While everyone is busy checking stats and making theories today..

Ok, I won't steal Ian's title that is supposed to drive many people to his article :)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22432171

Since Google changed the URL and PR flow within Google Plus, there has been lots of rumor on how Google must have killed PR and started from his

Rachel Hirsch writes about the opportunities for affiliate marketers in profitable, but risky areas like online trading.

And just like that, with no preamble, real explanation, or even an ending date, Google shutters another product that is used by just not enough people to make Google happy. 

After a two-year inquiry, the

Google's uploader crop tool seems to be kinda broken, so Dave put together a short video on a workaround so you don't have to have a massive header image eating up most of your monitor http://www.y

Here are the 35 arguments:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bT1ZfRtrJc&feature=player_embedded

The knife-depot.com recently blogged about how their Google Adwords account was shut down for supposedly violating Adwords TOS.

http://www.thedrum.com/news/2013/02/11/eric-schmidt-confirms-google-content-given-search-priority

Here's another great idea from Google:

1. Create a slew of broken results through a cocked-up algo update,

Remember the good old days of SEO, when everyone would wait with baited breath for the monthly Google Dance?

Worldwide, digital ad spending passed the $100-billion mark for the first time last year, according to new eMarketer estimates, and will increase by a further 15.1% in 2013 to $118.4 billion

I don't even know where to start. MarketingExperiments recent article, "Harnessing Social Media - Web 2.0 Grows Up - Free Internet Traffic," has so many holes and is so off the mark, it makes me wonder if they've been sipping too much of grandpa's cough syrup over there.

Just noticed this in one of my accounts:

If you're running Google adwords you may want to log in and check your accounts as they have done another quality score update overnight.

Danny Sullivan highlighted that Google is growing careless about publishers clicking their own ads:

Accidents happen from the Google Inside AdSense blog today caught my eye. Apparently, lots of publishers accidentally click on their ads and write in to Google to say sorry. Don't worry, says Google, "chances are we've already detected your clicks on your ads and discounted them." Bull.

Seriously, bull. Here's an example. Over on my personal blog Daggle, I have AdSense ads. If I accidentally click on one of those ads, how does Google know that it was me the blog owner that did that and thus automatically issues a credit?

Maybe they are trying to offset for the recent MFA purge.

I love listening to music via http://pandora.com/ whenever I'm not home, don't have an MP3 player, etc. I'm probably behind on when they first started advertising this way... but just noticed that they're rebranding the Pandora site every few times that I click through to refresh. The adverts appear to be Doubleclick URLs.

Collactive, a Seqouia backed company, has created a platform for spamming social bookmarking sites. The same company was originally behind a spam blocking email service.