A weekly roundup of our Tweets on search engine optimization and marketing, advertising, analytics and Kansas City.

• Yahoo to end Search Submit, its paid inclusion program.  ‘Committing our resources…to our core areas of focus.’
• ‘Westlake Ace Hardware has tapped Kansas City, MO-based…Barkley to take on its CRM and database marketing.’ DMNews
• ‘We believe the worst of the recession is behind us,’ Google says in reporting 7% year-over-year revenue growth. WSJ
• White House converses with LinkedIn community ‘regarding the challenges faced by health care professionals…’
• Was the media ‘punk’d by Balloon Boy?’ Mashable | Twitter, Facebook mash up the story. Mashable
• Us: ‘We Don’t Use the Keyword Meta Tag.’  Danny Sullivan: ‘Yahoo, You DO Index Meta Keywords Tag.’
• Van Natta cuts staff, tears down walls, turns over the C-suite. WSJ Digits.  Will it save MySpace?
• ‘Shared bicycles,’ emblazoned in Google-logo colors, were a favorite on our recent Googleplex visit. ‘Green Tour‘
• Been following the Sidekick data loss debacle at Microsoft sub Danger? They now say most data is recovered. Mashable
• Experian Hitwise data on US search share, long tail, search engine marketshare by industry. via Virginia Nussey
• Danny Sullivan uses the word xcvteuflsowkldlslkslklsk to prove that Yahoo DOES use the meta keyword tag. Search Engine Land
• Twitter as ‘poor-man’s email’ … and as a tool for community, brand and business. Nice Quick-Start Biz Guide. ClickZ
• To infinity and beyond … or at least 10,000 points anyway, as the Dow tops that mark for the first time in a year. Up 50% since March.
• Will digital print, and the ability to customize content, save traditional publishers? Trib, Time Inc. try it. DMNews
• ‘Promoted Videos has become a critical way for creators to get their content in front of viewers.’ Now via AdWords.
• It took LinkedIn 477 days to get first million users. The latest million took 12 days. Now at 50 million total users.
• Yahoo and Google to report earnings soon. YHOO stock up 39% this year, GOOG up 70% since January. Kara Swisher
• Bloomburg buys BusinessWeek…cheap. Conde Nast’s Portfolio is gone. 3 biz mags remain: BW, Forbes, Fortune. WSJ
• Our weekly Roundup of search engine marketing, advertising, analytics and Kansas City Tweets, through 10/09/2009.
• Top users are on social sites more than email, IM combined. ‘Dollars are following eyeballs,’ ad prices low. eMarketer
• ‘This ship is sinking,’ says Mashable regarding MySpace. Traffic has dropped nearly 20% since June.
• Fun stuff. Esquire’s Digital Man, Barry Sonnenfeld, vlogs about the Traeger Professional Wood Pallet Grill. Kara Swisher
• Email no longer rules, but does that save time…or waste more of it? WSJ
• 9.1 million saw The Office ‘spoof within a spoof’ wedding entrance, but 27+ million have seen the JK Wedding Dance. E!
• WSJ: ‘the biggest battle over fonts — ever — has broken out in New York federal court.’ NBC vs. Font Bureau.
• Google Blog: ‘This week we made many small improvements to the functionality and usability of our search results.’

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