One session definitely worth attending at next month’s SES in San Francisco is Real-Time Storytelling where panelists will discuss how mainstream media must embrace social media and take on the critical role of curator of the conversation in order to survive. I was able to catch up with Dermot Waters, Senior Director of Product Development, CNN.com, who will be participating on the panel. Read our chat below:[Manoj]: What is CNN’s approach to real time and how important is it as foundational strategy of spreading the news?[Dermot Waters]: At its core, CNN was founded on the concept of real-time storytelling…

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For this post we’re going to be talking with Steven Wyer of Reputation Advocate. Steve, for my readers who aren’t familiar with your firm, can you tell me a little bit about yourself?

Reputation Advocate started in 2006 and is based just outside of Nashville, Tennessee in Williamson County. I have a deep history in media, marketing and software development and came to ORM out of a personal need…

Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD.

The content revolves around web design, blogging and funny situations that we encounter in our daily lives as designers.

These great cartoons are created by Jerry King, an award-winning cartoonist who’s one of the most published, prolific and versatile cartoonists in the world today.

So for a few moments, take a break from your daily routine, have a laugh and enjoy these funny cartoons…

The ValueTrack parameter has long allowed you to track the clicks that you get via search and the Google Display Network separately. We know that many of you would like to be able to see the clicks you get from mobile ads separately as well. That’s why we’re pleased to introduce Mobile ValueTrack, a new way for you to do just that.

Mobile ValueTrack works the same way it does for search and content: by automatically adding a tag to your website URL…

Search Engine Strategies is less then a month away and this year it’s taking place at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Earlier this week I had the opportunity to catch up with Andrew Chang, Marketing Manager at LinkedIn, to get some insight into his session on PPC and SEO best practices—specific to B2B. Read our conversation below:[Manoj]: Your session at SES is related to SEO/PPC strategies with regards to B2B, how does LinkedIn become part of equation?[Andrew Chang]: Millions of people visit LinkedIn each day to connect and re-connect with colleagues and business associates…

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.

From Search Engine Land:

• All New Microsoft Bing Webmaster Tools

  Today, Microsoft launched a revamp of their Bing Webmaster Tools. I talked to them back in June, when they previewed the tools at SMX Advanced, and they told me that they were starting from scratch and rebuilding the tool from the group up…

Two Microsoft papers being presented at this week’s SIGIR’10 conference in Geneva, Switzerland explore the topics of Search Trails – The pages that a searcher travels through after performing a search for a query before reaching a final destination page.

The idea of delivering searchers to a final destination page, a page where previous [...]…

In the next part of our video series, Alton, our Optimization specialist, shares with us his experience working with publishers, his favorite meal at Google, and some recommendations on summer reading.For more videos, please visit our YouTube channel.Posted by Katrina Kurnit – Inside AdSense Team

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Chris Dixon had an interesting post a while ago about how to find start-up ideas. The advice boiled down to keeping a spreadsheet of ideas and talking to lots of smart people (entrepreneurs, potential customers, VCs, people at big companies). It’s good advice. Paul Graham also wrote in 2008 about startup ideas he’d like to fund.

Here’s another way to come up with startup ideas: walk around your house or apartment, and look for “hot spots…

About a month ago I went to a client meeting where they had a glass whiteboard in the conference room. This was the first one I had ever seen and I remarked how cool it was. The folks at Clarus GlassBoards were monitoring for keywords on twitter, and reached out to me about sending a sample for review purposes.

Glass Whiteboard from Clarus

Now if you’ve never seen a glass whiteboard it’s a pretty substantial item, a lot more sturdy and durable than your ordinary dry erase board…

Excellent Penn & Teller program on multi-level marketing. BTW, NSFW. Those who are easily offended, shouldn’t watch it. Any of it. Not one minute…..

As Penn & Teller rightly point out….

Easy Money Is BS

These multi-level marketing schemes aren’t limited to home parties for sex toys, BBQ accessories, and household cleaners, of course. They are rife on the internet. If you’ve spent any time in internet marketing circles, you’ll have seen hundreds, no doubt…

First, get familiar with the board. The dutch LinkBuilding.nl outfit have the link building board clearly laid out for your benefit.

Downloads:

• Updated Feb 8, 2010: Internal Link Building, a WordPress plugin. It optimizes your internal navigation so that you can rank like Wikipedia. General info: Check the Internal Link Building page. Update info: Check Marios’ updates…

Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD.

The content revolves around web design, blogging and funny situations that we encounter in our daily lives as designers.

These great cartoons are created by Jerry King, an award-winning cartoonist who’s one of the most published, prolific and versatile cartoonists in the world today.

So for a few moments, take a break from your daily routine, have a laugh and enjoy these funny cartoons…

Online marketing is more than our profession – it’s our passion. Opportunities to learn and share know-how seem never in short supply. Each year we venture across the world to attend an array of industry events, and we return home with fresh ideas and lasting business contacts. The first half of 2010 has taken aimClear from Duluth to Portland, New York to London, Austin to Toronto, Sydney to Santa Clara– to events including  SES, SMX, SEMpdx, SXSW, and 140Conf– and we’re excited to announce our speaking schedule and conference agenda for Q3 & 4…

This summer and fall, the AdSense team is coming to visit you! In an effort to work more closely with our publishers, we’ve launched the AdSense in Your City program. As part of the program, members of the AdSense team will be traveling to five cities this summer to hear directly from you, as well as to share best practices, top optimization tips, and new products.Last month, we kicked off our first AdSense in Your City event in Mountain View, California…

On June 3rd, we invited you to participate in the launch of our new Billing tab– giving you more control over when and how much you’re charged. Today, we’re excited to announce the new Billing tab’s wider launch. Although some of you already have the new tab in your account, we’ll be rolling it out to all advertisers in the coming months. The upgrade doesn’t require any action from you — your billing method and form of payment will stay the same…

Asking for permission to add someone to your email marketing list is not just a courtesy, it’s an important part of your email program’s long term success. If you fail to ask for permission, email recipients may end up marking your messages as “spam” – hurting your sender reputation with ISPs, which can hurt your delivery rates, meaning your messages may not beat spam filters for your other subscribers…

Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD.

