One of our Google AdWords accounts just offered a new beta feature:

This feature allows local storage of your adwords data to make the experience more responsive.  The AdWords help page on the subject is here. This could be a very nice feature but is rather strange.
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Matt Cutts is the face of the Google search index and their efforts to combat spam. He recently posted a State of the Index presentation. It’s an interesting read for the Geekier amongst you. Of all 32 slides, page 15 should be of interest to web merchants.

If you have used the new “Labs > Site Performance” section of Google Webmaster Tools and been frustrated with the results, you will find the WebPageTest a veritable delight!
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Our goal at Contextured is to provide the best possible online marketing solution to small businesses. We can’t do that when our servers are offline so we treat any outage extremely seriously. Recently we suffered an hours outage at 5am when our domain registrar Heart Internet fouled up their name servers. After dialogue with their support staff it was obvious that they were not able to provide the level of service we demand.

This weekend we migrated to DNSMadeEasy. They offer a 100% uptime guarantees and offer 500% credits for any downtime.  This clearly aligns their incentives with our own. The switch was very easy.
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