Google Readies for Action

| Brian Quinton

(Searchline) In the beginning, there was cost per impression: You, the online marketer, paid for the audience of a Web page. And it was good for the publishers, but only okay for the advertisers,

Search Gets Social

| Brian Quinton

(Searchline) Nothing in the online advertising space has attracted more attention recently than the phenomenon of social networking.

In Testing, Keep the Baby, Change the Bathwater

| Brian Quinton

(SearchLine) Prospective parents are accustomed to lots of tests: for the health of the baby, for its gender, and for the mother’s wellness. When BabyCenter.com, a content site aimed at parents-to-be, wanted to optimize its site to drive search traffic,

A Dearth of Search Among Big-Box Retailers

| Brian Quinton

(Searchline) If you’re a small or midsize e-commerce site trying to compete with large retailers, take heart: As long as you manage an active search marketing campaign that takes in both pay-per-click ads and organic optimization,

Putting Jegs.com in drive

| MCM staff

This month Multichannel Merchant introduces Website Critique. Just as our Catalog Critique section evaluates the finer points of print catalog creative,

Beneath the surface of search

| Brian Klais

If you are like most merchants, you’ve followed the advice of your natural-search optimization (NSO) firm and completed some basic site optimization projects.