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Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday showed a strong surge in online shopping searches, with searches for "Black Friday" up by more than 20%, year over year. Searches for "black friday sales" and "black friday ads" were both up by more than 50%, year over year.
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Black Friday Verdict: As Expected, Number of Shoppers Up, Average Spending Down
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Washington, November 29, 2009 –As the closely-watched Black Friday weekend winds down, a National Retail Federation survey conducted over the weekend confirms the expected: more people spent less. According to NRF’s Black Friday shopping survey, conducted by BIGresearch, 195 million shoppers visited stores and websites over Black ...
Search Engine Watch Blog
Signs of Recovery? Online Shopping Up 11% on Black Friday
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comScore is releasing its first round of data for the 2009 Christmas shopping season, and the news is much better than last year. Last year , online shopping on Black Friday was up only 1% from the year previous, coming in at $534 million. Well, this year online shopping on Black Friday came in at $595 million, up 11% over 2008. Spending in ...
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Amazon is the Most Visited Website on Black Friday
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Now that Black Friday is over and everyone is in the U.S. are probably busy finding the best Cyber Monday deals online, it’s interesting to note which online retailers made it to the top of the charts during Black Friday’s shopping craze. And according to Experian Hitwise data it was none other than Amazon – their second in a row.
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Quick Hits for Black Friday Marketing Pushes
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It's a short holiday week for most, but if you're a retail business owner or an SEO of a small retail business, this week holds little rest for you. Days away is Black Friday, the mega shopping day that falls the day after Thanksgiving and ushers in the winter holiday ...
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Black Friday 2009 Recap via Hitwise
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Below is data from Hitwise which shows the performance of the top online retailers this past black Friday: Among the top 500 Retail Web sites, the percentage of U.S. visits were up 4% on Black Friday 2009 versus Thanksgiving Day 2009. Year-over-year the visits were down 9% compared to Black Friday 2008. The U.S. traffic to Black Friday sites on ...
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Since the early days of the Internet, searching for music has been one of the most popular online activities. With the arrival of Napster in 1999, music file sharing reached an all time high as Internet users could find any song they wanted for free. Even though Napster was shut down in July of 2001, music file sharing continued to progress with ...
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Public Transit Google Search Leads Teacher to Porn in Class
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I might be exaggerating just a bit in the title of this post, but it appears that a teacher was searching for public transit information in class and was shown pornographic web sites instead. A Google Web Search Help thread says he/she searched for [ is the tube free ] in Google, while in class, and was shown a listing of pornographic sites. The ...
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Evolution Of Image Search Continues With Google Swirl
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Google are currently previewing "Swirl" in Google Labs. Jennifer takes a look at how Swirl aims to simplify image search. Related posts: 5 Slick Alternatives To Google Image Search Google Launches Search Engine Suggestions Google Launches Forum Search
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Iso 9001 Quality Control Experts – Easy To Rank For Niche Searches
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If you type into Google search “ISO 9001 Quality Control Experts” or anything else to do with Guaranteed Certification in this niche market, you will find our client: Qualaco, Inc. Even though this is a brand new domain we reserved for them, they already have organic Google rankings targeting their niche market exactly. They not ...
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Affiliate Cyber Monday Song PLUS Watch Shawns Music Video
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Sing it with me now, then spin around 3 times and pull on your right ear. I absolutely guarantee that if you do this little ritual, your Monday Holiday sales will increase! (If funky eBooks promise you can make a billion $$ in your underwear, then I can make a crazy claim too!)
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Google Translation Bar
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One of my favorite bookmarklets translates the current web page into English using Google Translate: you can find it here. Unfortunately, Google Translate doesn't handle properly web pages dynamically generated using JavaScript. For example, if you try to translate Google Pack's Chinese homepage, you'll notice that most of the text can't be ...
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Adult Escort Business Owner Looking for Fair Shot in Google?
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We have reported a few times how Google Maps is being abused by seductive images and local results. What I found incredibly interesting was a thread at Google Maps Help where a Googler called out one person for spamming Google Maps and then reporting it. Joel from Google asked: V London & Jack London - you are both with the same domain: ...
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Web Search
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Offensive search results are by no means anything new; we've probably all come across some pretty awful stuff in our searches, right? This week a particularly odious offensive search result, that of First Lady Michelle Obama characterized as an ...
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Google Ads
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How Google's New Ad Formats Depart from Google's Old Philosophy , Traffick.com (Nov 24) The worm turns: Google does what it used to criticize others for. It seems "Google is doing paid inclusion! In several ways. " and "Google is...
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I’m at the Influencer Scorecard Summit today and some of Tuesday, more to come, shortly.
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A few London Sketches and one from NYC
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A lot of activity with the Influencer Scorecard Summit about to begin Monday morning and our DataStories Meetup happening tomorrow night, a few articles appearing immanently in VentureBeat, one on BrightRoll and another on Chrome OS, a trip to Montreal next month to help with KeenKong, and life, are all on my mind right now. I’m ...
