Google Local Business Ads (Beta) Launches Google AdWords and Google Local are working together to bring response driven advertising to local businesses with the new Beta offering of Google Local Business Ads. (Yes, the Google Map ads with the cool AdWords ad & logo in the tack balloon.) Available for small or big brick and [...]

Google AdWords Dynamic Keyword Insertion Not Working? There have been some sporadic reports of the Dynamic Keyword Insertion feature within Google AdWords has not been working. There is a good thread where AdWordsAdvisor sums up the reports at WebmasterWorld. To be precise, there have been three threads about this subject so far this week, with [...]

Bizarro World : Associated Press Plagiarizing Blogs Larisa Alexandrovna at The Huffington Post shares an account of her material and ideas being stolen by an Associated Press writer with no credit to the blog what-so-ever. Better yet (better as in it makes the story juicier) an AP Senior Editor told Huffington Post that the Press [...]

Google Foundation Working with TechnoServe in Ghana Google has announced on the Google Blog that the Google Foundation is now working with Technoserve, an organization who’s mission is to help entrepreneurs organically grow businesses which boost fair wage employment in impoverished countries. Google and Technoserve are launching a national business plan competition this week in [...]

Google AdSense & Advertising Killing Site Linkability? Do the Google AdSense ads on your site hurt the linkability of the site? Aaron Wall of the AdSenseless SEO Book looks at how stuffing a site full of Google AdSense ads may affiliate the goals of that site with purely being focused around gathering AdSense clicks. I’ve [...]