The weekly round-up of our Search Engine Marketing (and related) Tweets.
- ‘Bing Continues to Grab Market Share.’ eMarketer: ‘All agree that Bing is slowly but steadily inching up in share.’
- Avinash Kaushik: ‘massively under-appreciated opportunity exists to…measure impact of branding campaigns online.’
- Radio DJ Guy: Traffic sponsored by ‘the more personalized Yahoo. The Internet Is Under New Management…Yours.’ Congestion still reigned.
- Do you get pennies on the dollar when you sell your books back? Amazon’s Kindle DX hits campus to mixed reviews.
- Zack Greinke will win the AL Cy Young. Just ask Joe Posnanski: Having a year equaled by six other pitchers ever.
- ClickZ: ‘How to Use Twitter to Become a Marketing Genius.’ Follow, search, personalize it.
- ‘Your Web Analytics Checklist.’ Page tagging, IP address exclusion, page naming, content grouping, etc. ClickZ
- Joe-College.com gave us: ‘When It Comes to Football Coaches: Size Matters.’ (See Coach Mangino) KU sued and won $660k.
- 10 billion video views in August gives YouTube 40% market share. Next closest? Microsoft, with 2.2%.
- ‘Keep Up with the Latest Trends Using Google Search.’ Match a Top 100 search query, get a graph of ‘useful data.’
- Final in our series of Top 10 plugins: WordPress.com Stats. Supplements Google Analytics data. Group 3 Solutions.
- Tx Tech Tweet: ‘Wondering why I’m still in this meeting room when the head coach can’t even be on time.’ Mashable.
- Deal killer: Looks to us like j.mp does not show a Tweet snippet in your account history (which bit.ly does). Anyone else experience this?
- Our take on Yahoo ads? Similar to PC Mag and others…60 secs of folks having fun while not online, plus an ‘!’ in Y!ou.
- ‘Recruiting Is Social…Jobvite get(s) everyone involved to find and hire the right talent.’ Inside Facebook.
- Sitemaps are a great way to submit — free — all URLs from your site to the SEs, plus receive important metrics back.
- ‘We have seen major ISPs…incorporate…marketing performance metrics into their spam filtering processes.’ ClickZ.
- Wash Post bans Tweets, etc. ‘that could be perceived as reflecting political racial, sexist, religious or other bias.”
- KC Chiefs Coach Haley said he could beat last year’s 2 wins w/ ‘22 guys off the street.’ With a loss today, he’s still looking for 1 win.
- Happy Birthday Goog11e. (No, it’s not spelled wrong … check out the logo. )
- ‘Get a clear understanding of what a place is all about’ with Place Pages for Google Maps.
- In-snippet links require page sections with associated anchors, descriptive name and table of contents. Google blog.
- Great ClickZ article on optimizing videos for YouTube. After all, YT generates about 25% of Google’s monthly searches.
- You’re a blogger…or you’re going to be, right? In case you’re the latter, here are some reasons to start. Group 3 Solutions Blog.
- Group 3 Solutions blog: Flexi Pages, a WordPress plugin that helps you use WP as a publishing platform.
- ‘Analyze This’ (new column at SEL): Search growth of 100% in 4 yrs, CPC costs up, 56% of queries have no paid ads.
- ‘Every new win is important. It adds to momentum and visibility. This is a business of momentum.’ Mullen gets Zappos.
- Search Engine Land: ‘Google has a beta version of a new keyword tool available in the AdWords console.’
- Bank sends email to wrong Gmail account, then sues to determine the identity of the recipient. Mashable.
- WashU researchers make electronic messages Vanish over time. Good for privacy. Oops, rival group makes them Unvanish.
- Our Weekly Roundup of Search Engine Marketing and Social Media Tweets. Group 3 Solutions blog.
- @odomlewis GA undercounts, bit.ly overcounts: 1. JavaScript. 2. bit.ly url requested but not followed. 3. Bots. Article.
- Nielsen/Facebook alliance offers BrandLift … ‘to provide…effectiveness measurement for Facebook advertising.’
- Advanced Category Excluder, a WordPress plugin, lets you omit categories from any blog item, including RSS. G3 blog.