Ad:tech San Francisco 2009 was off the hook! With over 12,000 attendees, 300 exhibitors, 250 speakers, 63 sessions, ad:tech San Francisco was the place to be for online Marketing professionals of all levels. If you missed the conference, and want to get an idea of what it was like to be there check  ad:tech’s YOUTUBE PAGE the have a bunch ...

The number of words in the average US search query is on the rise, with longer search queries - averaging five or more words in length - increasing 10% overall in January 2009 vs. January 2008, according to data from Hitwise (via MarketingCharts). The most notable change was in search queries that were eight or more words. These were up 22%. Over the same time period, shorter search queries, averaging ...

I noticed Ryan Spoon's blog post (via Techmeme) on PerezHilton.com's growth this morning. I have followed the Perez Hilton site (for purely professional reasons) for some time. The website ranked #398 among All Categories of websites last week and #5 among Entertainment - Personalities websites (based on share of US Internet visits). Searches for "perez hilton" were more than 300 times higher than for the celebrity "paris ...

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- There are two places most of today's laid-off executives are heading: to job-search sites to see what other opportunities are out there and to networking sites in hopes they can reconnect with -- and milk leads from -- former colleagues and business contacts. One site, LinkedIn, offers both of those things in one place. So it should come as no surprise that the site's traffic is ...

The idea is to reduce the number of ads, especially the low-performing ones, which should lift a site's aggregate click-through rates and eliminate some of the excess inventory that wasn't sold, anyway. In October, the online arm of personal-finance magazine SmartMoney got rid of display advertising "below the fold" -- ads in places farther down a web page. The site noticed that click-through rates had ...