More is afoot in Google’s recent increase in editorial checks and quality controls in their Merchant Centre…….
Merchant Centre Changes
Xbox Slim On Sale
This week marks the release of the Xbox Slim and no doubt demand will be high and many stores will run out of stock very quickly. As we’ve seen in recent months with the new iPhone and iPad, huge surges in demand can play havoc with many retailers stock levels and can leave many shoppers [...]
Yahoo Search Marketing And Microsoft Ad Centre Transition
Recently, Microsoft and Yahoo announced their intention to create an ad/sales partnership, involving the transition of advertising customers from Yahoo’s search marketing desktop to Microsoft’s ad centre.
As regular users of both search marketing tools, the team at Gillissa believe this will be effective, fundamentally because it will be easier to manage two desktop tools [...]
New Reviews Available From Nextag
Extra oomph given to Nextag product listings…
Tips On Account Security
Creating and setting up a meticulously structured Google Adwords account can be a very long process. Ensuring that your keywords, ad groups and campaigns are accurate and relevant to what you want to sell is critical and therefore needs thorough assessment.
So, with all this in mind, the prospect of unauthorised personnel obtaining access to [...]
Change to Feeds To Shopping.com
We’ve been advised by Shopping.com that they are changing the number of mandatory fields for products from 3 to 9 with effect from 1st July 2010. These are now all required for a feed:
Image (Minimum size 150 x150 pixel)
MPN or UPC (certain products only)
Brand
Merchant SKU
Description
Product Name
Product URL
Product Price
Shipping
No massive showstoppers for most e-store owners [...]
What Changes From CPA to CPC?
As is always the case at Gillissa, we have been working on making improvements to all the accounts that we manage, based fundamentally on the needs of the client.
Recently, one client altered their needs, so that clicks were of paramount importance, replacing the previous necessity of a set cost per acquisition (CPA).
In accordance with this, [...]
Global Search Continues To Prosper
A recent report by comScore has indicated a tremendous growth for search marketing, perhaps correlating in a significant boost to search engine marketing.
Between the twelve month period of December 2008 and December 2009, the global search market grew by 46%.
In fact, an estimated 131 billion search queries were carried out from the home and at [...]
Google Wary Of Rogue Advertisers
As discussed within the previous blog post ‘Shop Safely This Christmas!’ the team at Gillissa outlined our discovery of an illegitimate advertiser using Google Adwords to advertise within the sponsored links section of Google’s webpage.
As a result, we notified Google of our findings and they dealt with the matter accordingly.
However, there are numerous rogue advertisers [...]
Search Marketing: An Increasingly Popular Method Of Marketing
There was encouraging news for search marketing as a whole, based on a recent report devised by search marketing firm Efficient Frontier.
The statistical data provided claimed that retail clients spent 17% more on search engine markets in the fourth quarter than in the same period for 2008.
This is probably relative to the fact that Efficient [...]