"In short, we’ll treat you as a single user across all our products, which will mean a simpler, more intuitive Google experience," wrote Alma Whitten, director of privacy at Google.

Betsy Masiello, Google’s policy manager, says that the new privacy policy is intended to make "things simpler and we’re trying to be upfront about it.

Everything seems on the level and having one privacy policy does seem to make it easier for us users while we use Google and their various services.

However, there has been a response from eight house members in a form of a letter:

"While Google suggests that the purpose of this shift in policy is to make the consumer experience simpler, we want to make sure it does not make protecting consumer privacy more complicated," stated the letter. "We believe that consumers should have the ability to opt-out of data collection when they are not comfortable with a company’s terms of service and that the ability to exercise that choice should be simple and straightforward."

So there are members of the House currently making sure that Google is not trying to pull a fast one on us. That’s a good thing. Google must respond to this letter by Feb 16th.

Massiello had this response regarding opting out:

"If you are logged in, you can still edit or turn off your Search history, switch Gmail chat to ‘off the record,’ control the way Google tailors ads to your interests, use Incognito mode on Chrome, or use any of the other privacy tools we offer," noted Masiello in her post.

She also stressed that Google isn’t collecting any more data than it already did.

In truth, the only way to completely opt-out of Google’s data collection is to not log in and use their services. This is a choice that you will have to make.

If you have read through the new Privacy Policy you may notice that Google does collect information from you while you use their services. The thing is that they always have done this – its just now they want to use this information across their services interchangeably.

What does this mean to you?

Google is taking the information from almost all of its services, including Picasa, Gmail, YouTube, and Google Search, and consolidating them so they can know more about what you’re doing. They want to do this so they can start developing more integration between their apps and services. For example, Google will be able to “provide reminders that you’re going to be late for a meeting based on your location, your calendar and an understanding of what traffic is like that day.”

Basically, they are looking to cater the Google experience to be more personal for each individual. In order to this, they will need to gather and use information from most of their services.

The bottom line:

Google has already been gathering this information from you when you use its services. Now they are going to combine that data together to create a more personalized experienced for you.

As this progresses, and things become more personalized to each individual, it will affect internet marketing and seo on their services like Search and YouTube. However, we have already been moving in that direction. Rather than fight against it, we can go with the flow while we watch and learn how to utilize it to improve our online businesses.

Of course we will keep you posted if there are any further developments related to this. You can always count on the Internet Income Academy for the latest and greatest information regarding internet marketing, internet business, and making money online. Cheers!

Google’s new privacy policy goes into effect on March 1st 2012. To view Google’s new privacy policy go here: http://www.google.com/policies

January 2012 Contest – Win $500 (who will win?)
Only a few days left in this months contest – who will take home the $500 in cold hard greenbacks? click here

Fiverr.com, Review pages, First page results
Discussions continue this week inside the IIA Forum with topics ranging from fiverr.com to review pages to first page ranking results. We also have fellow member Dave asking for some help with his new website – check it out and see if you can help him…

SOPA, PIPA Curbed Due To World Wide Web Strike
Internet users, tech companies, and non-profits joined together to defend fundamental rights on the internet. To a lot of elites in Congress and the corporate world, the internet is just something that lazy teenagers use to spam people with pictures of photoshopped unicorns. The blackout showed that the peer-to-peer internet is about empowerment, and that when we work together we can defeat the corrupt politics… read more >>>

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Try going to http://wikipedia.org right now to see what I’m talking about and read more it.
Even Google has their logo blacked out.

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You can also get more information about it here:

http://sopastrike.com/

http://americancensorship.org/

Spread the word and send a quick email to congress. Let’s keep the web free…

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As another year closes and we move into 2012, many of us are thinking about our goals and resolutions for this next year. Where do we want to go? What do we want to learn? What do we want to accomplish?

Closing The Gap

One simple technique I like to use for reaching my goals is called
“Closing The Gap”. In this process, you take stock of where you are at now and where you want to be. It is a good idea to be specific and write these things down in detail. Once you have an accurate view of where you are and where you want to be, you can work towards closing the gap.

