revealed search engines were responsible for driving more than 40 percent of upstream traffic to Hitwise 500 Retailer websites during the 2013 holiday season. While still representing the largest share, Experian reported search engines experienced a 13 percent drop in the amount […]

Google Shopping Outpaces Amazon Same-Seller Sales On Cyber Monday, Black Friday

Over the extended holiday shopping weekend, Google Shopping same seller sales have been growing faster than Amazon among large retailers. According to the most recent data from online retail commerce platform Mercent, Google Shopping contributed 54 percent year-over-year same-seller growth on Cyber Monday, while Amazon achieved 23 percent same-seller growth compared to Cyber Monday 2012. […]

Paid Search Spend Surges 27%, Mobile Grabs 40% Thanksgiving, Black Friday Spend

Amid reports that brick and mortar sales were lackluster over the Thanksgiving weekend, ecommerce is looking like a bright spot this holiday season, with mobile devices playing an increasingly important role. Mercent, which powers major retailer campaigns online for brands including Brookstone, Office Depot and HSN reports same seller online sales increased 40 percent on […]

SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 29, 2013

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Black Friday – A Cautionary Tale From An Online Retailer Back in 2010, I wrote a post entitled,“Black Friday? Bah! Cyber Monday? Humbug!” in which I did a fair amount of […]

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Black Friday – A Cautionary Tale From An Online Retailer

Editors’ note: This column has been removed because retailer Harry & David apparently threatened legal action against a former employee quoted in the article. The company apparently claimed that, despite her having been given permission to speak about these issues at a public gathering, in hindsight, the company doesn’t want them discussed. We like that […]

The Searcher’s Guide To Black Friday, Cyber Monday & Holiday Shopping

This year, U.S. shoppers now have more opportunities than ever to join the throngs scrambling to secure holiday bargains, thanks to many brick and mortar stores opening ever earlier and staying open ever longer. Black Friday, the traditional post-Thanksgiving sales lollapalooza, has become a 24-hour slog for many retailers. And some retailers, impatient to lure […]