Tag Archives: natural search

Conductor is thrilled that its CEO, Seth Besmertnik, will be speaking at two sessions at the SES Conference in San Francisco this week.  Seth will discuss enterprise-level SEO challenges and provide practical solutions for them. Seth’s first session, Scaling Up Your SEO Campaigns, will be on August 18th. This session will cover how large organizations can successfully manage their SEO efforts. Large organizations have numerous systems in place to manage their marketing programs, so why shouldn’t the same apply to natural search? Seth will participate in a panel that will share the importance of enterprise wide planning, implementation and control of SEO campaigns for improved ROI. Seth will then moderate another session, Enterprise Level SEO,on August 19th. The session will … Continue reading

iProspect, Searchandise Commerce and Comscore recently published an eye-opening study titled The Value of Retail Search and Position.   A combination of survey based analysis and dynamic focus groups were used to track the purchase path shoppers take to research and buy electronics and computer products. From the study: “…Searchandise Commerce and iProspect wanted to more closely analyze the role of various search influences, and better understand if the basic tenets of search engine marketing – the value of premium positions within search results – held true for retail site search as well”. Although primarily concerned with understanding the impact on purchaser behavior of a product’s search position on a retail sites search results, the study is fairly comprehensive in analyzing … Continue reading

Flags on the Search Field

Planning a ‘super’ advertising campaign? The cost of a Super Bowl commercial has once again broken last year’s record. For 2008, the average cost of a 30 second spot during the big game will run a whopping $2.7mm. While the benefit of reaching such a broad audience of potential new customers can not be disputed, the prohibitive cost of the commercial makes it imperative that this investment is supported by your company’s presence/ visibility on the Internet.