All things search engine marketing, advertising, analytics and Kansas City in 140 characters or less, through 10/02/2009.

• bit.ly makes upgrades to History and File Uploads. bit.ly blog.  Promises more is on the way.
• ‘Twitter users were much more likely to express positive sentiments than negative.’ Penn State study via eMarketer
• CarolDobies: Great session at #shsmd on ‘Patients in the Digital Age’ withAnn Koreisha and Carrie Liken of Google Health and Ed Bennett of UMMS.
• Lively discussion at Webmaster World regarding AdWords bans for poor landing page quality and other issues.
• Hard to believe that IE6 (not 7 not 8 not FireFox) is still the most popular browser and has 25% market share. Mashable
• Whether it’s Basket Weaving or Rocket Science, your site can’t rank well for terms about which there is no strong content.
• Search Engine Land points out a couple updates to Google Webmaster tools verification feature. Now easier to verify.
• The first time we heard a Sony Walkman it blew us away. Today we are blown away thinking that was 30 years ago! WSJ.
• Nice tips from Search Engine Land on how to ‘Make Google Analytics Your SEO Watchdog.’   
• LinkedIn Profile Organizer (premium feature): ‘Lets you save profiles, organize them into folders, and add notes.’
• It had to happen. Site launched as ‘trading post’ to request or give Google Wave invites. Good luck!  
• ‘A recent Forrester Research report stated that video in e-mail is increasing CTRs’ and other enewsletter tips. Clickz.
• WTF? LOL! Wisconsin Tourism Federation (WTF) changes name to Tourism Federation of Wisconsin. (TFW). No wonder! AllThingsD.
• ‘Miley Cyrus KC Concert Cancelled (sic),’ the email reads. Just rescheduled because of illness. Scalpers rejoice!
• ‘To explore Google’s prospects for staying ahead, BusinessWeek…got a close look at…secretive search quality group.’
• ‘We hope you get a chance to try out these powerful new ways to refine your search results.’ Google blog. 9 new tools.
• ‘The trend has been downwards for Bing since mid August.’ StatCounter:  Google Sept. market share 80% , Bing/Yahoo 18%.
• Is a Comcast/NBC Universal deal imminent, or are they just having talks? Rumors are flying, Comcast is denying.   
• Hoping for ‘a deeper view into the relevant content available…throughout the web,” Google offers forum posts in SERPS.
• Mashable’s social media tips for small biz. Multimedia, integration, adaptation, local, contests/offers.  
• ‘The idea is to allow people to curate lists of Twitter accounts.’ Watch for Twitter Lists rolling out soon.
• Full disclosure from ‘2/3 Object to Tracking’ authors? Matt Cutts. ‘Choice of questions…can make a huge difference.’
• Forum discussion at Webmaster World on Microsoft Security Essentials: a new, free tool to combat malware.  
• Good B2B content creation ideas from Search Engine Land. Articles, blogs, images, surveys, video, webinars.  
• We saw a billboard on the morning commute with the time and location of an upcoming Psychic Fair. Wouldn’t all the psychics already know?
• 34 Tweets. 1 blog post.  Group 3 Solutions’ weekly Tweet Roundup. SEM, stats, analytics and a Kansas City note or 2.

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