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Making regular backups of the data on your computer is a smart thing to do, though it can be tedious. Burning CDs or DVDs, or moving files to an external hard drive once a week (or however often you plan to back up your data) is a time consuming process. That’s why many people seek automated backup solutions, whether local or online.

In the Google PPC (Pay-Per-Click) program, which Google Adwords can pay the most money to Adsense publishers for Adsense clicks?

I don't know how much Google pays out for the top Ad Words (70%?), but I have compiled my own top-paying keyword word list by using the free, public Overture Bid Tool, which is now gone. However, you can now check your words using the Free Google AdWords Keyword Suggestion Tool.

Here is the list of Top Paying Keywords:

Key Words bid greater than $30

Tomorrow, Barack Obama will be sworn in as the 44th president of the United States and the first African-American chief executive of the country. That is indeed a historic moment in American politics and race relations, and Obama’s campaign certainly had a good deal of significance, especially in terms of how it utilized the Internet.

According to Google Operating System, Google is testing a new search customization option for select users called Google Preferred Sites. If you have access to the service, you’ll find the option on your preferences page when logged in (it isn’t turned on for me).

I’m very fortunate to live close to a pair of great weekly farmer’s markets, but in many parts of the country, getting locally produced, farm fresh foods is a difficult — or at least expensive and time consuming endeavor. The New York Times today profiled a new site called Foodzie that aims to bring the farmer’s market into the 21st century by creating an Etsy-style web marketplace for small artisan food producers and growers.

A few days ago we ran a post that described how to find breaking news on Twitter. Our suggestion was to watch for trending terms on sites like Twopular and the Twitter search page, and then compare them against search and news trends using Google Trends to find articles about trending topics.

I tested a private beta today called thisMoment, and it was fascinating.

The service is focused on the idea of “You over Time,” with both personal and collective aspects that allow users to create a digital reflection of their lives. Through photos, video, blogging, other media and social elements, thisMoment effectively creates a user experience unlike any I know of (the closest that comes to mind is Jeremy Keith’s Adactio Elsewhere).

On Wikipedia’s 8th birthday, Yahoo! announced that it would be adding a Wikipedia SearchMonkey application to all search results for US users. SearchMonkey is Yahoo!’s search engine developer platform launched last May that allows web developers to enhance search results with custom applications.

Some times ago I joined Friendfeed but it's was too complicated at the first glance for me.
But on night as my wife was at a meeting and I was alone at home I surfed around in Friendfeed and read all I could found how to use it.
And I was surprised!
It's really one of the best community building and also traffic building tool I know.

Here are the steps you have to follow when you want to drive traffic to your site with Friendfeed (I'm sure these are only the basic steps, I'll update this post as soon I discovered more useful info):

Mihaela Lica joins the SitePoint blogging team, relaying her SEO tips, tricks and expertise.

For too many, SEO is synonymous with ranking on the first SERP page in Google. For too many, optimizing a site for Google means getting links, many links, no matter what. Defining and redefining SEO will not change the way these people perceive it. This is not an article for them. Those webmasters who optimize solely for Google are basically targeting only 70% of the search engine market, and disregarding the rest.