Our search engine marketing and social media Tweets from September 1 to September 10, 2009.

• After being diagnosed by a doctor, nearly half of us turn to the Web for more info. About.com survey (via eMarketer).
• We continue our WordPress plugins series with ‘Google Analytics for WordPress.’ Group 3 Solutions blog post by Brad Kelley.
• Beverly Stayart (who?) didn’t like Yahoo’s SERPS for her name. So she sued. The court dismissed. What about the SERPS now? Via Search Engine Watch.
• Joe Posnanski peppers his Sports Illustrated Viewpoint column with ‘Tweets.’ Very fun.
• Google blogs that they have increased the size of their search box. Also larger text for queries and for refinements.
• The Google homepage through the years, including the prototype hosted on Stanford’s servers.
• Search marketers leaving branding money on the table. comScore: ’5% of all media branding ad dollars (are) spent online.’
• ‘Opportunities Tab’ in AdWords account ‘helps you find additional cost-effective traffic for your search campaigns.’ http://j.mp/KkVOz
• Wikia, the for-profit initiative of Wikipedia’s founder, ‘has reached profitability ahead of forecasts.’ WSJ Digits.
• Using and understanding Akismet is a great way to fight comment spam on your WordPress blog. Group 3 Solutions post.
• Local KC ad giant Bernstein-Rein lets your headline ‘appear on real digital billboards.’ Honor McD’s Angus. www.HonorAngus.com
• Obama to students: The story of America is students who sat where you are who went on to found Google, Twitter, Facebook. Official White House site.
• It’s not much for you veterans, but today we celebrate our 200th Tweet. Here’s blog look at our 100th.
• Good info from Mashable on using Twitter’s advanced search features  and location-aware Tweets.
• Mark Cuban wanted a ‘media pool’ of unpaid interns for his Dallas Mavs. He was incredulous that such interns are illegal.
• Group 3 Solutions Blog by Brad Kelley: Part 1 in a WordPress plugins series. This time we look at the All-In-One SEO Pack. Next up, Akismet.
• We just saved 1.428714286% on our Tweets! We switched to Geico, er, j.mp. O.K., it’s still bit.ly, but 2 less characters.
• Justin, 28, just Tweets ‘stuff’ that his dad, 73, says. Salty, but a quarter-million followers worth of good stuff.
• NPR to the Internet: ‘You Don’t Look A Day Over 30.’ Happy 40th to Al Gore’s baby, the Internet.
• Yahoo: ‘We’re rolling out a web index update over the next few days…ranking changes and page shuffling…’ We at Group 3 Solutions are not seeing much chatter.    
• Digg adds NOFOLLOW ‘to any external link that we’re not sure we can vouch for.’ Google’s Matt Cutts on the tag.
• Folks aren’t happy about Southwest’s new $10 fee for EarlyBird Check-in. But we admire leaving in the blog comments.
• Inside Facebook: Women still outnumber men on Facebook 57-43%, but the gap is narrowing.
• ‘Are you leveraging 100% of Google Analytics? Use this checklist to find out.’ (via Google’s Avinash Kaushik)

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