The Online Publishers Association (OPA) announced toady that time spent with online content reached a 2008 high in October, according to its Internet Activity Index (IAI).While time spent with content jumped in October, share of time spent with ecommerce hit an all time low. The OPA launched the index over four years ago, it measures the amount of time consumers spend online each month with ecommerce, communication, community, content, and search.
New Top-Level Domain Introduced
People have long relied on phonebooks to find phone numbers and addresses, but the paper versions get put out just once per year. Sites’ "About Us" pages can be updated anytime, but require that users do some clicking around. So a new top-level domain extension spelled ".tel" is opening with an aim to solve all sorts of contact-related problems like these.
Google Docs Offers New Holiday Templates
Google Docs has received a lot of attention lately, most of which was focused on its miniscule market share. Google would like to address that issue, and as the holiday season approaches, it’s doing so by unveiling some new templates.
Bad Economy Correlates With Need For Good Deals
The rule of thumb is correlation does not equal causation. If ice cream sales increase simultaneously with the crime rate, obviously one is not causing the other. As the newly admitted recession continues, fingers are wagging toward one cause or another, democrats blaming republicans and vice versa.
Online Retailers Had Solid Cyber Monday
With the economy in an official recession and the continuing talk of doom and gloom, comScore has released some positive numbers about online holiday spending so far this year.
Donate For The Holiday Season By Using GoodShop.com
With the economy slipping, charities across the nation are bracing themselves for declining contributions this holiday season.
Pownce Founders Joining Six Apart Team
The first major micro-blogging casualty has emerged over the past week. Pownce, a Twitter-like lifestreaming service, announced it was closing its doors (figuratively speaking) mid-December.
Google Gives Details On Ads Quality Updates
Ads Quality concerns any and every marketer who’s the least bit interested in his ads’ positions and prices, and Google recently complicated things by making a few changes. Luckily, Google also documented the updates’ specifics, and advertisers should find two new videos on Ads Quality very useful.
Making Your Internet Business Eco-Friendly
The growth of the Internet world as a means for producing revenue and gainful employment has provided those in it a unique opportunity. Rare is it to find an industry where one can produce little in the way of non-recycleable garbage and can easily and painlessly offset the negative impact they have on the world. Can those involved with the oil industry claim to be eco-friendly?
Differences Between the Most Commonly Used Keyword Suggestion Tools
Rigid, unchanging procedures threaten any business activity. With Internet-enabled and -related enterprises, keeping up with technological progress is absolutely essential to survival. As opposed to static (unchanging) websites that are not looking to strengthen or increase their industry share, any dynamic (changing) website will have new copy, even new strategies, on an ongoing basis. Regular, extensive, ongoing keyword research is not a luxury, but a basic survival tactic.