Tweets about search engine marketing, advertising, analytics and Kansas City for the week ending 11/06/09.

• Conversion Tracking is now ‘easier to implement, monitor, and troubleshoot.’ Inside AdWords Blog: http://bit.ly/3O4r4h
• “Pretty nice casket’ for his cat but he had to ‘dig a really big hole.’ Walmart caskets get reviewed online. AdAge: http://bit.ly/1ak4jc
• ‘Way too many business people say Twitter is stupid.’ Social-media thoughts from Gary Vaynerchuk’s new book via WSJ http://bit.ly/15wQ4o
• LinkedIn testing a ‘cleaner, less-cluttered look.’ Nav changes, less scrolling, more space for content. http://bit.ly/2I8aen
• ‘How We Use Twitter.” Our small business shares our thoughts on using the microblogging platform. Group 3 Solutions: http://bit.ly/2JBsqR
• Walt Mossberg review: ‘The Droid is potentially a big win for Verizon, Motorola and Google.’ http://bit.ly/2H6sBY
• How much does Google know about you? If you use Gmail, Voice, Search, Reader, etc., it might be a lot. Google Dashboard http://bit.ly/2Py7pw
• Southern Comfort media now 100% online because, ‘It’s about delivering value beyond what’s in your bottle.’ eMarketer: http://bit.ly/dEQSl
• Jeff Jarvis is ‘fretting about us all forgetting things because we’re using Twitter.’ It’s the ‘Temporary Web.’ http://bit.ly/4tVL4Y
• At Purdue, using Twitter, FB, SMS to backchannel ‘allows students to comment on the class as it proceeds.’ http://bit.ly/1K8DDB
• Google Social is ‘thrilled to introduce a new set of Friend Connect features.’ Aimed at getting to know visitors. http://bit.ly/2n6QOr
• ‘Ad Sitelinks will display up to 4 additional Destination URLs.’ Will this increase AdWords conversions? http://bit.ly/3Huzjz
• ‘With a new, streamlined and less cluttered appearance,’ MSN introduces a new home page. Social, video, localization. http://bit.ly/4kH8tb
• StatCounter: Google nears 81% market share for October, Yahoo and Bing about 9%. http://bit.ly/3RG8e5
• Forrester blog asks, ‘Why Are Marketers So Bad At Measuring Social Media?’ SMM is ‘drowning in a sea of metrics.’ http://bit.ly/YPor0
• Follow-up DMOZ post on ‘identifying the good, organizing it, classifying it, providing links to it’ on the web. http://bit.ly/b7kks
• ‘Come to Think of It, eBay,’ ad campaign starts today, says WSJ. ‘Ad motto, or desperate plea for attention?’ http://bit.ly/3tlGhg
• Does ‘the best SEO in the world come from small shops and freelance consultants?” SEngineLand asks. We think so! http://bit.ly/3Ul3EQ
• Jeff Jarvis: ‘journalists must become entrepreneurs.’ Give j-schoolers access to biz incubators, not gov funding. http://bit.ly/mTjVJ
• SearchEngineWatch compares banning social media now to banning Web mail and even the Internet a few years ago. http://bit.ly/4EebeY
• SEO isn’t Rocket Science (but if your site is about Rocket Science, make sure you mention it). Group 3 Solutions blog: http://bit.ly/2yacJv
• A week of Tweets about search engine marketing, advertising, analytics and Kansas City. Group 3 Solutions blog: http://bit.ly/1PeO8X
• Yahoo’s Yodel Anecdotal Blogger Nicki Dugan ‘Will Not Be Yodeling Anymore,’ says All Things Digital. http://bit.ly/2kxGZu

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