| Welcome | Check Your Analytics - Google Instant Search is HereGoogle Instant Search first appeared to us during our live webinar on Wednesday,
"It's
All Relevant - Secret to High Rankings."
So, what the heck is Instant Search? Here is a note from
Google:
Google Instant is a new search enhancement that shows results as you type. We are pushing the limits of our technology and infrastructure to help you get better search results, faster. Our key technical insight was that people type slowly, but read quickly, typically taking 300 milliseconds between keystrokes, but only 30 milliseconds (a tenth of the time!) to glance at another part of the page. This means that you can scan a results page while you type.
The most obvious change is that you get to the right content much faster than before because you don’t have to finish typing your full search term, or even press “search.” Another shift is that seeing results as you type helps you formulate a better search term by providing instant feedback. You can now adapt your search on the fly until the results match exactly what you want. In time, we may wonder how search ever worked in any other way.
Let's show you a real world example:
I am looking for a
leather dog lead for my Golden Retriever Autumn. When I start typing in my
search and get to leather this is what I see:
Notice what happens as soon as I put in a space after leather.
Instead of Leatherman's we have leather jackets. Now we type in dog and
immediately we see the collars. But, remember this is not what we are looking for.
So now I enter l and I see leash, leads, and leashes. Notice the page already changed to show me leashes.
So how does this new and improved search effects all store owners?
- You may begin to see an increase in impressions. This will be because your site is going to appear as user's type in their query.
In the example above, our site would come up for leather dog collars and
create an impression even though the customer was looking for a leather dog
lead.
Impressions are counted when your site is displayed after they have
completed a query, after a customer begins to type a term and clicks on a
link from that page, or the customer stops typing to look at the results for
3 seconds or more.
- Websites showing near the top of the results for short-term queries may
get more clicks as Google guesses what they need.
- Be careful if you are only relying on long-tail search
queries. Customers may find what they need faster.
Tips You Can Implement Today
- Take your top converting products and perform an instant search for
these products. What keyword phrases are coming up and are you showing up?
- Want to show up for broader search terms? Become an expert. Write books,
write articles, and others will begin to link to your website as the expert
in your field.
- Take a look at your PPC campaigns and adjust as necessary for broad
search terms that come up quickly for key products with high conversion
rates.
- Pay attention to what your analytics is telling you.
In the end it all comes down to giving Google what they need to rank
you #1.
What they need is to make the web search experience better.
According to
Matt Cutts, this is what Google wants to do well:
- Google wants the most comprehensive index of the web.
- Google wants to return relevant, USEFUL results.
- Google wants to return search results fast.
- Google wants to improve their user interface.
Now look at your website. Are you giving Google want they want? Are you
providing relevant useful content? Is your website downloading fast? Is your
current design using the latest techniques to be crawled faster? Is your store
improving the interface, increasing conversions, and thereby making it a better
shopping experience?
These are the questions that you have to ask yourself and be ready to
honestly answer right this minute because Christmas is right around the corner.
Make sure whatever you do, TEST TEST TEST.
Need someone to look over your website?
Give us a call right now for a free site review. Just a few minutes with us can
greatly increase your traffic and sales
1-888-312-7839.
Sincerely,
Shawna Seigel
(Formally Shawna Fennell but, I got married on the Fourth of
July!)
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| Featured Video Tutorial | Customer Registration makes registering a store account fast and simple for
your customers. By enabling customer registration, you will allow your customers
to be able to:
*Enjoy a faster, more efficient checkout experience, with
stored shipping and billing addresses pre-populated on checkout pages.
*Access their order information, order history, shipping status and tracking
number
*Easily re-order items with one click.
*Update their
shipping and billing address(es), and other profile information at any time.
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| Recently Interviewed | 1 Choice 4 Your Store is proud and honored to host Ecom Experts on
WebmasterRadio.fm
We have had the privilege of interviewing some of the most amazing guests
and hope you enjoy listening to the interviews as much as we enjoyed doing them!
