I guess no matter who you are, it’s easy to forget about the small stuff -Like renewing your SSL certificate to safely collect millions of dollars hourly…

I tried to log into a Google Adwords account today, and this is what I saw -

An expired security certificate. It showed up in both Firefox and Internet Explorer, so I grabbed a couple of screen shots…

An attorney got in touch with me a couple of months ago after reading a blog post I had written at SEMpdx. Google had just drastically lowered visibility of the option where new advertisers could opt out of the Content Network in Google AdWords, and I was compelled to point out that I thought it was sneaky.

Have you ever tried to remove a Google Analytics account? What a pain in the neck this is, and I really can’t understand why.

The other day I ran up against my account limit of having too many Analytics accounts associated with my Gmail address. Going through my list of domains, I realized that there were lots of old accounts from months and even years ago that I no longer use and wanted to remove.

There’s apparently a bug in Google PageRank at this very moment, causing a PR0 to appear for many pages from many geographic locations, and I had a brief moment of panic.

I just happened to notice that one of my sites was a PR0 – That was odd, so I checked another, and another, 5 domains, all PR0. Then I looked at my blog, and it too had been knocked down to a zero. Oh no, my link juice, all gone!

This sounds to me like a great thing, being able to bypass all of the bureaucracy involved in bringing fast high speed wireless to rural areas with land lines.

There’s a reason we in the United States are NOT the worlds leader in high speed internet, much less wireless, and in my opinion, it has to do with payola, and not a lack of technology.

This is a quick 3 minute look at the new Google experimental view options, and how the searchers behavior and intent will change the serps at the click of the mouse. This is just a glimpse of what’s coming, and I sort of like it.

I thought this was neat, and it gave me a chance to try out the new Revver plug-in for Wordpress – Pretty cool. Not to mention, that for now there are no ads in Google’s experimental search for now

I just noticed a change in Google’s listings, and I hope it’s permanent. Google local is now showing 10 single line listings above the regular organic listings, instead of 3 multi-line listings, and they’re showing all 10 just taking up the same space.

Although it’s been reported by lots of news outlets and search engine writers, my kids still had not heard that Google has teamed up with Norad this year to help improve it’s Santa tracking using Google Earth.

It’s pretty amazing, and you’d better go take a look right now!

Virus Marketing -

When I ran a computer store in the late 90’s, a lot of people would bring in computers with viruses and spyware to be removed, and they would usually ask us what the “point” was in these acts of cyber vandalism.

Nearly a year and a half ago I mentioned the Google phone was coming, and to everyone’s surprise, it has taken incredibly long.

With a typical PR update, the data used is usually older, and it’s always been my belief that it’s at least three months old. With today’s update, however, I’m finding some pages that have PR that are a little bit fresher…

Overnight, there was an actual Google PR update (finally),  and some people got slapped, while others got helped.  After noticing this morning, I posted my thoughts and a couple of examples about this TBPR update over at SEMpdx. Please check it out, and leave a comment if you’re so inclined…