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One of the primary components of a keyword’s quality score is its landing page. Second only to clickthrough rate, the landing page is an important factor in determining the quality score. However, landing pages are often overlooked by pay-per-click (PPC) advertisers. Advertisers tend to build their sites with several goals in mind, some of ...
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The video-game industry is ramping up its holiday-season promotional activity and ad spending for popular game titles in hopes that a Q409 consumer spending spree will help defray a year-long sales...
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BrightRoll says video ad profits are soaring
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Video ad network BrightRoll is seeing rapid revenue growth, according to third quarter financial numbers it just released. “Online video advertising is growing fast enough to make up for most of the fallout in display, email and other online businesses,” said chief executive Tod Sacerdoti. Additionally, campaign momentum is accelerating ...
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I know that it's hard to be creative. I know that it's hard to be unique. Get over it. On the Internet, merely copying your competitors works far less well than it does in offline marketing. Unfortunately, Google bares all. If you do the same stuff as everyone else, count on the ones who did it before you to reap the benefits, with your results ...
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It’s about that time. Year-end lists should be coming fast and furious during the next few weeks. First up, from the major search engines, is Bing. Their year-end list of “top trending topics” can be accessed here. Ten “trending topics” are listed. Here are the Top Five: 1) Michael Jackson 2) Twitter 3) Swine Flu 4) ...
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Michael Jackson #1 Bing Query of 2009
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Bing has released its top queries for 2009 . The late King of Pop tops the list, followed by a popular social network and a pandemic disease. Michael Jackson Twitter Swine Flu Stock Market Farrah Fawcett Patrick Swayze Cash for Clunkers Jon and Kate Gosselin Billy Mays Jaycee Dugard
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After finishing the turkey and doing the dishes, many more people than last year turned on their computers and went shopping. But will Thanksgiving weekend spending continue through the holiday season?
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TweetDeck , the most popular third-party Twitter client on the market today, just got a major update . TweetDeck now features support for Twitter lists and Twitter's new geolocation feature, as well as a LinkedIn column and optional support for Twitter's new retweet function. Users who prefer to use old-style retweets can still use these as well.
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Calling Twitter’s bluff
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Ever since FriendFeed was sold to Facebook, we’ve been told over and over again that the company and its community were toast. And as if to underline the fact, FriendFeed’s access to the Twitter firehose was terminated and vaguely replaced with a slow version that is currently delivering Twitter posts between 20 minutes and two hours ...
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Here’s Hard Data for Headlines that Spread on Twitter
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Many bloggers already know that Twitter is one of the best ways to drive traffic to your blog. When I talked to Guy Kawasaki about my book, he called the Tweetmeme Retweet button “the most important button on the web,” because of the enormous traffic-driving power it possesses. With one click, any of your readers can [...]
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Police are looking for the wife of suspected cop killer Maurice Clemmons, and have told officers to be on the lookout for her car, possibly headed to Arkansas.
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From the Announcement Elsevier today announced a major re-launch of Embase, its comprehensive biomedical database which holds over 20 million indexed records from more than 7,000 active, peer reviewed journals. …new developments and updates include: • Enabling all biomedical researchers to use Embase — extending its “usability” ...
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Elsevier
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Elsevier Is Re-Launching "Embase" To Be A Powerful Resource Providing Deep Insights And Answers To Biomedical Researchers Amsterdam, 30 November 2009 - Elsevier, the world’s leading publisher of scientific, medical and technical products and services, today announced a major re-launch of Embase, its comprehensive biomedical database which ...
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You might find this suprising, but the top social gaming companies on the iPhone are not the same ones you know of from Facebook and MySpace. Zynga, despite $54.2M in funding, has hardly made a dent on the iPhone. Neither has Playfish, which was recently bought for $300M. Playdom hasn’t done squat, either. Although “the big three”
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Editor’s note: This guest post was originally scheduled to be posted yesterday—we are thankful for Frank’s post below, and hope everyone celebrating Thanksgiving had a lovely holiday. Read more below about ways we, as a community, can create ripples of thanks.
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I recently made a dSLR camera purchase. I put a lot of research into it, and even though Amazon.com won out (they had this amazing rebate), I checked out some of the area camera stores online to whet my spending appetite. Someone had recommended a store, so I started at that ...
Recently, larger-than-life magazine house Condé Nast has nixed several publications and laid off staffers. Their Vogue September 2009 issue’s ad content was down 50% from last year. That equates to a lot of money lost. It’s a continual trend that print publications ad pages and subscriptions are tanking. And now ...
The initial numbers for Black Friday are giving retailers hope that the holiday season will be better than expected. According to comScore, consumers spent $913 million online on Thanksgiving and...
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