Faith is an evolutionary imperative. When man is born, he has faith in his first experiences. He believes that his mother will feed and protect him, just as she had. The cave man had faith that he would find food when he went out looking for it. If not, he would have never left his cave…
Today is the Singles Day, commonly referred to as the “Single Dog Day”, taking place in China on the 11/11 each year. The event was created by the giant Alibaba and is not unlike Cyber Monday. You may ask yourself why “single dog?” and you wouldn’t be alone. The story behind the 11/11 shopping bonanza…
Having a wonder in Macau today. It’s only 15 minutes to the border from where I live in Zhuhai, so extremely easy. With a UK passport all I need do is fill an entry and exit form and Bob’s your uncle. The Stone Forrest of Macau. This place was very pretty and serene. It’s the…
You may not know where all your calls are coming from, but with AdWords Call Metrics, at least you can find out which ones are coming from your ads.
Conditional bid management automation is a well received tool and up until now, its either cost you for need of software/systems development or for need of paying for a solution from a third party provider such as Acquisio. Today I was delighted to finally see the prompt from AdWords that the new Automation tool has…
There are several circumstances in which I might buy an aged domain but two stand out from the crowd. This short post will give a quick overview of these two uses and what you should look out for when purchasing an aged domain name. Buying an Aged Domain name to rank for a target keyword or search…
14,000 tweets in one day This was the effect of Gordon Brown’s blunder when he referred to Gillian Duffy, a long-time Labour party supporter a “bigoted woman”. It is a moment begging the question: what role does the internet play in informing voters about what really matters to them? And what are the online consequences…
Have Google lost their AdSense? Some of Google’s search results pages in the UK are no longer using the old pale yellow background colour for displaying it’s AdWords ads into and are now using a more expressive green ad format. I would not go so far as to say that this is a case of…
OK, so it’s not technically that sneaky, or is it? We know Google has had a major issue regarding it’s service in mainland China and that the Chinese have insisted that Google be responsible for the censorship of its own materials, even though what was supposed to be censored was never actually specified, but would…
