Help Me Stop This Now!

Help me put an end to childhood cancer!
As a father of two I was deeply moved by this video:


I’m going to do something pretty extreme, and I’m asking you to support me with a donation for childhood cancer research!

What am I doing?  I’m going to have my head shaved at a St. Baldrick’s Foundation event.

With my bald head, I’ll stand in solidarity with kids being treated for cancer. But the real point of all this is to raise money for life-saving research.  I’m doing it for infants, children, teens and young adults fighting cancer.  While it’s especially hard to think of kids fighting cancer, I’m also glad to know that some of the research supported by this foundation ultimately helps to fight all cancers.

Please make a donation on my head and come watch us “Shaving the Way to Conquer Kids’ Cancer!”

March 10th at The Harp Irish Pub 1425 Market Blvd Suite 1339 Roswell, GA

http://tinyurl.com/BaldDrew

Google Webmaster Tools Error

 I find it ironic that I got a 404 error when trying to download my 404 errors from Google Webmaster Tools:

Andrew in a 4H shirt at the Fort in St. Augustine

Picture taken of me last summer in St. Augustine Florida. Okay, maybe it wasn't last summer...it was summer though...circa 1981. lol

Google Rich Snippet Testing Tool

Google recently announced that it has released a new version of the rich snippet testing tool which it has also renamed the "structured data testing tool".

There are three changes to the tool:

1. An improvement in how they display rich snippets in the testing tool to more closely match how they would appear in the search results.
2.  They have tweaked the UI and appearance of the tool to make the data that is extracted and used from the page more transparent.
3. Lastly, Google has made the tool available in more languages.

The tool also allows you to track the number of items (objects) and number of pages where the objects are found:

The tool can also be used to see what structured data other sites (including competitors) are using as well as what components Google is pulling from the page. The rich snippet testing tool is available to everyone (without logging in.) To try the tool yourself, visit: http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets.

Here’s an example of the available data using a story from Bloomberg: