According to a new report from Econsultancy, the pay-per-click bid management technology market will grow by 14% in 2010 as search marketing continues to become more competitive and more complex.Click to read the rest of this post…

According to new research from Econsultancy, companies worldwide are increasing their investment in site search because they want to improve the experience for website users and increase site usage and sales.
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According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project, 69 percent of adult Internet users have watched or downloaded video online. That represents 52 percent of all adults in the United States.Click to read the rest of this post…

When it comes to predicting the outcome of the UK Election 2010, I want to know what Dan Berman thinks. Who is he?

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Do you know the biggest search marketing challenge facing the search industry? Forrester Research thinks it does.

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Conductor released a research report today on the search visibility and optimization effectiveness of the Internet Retailer 500 (IR 500). The report, entitled “Natural Search Trends of the Internet Retailer 500, evaluates the natural search visibility of the IR 500′s more than 88,000 most expensive paid keywords, on which they spend $1.2 million per day. The study reveals the IR 500 companies average a ‘D’ visibility score, appearing on page 6 in natural search results.

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According to new research from GigaOM Pro, online video viewers tend to be young, rich early adopters. Written by TDG analyst Michael Greeson, the report surveyed a cross-section of 2,000 consumers to determine who’s watching online video and how.

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comScore has released updated data for the 2009 online holiday shopping season. The trending increase in spending has continued, largely along the same numbers we saw last week:

Analysts expect “Green Monday,” the biggest online shopping day of the year, to occur today, December 14. It’s possible that the one day total could surpass $900 million. If that happens, it will be the first time in history.

Keeping our fingers crossed….

Seniors have been one of the fastest growing demographics on the Internet for awhile. New data from Nielsen Online shows that 6 million more seniors are surfing the web than there were five years ago.

So, what are they doing while hitting the interpipes? Let’s just say email is not dead. Oh, and grandma likes to keep track of what you’re doing on Facebook. Especially since you lost your phone manners to texting a long time ago.

There are two weeks left until Christmas and consumers still have a lot of shopping to do. That’s according to data released by the Google Retail blog.

The week before Thanksgiving, shoppers had still had 83% of their shopping to go. As of last Sunday, they still had 64% left.

Of course, that’s only for the shoppers that have begun their shopping. A whopping 29% haven’t even started. 19% haven’t started researching gifts.

Tis the weekend to get some sales!