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Search Intent: How to Analyze and Optimize Your Site

ConversionXL

For sustainable, valuable search traffic, you’d better provide it. Satisfying search intent is Google’s fundamental goal. A page that’s well-matched for user intent can outperform those that optimize primarily for search engines—in search and after the click. How Google (and others) define search intent.

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Search: Not Provided: What Remains, Keyword Data Options, the Future

Occam's Razor

In late 2011, Google announced an effort to make search behavior more secure. This encrypted their search queries from any prying eyes, and kept from being passed on to websites the users visits after seeing search results. In this post I want to share four angles on secure search: 1. want to protect user privacy.

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The unimportance of product names

37signals.com

Follow us on Twitter for more information on our products. The unimportance of product names. Don’t waste too much time on picking a perfect name for your product. One thing we learned early on talking to Basecamp customers: Many of them didn’t even know that the app was called Basecamp.

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6 Essential Principles Of Designing a High Converting Site Search Experience

ConversionXL

A couple weeks ago, we dug into internal site search & found that in some cases , searches performed by only 10% of the site’s total traffic made up nearly 40% of the companies overall revenue. Then we went into my 3 favorite methods for increasing conversions by improving the search experience.

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How to Make Product Pages That Sell

Up and Running

Product descriptions are meant to convince customers to buy things, right? But if a shopper can’t find your product description, it will never work its magic. That’s why you need to make sure that your product descriptions pop up higher in the search rankings. Also, don’t make your product names super-generic.

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Optimize for Branded Search to Create a More Effective Sales Funnel

ConversionXL

One of the most powerful ways to create a more effective sales funnel is to analyze and optimize your branded search. In this article, I’ll share why branded search is so important and how it can help you improve your rankings and sales. What is branded search? When someone searches for your brand, what do they find?

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Amazon SEO Isn’t Google SEO: 6 Differences That Matter

ConversionXL

Did you know that Amazon has surpassed Google as the go-to search platform for shoppers looking for products? When customers have a specific product in mind, more turn to Amazon search than Google. If you’re porting over your SEO “best practices” from on-site product pages to Amazon product pages, you’ll struggle.

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