The content revolves around web design, blogging and funny situations that we encounter in our daily lives as designers.

These great cartoons are created by Jerry King, an award-winning cartoonist who’s one of the most published, prolific and versatile cartoonists in the world today.

So for a few moments, take a break from your daily routine, have a laugh and enjoy these funny cartoons…

Your opinion matters to us! So we’ve put together a short survey so you can tell us how we’re doing, and what you’d like to see more of on the Inside Adsense blog. We hope you’ll take the time to let us know what’s on your mind — click to give us your feedback.If you’re keen on letting us know how you feel about our product and support, remember that you can opt-in to receive invitations to test new features, surveys about Google AdSense, and heads up about opportunities to provide feedback about your experiences by email…

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.

From Search Engine Land:

• Bing Helps LeBron James Make His Decision On Live TV

  Once again taking advantage of top trends in pop culture and social search, Bing.com is hoping to shoot and score a large number of new fans as a presenting sponsor of the widely anticipated press conference, titled “The Decision”, to be aired live on ESPN (tonite) Thursday, July 8, at 9 pm ET, where NBA […

Continuing our Behind the Scenes video series is Alejo, our AdSense for video and AdSense for games specialist. Alejo tells us about his first job, which city he’d love to live in, and what he’d like every AdSense publisher to know.For more videos, please visit our YouTube channel.Posted by Dia Muthana – Inside AdSense Team

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Photo Credit: OCJess Last week, Filament Group’s Scott Jehl presented on Optimizing for Mobile Web, at the 2010 Voices That Matter Conference in San Francisco. Scott’s presentation covered the techniques we used and insights we discovered while creating our new mobile-optimized website, and included examples of how we use the EnhanceJS framework to decide not only whether to provide browsers basic or enhanced experience, but also to deliver optimized experiences to desktop and mobile browsers…

Photo Credit: OCJess Last week, Filament Group’s Todd Parker presented topics from our book, Designing with Progressive Enhancement, at the 2010 Voices That Matter Conference in San Francisco. Todd’s presentation talked about the importance of developing for universal accessibility, and included examples of how we use the EnhanceJS framework to build complex interactions that leverage the latest technologies while remaining usable for those with less capable browsers and devices…

Anyone over the age of 30 who spends any amount of time online has to be aware of the gradual erosion of online privacy and how we are slowly moving to a point where our online life has become opted-in by default.

… sacrifice your privacy on the altar faster than an Aztec Priest could ever rip out your still-beating heart … A disturbing trend among people in the valley and other technology centric locations is the subjugation or near-complete surrender of one’s work, one’s copyright, intellectual property, and sometimes complete self to the great computer singularity (a concept I am shamelessly stealing from Jaron Lanier)…

Sebastian is the technical genius and SEO behind Sebastian’s Pamphlets. This warm fellow’s well-known avatar is rather ironic – a crab! We’re continuing the Sphinner interview series that began with Dave ‘theGypsy’ Harry.

1) What benefits have you seen from your activity at Sphinn?

Sphinn is the best aggregator for SEM stuff (stories, links, discussions), ever…

Every week we feature a set of comics created exclusively for WDD.

The content revolves around web design, blogging and funny situations that we encounter in our daily lives as designers.

These great cartoons are created by Jerry King, an award-winning cartoonist who’s one of the most published, prolific and versatile cartoonists in the world today.

So for a few moments, take a break from your daily routine, have a laugh and enjoy these funny cartoons…

Do you ever wonder who’s helping you optimize your webpages? Who works hard to ensure your payments get to you on time? Who works with our product and engineering teams to deliver the products and features that you want?Over the next few weeks you’ll find out just that! We’re kicking off a video series where you’ll meet some of our AdSense team members. You can hear their stories, learn more about their role in AdSense, and listen to the tips they have to offer…

“Are my ads showing? If they aren’t, why not?”

Whether you have ten keywords or ten thousand, making sure your ads are showing is a top priority. Now you can get detailed diagnostic information for multiple keywords at once by using a new keyword diagnosis option on the Keywords tab.

To get started, open the “More actions” menu on your Keywords tab (at the account, campaign, or ad group level) and select “Diagnose keywords…

At approximately 1:40pm Pacific Time today, we encountered an issue that prevented ads from being shown on Google.com and Search Partner sites.  Our engineering team has diagnosed the issue and is working hard to restore service.  As of now, most of the service has been restored.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, and will update you with more details as soon as we’ve fully resolved the issue…

I’d like to say thanks to the people who sponsored the blog this month, without them there wouldn’t be regular posts here.

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CrazyEgg.com – Supplement your analytics with action information from click tracking heat maps.

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