Metrics Roundup

Posted by Rowland on October 28 at 7:54 PM Technorati has brought charts back for searching, which is great for seeing activity over time. For instance, here is how blog traffic went after Ellen's plea to return her adopted dog.

Also noted on the Data Mining Blog, is a fascinating new way to determine which blogs to read: sorting by which blogs will keep you most up-to-date. Its not really a perfect list, but it's an interesting method to look at blogs: by influence, by ones that will keep you must up-to-date, or just simply most read.

Digital signage catches attention more than regular out-of-home.

Click-fraud on paid search continues to rise, now hitting 16.3%. Meanwhile, publishing sites and indexing companies such as ComScore, fight it out on there numbers with rather startling discrepancies. According to Forrester, 6% of adults online use Twitter (that seems rather high to me...but I have nothing but gut there to tell you.)

Ask.com is making some gains against Google. Good reason to suspect that the TV push for them is driving those gains.

From the "no, really?" file comes a study proving that smiling does increase sales. Topics: advertising, grassroots, interactive, public relations        SHARE: