John Deming

The search environment is every changing, as your budgets. How is your paid budget changing? Your SEO? Your PLA budget? How are search results pages changing? This panel tackles everything from paid efforts to PLAs. Understand how to navigate this crazy landscape, and leave with your all of your search questions answered.

• What is your paid search budget? What is your SEO budget? What is your PLA budget? And how has that changed over time?

• Are you seeing the benefits of PLAs in the same way that you see the benefits from branded and non-branded search?

• How do you think about PLAs and search retargeting and other ways of using search in display?

• What do you think will happen overall in terms of the search results page in the future?

• What about changes in the landscape (Yahoo taking their search back in-house, etc.) and what that means for your search program?

• Google’s efforts to anonymize search through HTTPS; what are you doing to get the data you need to continue to optimize pages when they are not getting those search queries?

• How are you thinking about the shift to mobile and change in user behavior in the context of search?

• How can you be strategic about this channel when consumers spend more than half of their time on their mobile phones?

With more retailers than ever changing their content management programs, looking to generate more and more content that will resonate with consumers, there has to be a careful balancing act between driving engagement and driving conversions. This panel talks about that balance – how to ensure you are ultimately getting sales.

• Are you focusing more on “striped back eComm” or on content?

• How can content and commerce work together?

• Where should content be placed vs. providing an ecomm experience?

• What is your approach for mobile v. non mobile?

• How are you balancing content creation with driving purchases?