CORRECTED: Web traffic growth slows on Black Friday
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(Corrects headline to show Web traffic growth, not Web  sales, fell on Black Friday
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Plus: TiVo posts small profit...Novell reverses year-earlier profit...Lenovo posts 2006-07 net surge.
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Is Microsoft-served ads slowing down Web sites? Plus, what is Ask erasing, and what are the others keeping? And a 'Knight Rider' comeback and more.
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Found in the search marketing forums: What Does it Take to Get to the Top?; How Does Punctuation Effect SEO?; PPC Issue with Google Analytics; and more.
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Many online merchants this year will still sell goods with standard shipping terms through Monday, Dec. 18, or Tuesday, Dec. 19, a boon for late holiday shoppers.
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E-tailers have laggards and penny-pinchers to thank for last week&#39;s brisk sales, which grew 25 percent over the comparable period last year, according to comScore.Procrastinators and deal-seekers helped create a &quot;flurry&quot; of online spending last week in the U.S., keeping retail e-sales strong, comScore said Sunday.Between Nov. 1 and Dec. 21 -- the first 51 days of the holiday season -- U.S. shoppers have spent $26.3 billion online, up 19 percent compared with the corresponding period last year.So far, the heaviest online shopping day this season was Dec. 10, the so-called &quot;Green Monday,&quot; a term coined by eBay for the second Monday in December, which the vendor has identified as particularly heavy e-sales day. U.S. shoppers spent $881 million that day, up 33 percent from the corresponding day in 2006.By contrast, Cyber Monday, the first workday after the Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S., ranks as this holiday season&#39;s ninth heaviest online shopping day, with $733 million in sales. Cyber Monday is considered the day when holiday online shopping kicks into high gear.Overall, comScore expects this year&#39;s holiday season to generate about $29.5 billion in online spending, which would represent a 20 percent increase from the same period in 2006.
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CHICAGO _ You better watch out/ you better not cry/ you better order now/ I'm telling you why ...  Shipping costs are going to rise.  That could become a familiar verse this week if you haven't yet finished your online holiday shopping.
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Mikhail Tuknov, founder of Infatex.com,  sent in this article on CSS and its importance in search engine optimization. I found it to be a basic and &#8216;to the point&#8217; read on how CSS can cut down on load time, cross browser compatibility and code cleanliness. As the holiday season approaches, Search Engine Journal will be [...]
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Blog: The site's downage was not actually downage, representatives say, but rather a network carrier issue that slowed it down.
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Walmart.com, Amazon.com suffer site performance problems during holiday shopping.
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By Lisa Baertlein and Emily Chasan SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK  - U.S. online shoppers, who set spending and traffic records on Thanksgiving Day and the "Black Friday" that followed, were expected to break new ground again as they returned to work on what some are calling "Blue Monday."
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Found in the search marketing forums: Major Site Exclusion Failure; Reciprocal Links Are (Still) Not Dead; Tips or Tools for Viewing Location-Specific Ads; and more.
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It seems like you are using an outdated browser. The online version of the daily uses standards-compliant code which might not be supported by your urrent browser.
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(InfoWorld) - The 2006 holiday shopping period got off to a strong start over the weekend, according to several e-commerce operators. The Friday after the Thanksgiving holiday is typically seen as the start of the holiday sales season in the U.S. and retail outlets across the nation see some of the largest crowds of the year on that day. In recent years, online retailers also report strong traffic on the day. While consumers may be opening their wallets to online retailers like never before, there's also evidence they are after bargains like never before. Two online price comparison sites, which point consumers to the lowest prices for various items, reported surging traffic. Pricegrabber.com said it's seen a 45 percent increase year-over-year in referrals to merchants for November to date. In some categories, including toys, sporting goods and apparel, the amount of traffic sent to retailers by Pricegrabber has more than doubled, it said. Rival site Shopping.com reported a 40 percent jump in November-to-date referrals to online retailers and said hot categories include kids and family, home and garden, and clothing and accessories. Despite the strong traffic, Monday is likely to be busier, said Shopping.com. Last year visitors to the site peaked between noon and 2 p.m. on Monday. Two of the season's hottest holiday gift items, the recently-launched PlayStation 3 and Wii games consoles, have been selling fast on Ebay. In the week to Nov. 24, 14,675 PlayStation 3 and 26,708 Wii consoles were sold through the site. The average price of the PS3 was US$1,186.39 while the Wii fetched an average $412.53, according to eBay Marketplace Research. Both prices are well above their suggested retail prices. Other hot electronics items include the Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. BDP-1000 Blu-ray Disc player and Apple Computer Inc.'s iPod nano and iPod Shuffle, the company said.
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Plus: Matsushita profit up 22 percent...Amazon's profit up, margins squeezed...SAP cautious on 2008...Yahoo profit falls.
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Investor's Business Daily - Market News' retail trade index bounced 3.7 points to a still-weak 41.5 in the Oct. 27 week. Readings below 50 signal more chains are reporting slowing conditions. Same-store year-on-year sales growth is very weak at 0.7%, with total sales growth at 4.1%. Income is also weak, with 43% of the sample reporting declines vs. 40% reporting gains. Retailers blamed housing woes.
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Blog: Here's a follow up to a blog of a few days ago outlining workaround until Google issues a patch.