links for 2008-11-30
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Online Job Ads Up In December
In December there were 3,541,200 online advertised job vacancies, an increase of 6 percent from last December, according to The Conference Board Help-Wanted Online Data Series. While this number is up from last year, it was down by 13 percent from the November level, partly because of a seasonal pattern, which began with the Thanksgiving [...]
Green Monday Dreamed Up By eBay
Now that we are stuck with Cyber Monday as a designation for the first Monday after Thanksgiving, eBay has promoted the second Monday of December as Green Monday.It’s not another Yahoo story about the environment or Google putting up solar panels. The ‘Green Monday’ name dreamed up by eBay, PayPal, and Shopping.com reflects economic thoughts, [...]
Shoppers Spending More Time Researching Online
Online shoppers researched product information 11 percent and 27 percent more on Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday respectively than they did on Cyber Monday, according to research from WebCollage. The average amount of time shoppers spent researching specific products online increased 16 percent when compared to the time they spent researching specific products in 2006. [...]
Natural Search Traffic To Retailers Rises
Retailers have had higher growth rates for natural or unpaid search traffic, according to Netconcepts. The company looked at programs of retailers using GravityStream, its natural search-advertising platform, and found an average of 14 percent week-to-week growth, compared to nine percent at this time in 2006. "This faster rate of growth likely stems from several [...]
Facebook To Cry Uncle Over Beacon
Sources say Facebook is near to announcing changes to its Beacon marketing platform after pressure from privacy advocates over the last week. MoveOn launched its campaign the Monday before Thanksgiving and has since signed up 50,000 Facebook members incensed about having their online purchases and activities outside the social network published via News Feeds. Initially, [...]
A Fun Day for Retail Research
Today’s a fun one for retail research. First, I received an update from Compete’s blog deconstructing the myth of Cyber Monday: There is a significant ramp up in both Attention and Reach from the period of November 15th through the 23rd, before both begin to trail off. On Thanksgiving, nearly 30% of every U.S internet [...]
Twitter Updates for 2007-11-29
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SEOlogs Holiday Gift Guide
Thanksgiving, “Black Friday”, and “Cyber Monday” have all come and gone, and you know what that means…The Holiday season is officially upon us.I felt inspired to make this SEO holiday wish list. It’s pretty much a hint for my wife, but you can feel free to pass it on to your significant other as well [...]
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