Much like Facbooks "Block All Ads from..." feature, Google appears to be testing the ability to block all ads from one domain name on it's pay per click Adwords network.
The ability to block ads is not showing up for everybody at this point, but it does work whether or not you are signed into your Google account.
Credit to Andrew Girdwood for the image and original story.
In todays world of retail businesses, mobile businesses, and online businesses, there are many ways to accept non-cash payments and many benefits to business owners by accepting non-cash payments.
With increasing frequency, consumers are turning to debit and credit cards as their payments of choice for safety and security.
It can be easy to forget about marketing when it gets busy. Recently with an influx of new clients over the last few months, I haven't been giving my own website the time it deserves, and it began to show in the search engines.
With Google+ influencing personalized search results, when I periodically checked search results for demographically targeted terms such as "Campbell River Web Design" I was indexing well on page 1. Happy with the results, I would move on to another client project and forget about my website for a while.
Google is changing its privacy policy on March 1, 2012 and wants you to know about how it will affect your interaction with Google products and services.
Previously Google had separate privacy policies for each product and service they provided - over 60 in total! This privacy policy update is intended to simplify the policy for all users, by creating one global policy that applies to all Google products and services.
Read more: Demographic Advertising - Targeting Someone Who Just Drank a Latte
Last September, Facebook announced with the new open graph system and social actions, people would be able to go well beyond the "like" we all know so well. According to CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook will soon allow you to connect to anything you want in any way you want. Thanks to the new Facebook Timeline, advertisers are seeing many benefits.
2011 credit card spending trended upwards with 7% more consumers opting to use plastic in November and December, according to statistics gathered by First Data.
Read more: Are You Ready for the Growth in Credit Card Spending?
Online shopping saw a spike over the holidays as deal hunters fired up their smart phones and laptops to browse for boxing day bargains. On December 25, 2011 online sales grew more than 16% compared to last year.
In the last few months we have been priviledged to have the opportunity to save many businesses significant amounts of money on their credit and debit card processing accounts. In fact, 7 Campbell River businesses so far have saved $7140 with WEBSENSE payment solutions, an average of $1020 per business per year!
If there was ever any doubt as to the potential success of mobile payment technology, we only have to look at Starbucks mobile payments app that handled over 26 million transactions in less than a year after it was introduced! One out of every four transactions that is processed at Starbucks is done on a mobile device.
For mobile payment solutions, WEBSENSE can help! You can accept payments on your cell phone, or on our mobile payment processing terminal. Great for artists, craft fairs, farmers markets and more.
Read more: 26 Million Reasons the Future of Payments is Mobile
Following a September 2011 increase to posts as long as 5,000 characters, Facebook now allows a post length of more than 60,000 characters since November 2011.
It seems that Facebook has noticed the value of Google+ and it's long post lengths, and this may go a long way to appeasing journalists who have been favouring platforms other than Facebook.
Fast websites are crucial to keep the consumer(s) interest in your products and services, and to contribute to better search rankings. Quite often when a website is slow, owners are quick to blame the web hosting company. There are many things to consider when a website is performing slowly, and often the web host is not at fault.
WEBSENSE servers are performance tuned to ensure the fastest page load times with many popular softwares such as Joomla, Drupal, and Wordpress.
Walter Jakeway chose Websense to set up his election campaign website, email, and social media; and now he is the new Campbell River mayor. Next time you want to come out ahead, Websense can build you an optimized website that is easily found by your target demographic, with full social media integration.
I worked on Mark Sullivan's campaign website for his run at Campbell River city council in the 2011 municipal elections. Don't forget to vote on November 19th!
If you need a short term website for any kind of campaign, WEBSENSE can help.
Read more: New Campbell River Website Sullivanforcouncil.net
I just completed Walter Jakeway's mayoral candidate website www.crmayor.com. Talk about working on a tight deadline...
Need a site on a tight deadline? WEBSENSE can help!
