On the 24th of March I was in Vancouver doing some pro-bono work teaching a group of charities and non-profit organizations some of the ins-and-outs of effective web site marketing. Well, a little ways into discussing how to boost Google local search engine results I was asked by a participant how her charity can be on Google Local without showing her address. I was stumped!

by Claudine Zap When Scott Brown successfully campaigned for the late Edward Kennedy 's vacant Senate seat, he used a pickup truck. Now to raise money for the upcoming election, he's trying a new tactic: Rachel Maddow . The liberal MSNBC talk-show host was called out in a fundraising email from the senator, which claimed that she would be running against him in 2012. While Maddow would fit the bill of a Massachusetts liberal (she has a house in the Western part of the state),

Tomorrow from 8:30 to 9:30pm local time, hundreds of millions of people around the world will switch off their lights and participate in Earth Hour , the largest climate awareness event ever held. As climate change will effect people on every continent, we think a united, global call for action to address the problem is needed. At Google we're working hard to be part of the solution for the climate crisis. A first step was pledging to be a carbon neutral company.

by Mike Krumboltz It's not every day that a movie with an endearingly goofy title like " Hot Tub Time Machine " hits theaters. Web searches on the raunchy comedy have been rockin' out for weeks, strong evidence that moviegoers are likely to take a dip in the '80s-inspired flick this weekend. And though the cast is impressive, with stars like John Cusack , Craig Robinson , and Rob Corddry all "kicking some past" when they travel back to the 1980s,

Hi Everyone, For this post, editor hiraeth has prepared an overview of her experience editing in the science categories. Enjoy! Emily - - - - - - - - - I'm a collector. In the same way that other people may collect stamps, coins or fossils, I collect websites. As an editor with the ODP, I spend a lot of time finding sites, labelling them, listing them and rearranging them.

At this point, it seems inevitable that people will object to every little tweak Facebook makes; even a 99.9 percent success rate would leave around 400,000 users unhappy. But Facebook has proposed some revisions to its Privacy Policy and Statement of Rights and Responsibilities in what appears to be an attempt to prepare everyone for some rather big changes. One interesting amendment relates to location. Michael Richter, Facebook's general counsel,

Yahoo! played a key part in several panels in the 2010 Search Engine Strategies Conference (SES) in New York this week. Here's a recap of some of the discussions and panel summaries. Check out the video below to see what Yahoos were discussing with people on the show floor. In the video, Rob Wilk , National Director of Search Optimization & Strategy, introduce his panel on Advanced Paid Search Tactics and David Miller talk about his session on Ads in a Quality Score World,

Posted by Nick Gerner Last week we updated the Linkscape index , and we've been doing it again this week. As I've pointed out in the past, up-to-date data is critical . So we're pushing everyone around here just about as hard as we can to provide that to you. This time we've got updated information on over 43 billion urls, 275 million sub-domains, 77 million root domains, and 445 billion links. For those keeping track, the next update should be around April 15.

The Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO) has shared the results of its annual State of Search Marketing Report. WebProNews talked about the findings with SEMPO's outgoing president Sara Holoubek at the Search Engine Strategies conference in New York (more exclusive interviews from the conference can be viewed here ). Holoubek tell us that they had a record number of respondents this year. "Almost 1,

If you get an email entitled You'r adds have stopped working! from lperez_bt@adwords.com , do not open it because it is not an email from Google AdWords. The following phishing email is being circulated : Dear Adwords Member, We hereby inform you that on the 26th of March a email change request has been submitted to Google. Due to our security settings you are required to confirm or decline the validity of the request. To do so please visit the link bellow.