What I love about being an Advanced Experienced AdWords Expert as I have been for years now (and I am using the word LOVE sarcastically here) is that I keep finding out things that I have assumed for years are wrong.  And that if I read Dave Barry too much- and I am not making this up- I start to write like him. It is only because I have teachers in the form of AdWords Dedicated Account Representatives that I have these frequent stunning realizations.

My friend Rob, just luanched the The Micropreneur Academy . Here is a bit more information on it. The Micropreneur Academy, an online learning environment for solo software entrepreneurs, is opening its doors to new enrollments soon. Launched in April by noted software blogger and entrepreneur Rob Walling of Software by Rob ,

As you have probably noticed, a few days ago we started highlighting not just your friends, but also the submitter of a link and the moderators of the reddit you're reading. We had been getting numerous requests for submitter highlighting due to the recent popularity of reddits like AskReddit and IAmA , and we had also gotten occasional requests for moderator highlighting, so we pushed out what we thought was an innocent change: friends get an [ F ] next to their name,

As it fits a good conspiracy, Google now removed the triforce from the logo doodles (I did not check for every logo, but it's gone for at least the two which I did check). I wonder why? For instance, here's the old Tesla logo, and the new one: The triforce can be seen to the right of the "l", near the bottom. (See Search Engine Roundtable's July 10 post , they made a copy of the logo.) And now it's gone. (See Google's live version of the logo ,

Posted by randfish Some keyword research is surface-level, fire and forget type stuff. If you just need to see relative volume levels, then a basic keyword research tool is all you need. If, however, you want to really dive deep and get the full skinny on your keywords, I'd recommend having each of these data points. #1 - Relative Search Volume from 3 Sources There are three sources on the web that I've found to work best for comparative numbers research.

Is Google preparing to mount a defense against federal antitrust regulators? The search engine giant, the frequent target of privacy advocates concerned that it collects too much data on consumers with its ad and Web services, is looking to hire a privacy policy counsel for its Washington, D.C. office. Presumably, this legal eagle would report to, or at least work closely with Google Senior Competition Counsel Dana Wagner, he of Google's new " Competition is a click away ,

Twitter is becoming a popular social & viral marketing tool because of its ability to send short but effective messages to thousands of readers. Having your 'tweet' re-tweeted is even more important. Some of the most popular people in the world 'tweet' and have not thousands, but millions of followers. However, with fame comes misfortune. Twitter accounts have been, and will continue to be, hacked. Barack Obama with over  1.

Undertaking a long term search engine optimization program can be an expensive process depending on the size of your website and what you are trying to achieve. For smaller businesses that have trouble justifying the costs, there are strategies that can be put in place that are effective and low cost. The basics are covered in depth in a lot of our previous posts. Having a website that is well structured is the first step in the right direction.

What the heck is a Poken ? I learned about Poken during my tweetup with the local Web 2.0 types in Milan. Many were wearing little pendants called Pokens, which they explained allowed them to make social network connections. So I called the Poken company and got a few for myself and my friends. Below you see my Poken, along with my business card which it is trying to replace. The Poken has two parts.

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