For employees who typically spend 40 hours a week in an office, working from home has escalated anxiety and confusion. Due to the self-quarantine mandates during this global crisis, this anxiety and confusion intensify day-by-day. But many have been at the working-from-home game for a long time, including me. Besides a small stretch with a [...]
In 2018, Google started showing this to Chrome users if they clicked on a non-HTTPS website. I’m just going to put that down right here. Quietly. In case there’s an unfriendly snare drum beating in your brain. In 2018, Google told webmasters that if you have a non-HTTPS website, you risk losing traffic and this horrible [...]
IKEA is now letting customers pay for goods with their time. Yes, that’s right: the more time customers spend travelling to IKEA, the more they can buy. Because beginning from this month, IKEA Dubai is running a campaign that will allow customers to spend their time as a currency, simply by showing IKEA checkout staff [...]
Facebook is providing a set of templates to help businesses communicate need-to-know changes brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. The templates are designed for messaging such as: Informing customers they can still place orders while the business is temporarily closed. Encouraging customers to shop online. Reaching out to the community for support. Sharing links to [...]
Google has published data on recent search trends, revealing the top 5 ways search behavior is changing during the pandemic. This data has been compiled in an effort to assist marketers with being more helpful to customers during this time. No organization is exempt from the shift in search behavior caused by the pandemic, and [...]
COVID-19 has certainly made an impact on ecommerce over the past couple of weeks now that isolation and social distancing measures have been put in place. Workers in many infected countries have been asked to work from home, countries including the UK, Italy, and France have been placed under lockdown and schools have been shut [...]
Marketers are scrambling to adjust their SEO strategies to account for the COVID-19 pandemic. That’s why it’s important to explore its impact on search interest trends and organic performance in retail. As more users stay home and avoid public places, we understand that there is a shift in online behavior. We have examined these initial [...]
As social distancing is becoming the norm across society as a result of COVID-19, people are now spending more time on their phones than ever before. This has led to increases in time spent across social media channels as users turn to these platforms as one of their main sources of entertainment. While some brands are pausing [...]
As an agency owner or manager, these are extraordinary times. We are all desperately trying to figure things out in this era of COVID-19, just like you. What follows are four tips on managing a digital agency in the current crisis I hope these thoughts prove helpful to you. I will also share some resources [...]
Google has now shared examples of what COVID-19 special announcement structured data will look like when used in search results. A brand new set of structured data markup for special announcements related to COVID-19 was introduced last month. Google officially stated last week it will support the new structured data, but didn’t say when it [...]