To actually close the gap, you can map out all the smaller steps that need to be done or simply take the next action that will bring you closer (like joining IIA to get the training you need to start a profitable internet business ). If you just keep taking that next step towards your goal, you will find that eventually you arrive at it.

Key Ideas:

1. Take a realistic inventory of where you are at (Point A)

2. Create a detailed vision of where you want to be (Point B)

3. Take consistent action steps to close the gap from Point A to Point B

Sounds pretty simple – so…

What holds us back from closing the gap?

It’s that dang thing called consistency and the lack of consistency is a thorn in all our sides. Consistency is powerful. Even very small steps over time can yield a large result like how small drops of water can eventually erode rock and metal.

Real world examples:

· One of my students reached a number #1 ranking for ALL their main keywords in 6 months just from working on their SEO strategy for 10 minutes per day. (If you don’t know what it means to be ranked number one for all your main keywords – it’s a big deal that equates to more traffic and more money for you).

· A friend of mine lost 30lbs in a few months by exercising only 20 minutes per day and eating healthier.

· A colleague of mine wrote his first book in 9 months by only committing to writing one page per day.

It just goes to show – small steps over time can yield fantastic results!

If lack of consistency is what holds us back from closing the gap…

How can we be more consistent?

Taking consistent action towards our goals really comes down to our willpower.

According to the dictionary:

 Willpower is the ability to control oneself and determine one’s actions.

That’s exactly what we need! If we have the willpower to take consistent actions we can close the gap on all our goals!

This sounds fantastic; however, many of us are not up to par in the willpower department. When it comes to taking consistent actions, we get distracted or give up too early. If we just had some more willpower, we probably wouldn’t have these problems…

So how do we get more willpower?

You’re in luck. New studies are showing that willpower can be strengthened like a muscle. A strong will power will be a powerful tool in your success arsenal. In fact, with enough will power, you can do almost anything you put your mind to.

To strengthen your will power, practice doing small things each day that force you to take control of yourself. Examples of this would be keeping your back straight throughout the day, meditating for a few minutes, or drinking 8 glasses of water each day.

Anything that you can do that forces you to control or discipline yourself will strengthen your will power over time. It will help if you keep it simple at first – like just work on keeping your back straight. Just like you wouldn’t go into the gym and try to bench press 400 lbs after not working out in years – don’t overdo it when starting to strengthen your willpower either.

Many people make goals and New Years resolutions, but without consistent action and the willpower to carry out those actions, nothing gets done. The exciting part is that it only takes small steps over time to equal big results and the will power needed to get you to actually take those steps can be strengthened over time! So start strengthening your will power today and maybe by this time next year, you can be the Arnold Swarchenegger of will power!

Remember:

You can strengthen your will power by doing something each day that forces you to control or discipline yourself. Start with something simple like just keeping your back straight or meditating for a few minutes. Your small efforts will compound on each other and over time your will power will increase exponentially until it becomes easy for you to finish anything you want to do!

$1.25 Billion Dollars!

Online spending is up again this year showing a continuing trend for people to shop online.

Spending on Cyber Monday is up 22% from last year totaling 1.25 Billion smackers spent online just on Monday November 28th, 2011. Cyber Monday’s recording breaking spending happened just after Black Friday showed 26% increase from 2010 with $816 million dollars spent.

More Buyers This Year

Spending this year increased due to more online buyers and more spending per buyer. Approximately 10 million people purchased goods online on Monday, up 11% from 2010. Average spending per buyer was also up 9% from 2010.

What does this mean for you?

As someone that is already running an internet business or just starting one, this is great news. There are so many opportunities to make money online right now and as spending continues to increase online, there is even a larger money pie to grab a piece of. (If you even made 1% of 1%, you would have made over $100,000 grand in one day).

If you didn’t get a piece of this years spending, don’t worry. With the continued growth trend, 2012 is set to be even bigger, and you still have a year to prepare. The Internet Income Academy is here to make sure that you have the resources you need to make 2012 a stellar year for your internet business.

This video on holiday affiliate marketing will give you a head start…

We are all grateful for this wonderful community we have.

If you want to learn more about this Holiday Tradition called “Thanksgiving” check out this link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving

Check out the contest here. Good luck to all!