If you have missed any of our shows, you can click on the links below.
Air Date: September 14, 2010
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Greg Jameson, President of WebStores Ltd. tells us why video such a hot topic for store owners.
We also learn what it take to create a YouTube Channel including formulating topics, length and adding videos to your website. We also go into the production process, from editing to lighting to even green screens.
Air Date: August 30, 2010
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Mike Ober from Yahoo Small Business stops by to discuss the new features released earlier this month from Yahoo, as well as, best practices for Customer Registration. He also participates on the monthly site reviews.
Air Date: August 23, 2010
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Studies show that its less expensive to bring existing customers back than to attract new ones. So how can you take your existing customers and bring them back into your store to purchase again? Shawna welcomes the always popular Kat from Kats Kloset! Kat was recently named one of the top 6 Social Media Sellers by eBays blogger, Richard Brewer Hayes and is keeping busy trying to live up to that image.
Air Date: August 9, 2010
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Mitchell Harper is the co-founder and product manager for BigCommerce.com, the fastest growing e-commerce platform in the world.
Residing in Sydney, Australia, he has built Interspire (the parent company of BigCommerce.com) along with co-founder Eddie Machaalani to over 50,000 clients and seven figures in yearly revenue with 40 employees in three countries. All of this growth was the result of listening to customers, hiring the right people and guerilla marketing.
Nobody understands more how to grow your business to a seven figure a year business on a shoestring business. Shawna asks Mitchell what it takes to get there…and stay there!
Air Date: August 2, 2010
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Every store owner starts out wondering the same thing, how should I be shipping my items? Should I use the Post Office, Fed Ex, or UPS? All things shipping are discussed with Eric Nash, Director of Online Marketing for Stamps.com. Shawna and Eric discuss online postage software, tracking, International Shipping and more.
Air Date: July 26, 2010
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Shawna and Rene do their end of the month site review session for the month of July. They look into a number of ecommerce sites selling adult novelites and products, and look into issues likes anchor links, product descriptions, patterned backgrounds, html elements and more.
Air Date: July 19, 2010
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Shawna welcomes Greg Jameson from WebStores Ltd to discuss online marketing for online store owners.
Air Date: July 12, 2010
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Shawna speaks with Don West and Kenny Barrickman of WildWestDeals about Using Video for Ecommerce.
Air Date: June 28, 2010
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Shawna and Rene look for specific problems in regard to SEO, Usability, Landing Page Optimization, and help you to increase conversions. In this session, they look at issues on a number of websites including shopping cart pages, rotating banners, product images, links, add to cart buttons, copyrights and more.
Air Date: June 21, 2010
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Maria Bailey, author of Mom 3.0, shares her knowledge of marketing to the every day Mom. Offering practical insight on closing the sale, and getting Moms attention with great marketing and top notch customer service.
Air Date: June 15, 2010
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Jennifer Whaley, Business Development Manager at Century Interactive, shares her useful insight to give us the seven ways that you can get the most out of website tracking.
Air Date: June 7, 2010
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Mike Ober from Yahoo! Small Business previews the upcoming Internet Retailer Conference, Yahoo Merchant Summit, plus offers some Ecommerce Best Practices.
Air Date: June 1, 2010
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Shawna and Rene do their end of the month Q and a, where they offer some site reviews for an online Latin store for Authentic Mexican Food and Latin Products, TheLatinProducts.com and ivyrosegifts.com, a site that offers a variety of personalized items including birth records, prints, step stools, and ID tags, including keepsake christening or baptism gifts.
Air Date: May 24, 2010
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How does Google TV effect online store owners? Shawna offers some direction on how merchants can utilize Google TV, a new experience made for television that combines the TV you know and love with the freedom and power of the Internet recently unveil at the Google I/O event last week.
Air Date: May 11, 2010
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Melinda Jackson is an eBay PowerSeller and Education Specialist. She also hosts her own online radio show and is an eCommerce Coach. She shares some of her ecommerce expertise.
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