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Why you should use Google Drive to store your photos

What a great story on what happened when a family uploaded their photos to Google Drive and linked up their Google+ account.

 I'm off to do the same with my photos.

http://bit.ly/1c24JuR

Free WordPress Essential Training

To mark the 100,000th viewer of this popular training course it is now free on +lynda.com for a month.

No excuses for not understanding how WordPress works now.

#freestuff   #wordpress

lynda.com originally shared:

To celebrate the 100,000th viewer of our popular WordPress Essential Training, we're making the course free to everyone for a full month! Watch, learn—and build! http://bit.ly/1Ab79TH

How do users find your app?

More and more apps are being developed and understanding how users find them is important to know.

Good old search will still surface apps 50% of the time.

h/t +Think with Google for this research, very helpful.

Google Analytics originally shared:

How do consumers really find & use your apps?

People download apps every day, but the truth is that many of them are abandoned or never even used. New Google and Ipsos research uncovers how people discover and engage with apps—and what brands can do about it. Learn more on the +Think with Google site at: https://goo.gl/da4xl8

New Adwords Editor

Finally support for Labels and to do Final URL's in bulk.

Happy days!

AdWords originally shared:

AdWords Editor now supports labels, Upgraded URLs, and more!

Late last year, we introduced AdWords Editor 11.0 [http://goo.gl/umFOzq], which represented the most significant update to the tool since it was released in 2006. Today, we’re introducing another exciting update to AdWords Editor, available to all advertisers globally. This version includes full support for labels, Upgraded URLs, call-only ads, ads in mobile apps, and much more.

You can learn more on our blog [http://goo.gl/8f5hHx], or upgrade now to AdWords Editor 11.1 [http://goo.gl/HfTGul]

PPC Best Practise

I presented at the SEJ Summit in London yesterday.

Here are the slides from my presentation.

Thanks for organising such a great event +Search Engine Journal and thanks for being the sponsor of the event and the after show reception +Searchmetrics 

Really enjoyed the other presentations from +David Naylor +Pierre Far +Nick Wilsdon +Marcus Tober +Kelsey Jones +Jon Myers 

http://bit.ly/1JGJLNJ

Please help with the relief efforts in Nepal

Show your support in any way you can for the people affected by the tragic events in Nepal.

#nepalquakerelief  

h/t +Cheapflights for supporting IMPACT for over 10 years.

Cheapflights originally shared:

Cheapflights has supported IMPACT for more than a decade. Here's how you can help their relief efforts in #Nepal  following the #nepalearthquake  at the end of April.

#charity   #help  

Now you can get even more accurate data about your search traffic in WMT

Maximise results from paid search campaigns

Looking forward to speaking at the +Search Engine Journal Summit in London on 12th May.

Let me know if you are going to be attending and if you have any burning PPC questions in advance of the event.

#SEJSummit

Search Engine Journal originally shared:

Discover useful strategies to identify your bottom 10%, and how to maximize the best results from your paid search campaign.

Don't miss Cheapflights' Jim Bank's session at #SEJSummit London on May 12! Request your free invite courtesy of Searchmetrics today: http://buff.ly/1ILWH4a

Big day today for new features for Adwords

Looking forward to seeing you  +Google Ads have up their sleeve.

I'm hoping for a new version of Adwords Editor and better tools for GDN campaigns.

What's on your wishlist?

Google Ads originally shared:

Join us tomorrow for the AdWords livestream

Sign up now and join us tomorrow, Tuesday, May 5th, for the annual AdWords livestream at 9:30am PT / 12:30pm ET! Jerry Dischler, VP of Product Management for AdWords, will announce new AdWords products, including:

-New and improved mobile ad experiences 

-Innovations in measurement, both across devices, online and offline

-Powerful tools that help you customize and scale all the things you do in AdWords

Register now: http://goo.gl/Lkkn1x

Ready to do it all again!

Looking forward to speaking at the upcoming #PeSA15  conference in the Gold Coast.

Got some amazing stuff to talk about since last year and particularly looking forward to being reunited with +Shahid Awan to do a panel on how you can use SEO and PPC together to maximum effect.

I'm also looking forward to seeing old friends again and making new acquaintances.

And I am sure the 2015 Google+ story will be just as fun to make.

Jim Banks originally shared:

I attended the #PeSA14 conference in the Gold Coast and this was what was in my Google+ account this morning after I got off the plane at 5am.

No work on my point, other than adding in a few comments and adding some tags to names of people in the pictures.

Thanks to +Phil Leahy for organising the event, to +Tim Ash +Brett Tabke and +Marty Weintraub for being amazing international keynote speakers and look forward to seeing you all again very soon.

Now, where did I put my jetlag?