SEO Industry Quick Hits (Nov. 30, 2009)

by Kerry Dean on 11/30/2009 at 4:05 pm in Industry News, Observations, SEO

You may call them quick hits. You may call it scatter shooting. You may just refer to it as news. Regardless, here are some recent developments in our world of search marketing and SEO:

• DMOZ 2.0 is on the way in 2010. I don’t know who this blog belongs to, but it seems to have a lot of inside information about the forthcoming, upgraded version DMOZ (aka DMOZ 2.0).
• Malcolm Coles has a great write-up on the new Google layout. From the look of things, Local SEO will be crucial for all websites when this layout rolls out to all Google data centers.
• Black Friday boasts $595M in U.S. online holiday spending; Up 11% versus a year ago (via comScore)
• Some 19% of Americans will use their mobile devices for shopping this holiday season, according to a Deloitte survey.
• Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday showed a strong surge in online shopping searches, with searches for “Black Friday” up by more than 20%, year over year.

Enjoy!