Google Gadgets & SEO

SEOmoz has announced that they will be holding a full day SEO training event on October 1st in Seattle which costs between 199 - 399 dollars, depending on when you register, and if you are a premium member of SEOmoz or not.
When I read about it I was excited for a couple reasons. First […]

I have just been asked to turn down the TV by a nurse I am breaking up with. We are in Canada and we met in Hawaii and the TV was disturbing her. There was no gunfire and there were no car chases on the TV, there was only the poet, Martin Espada, discussing his […]

Why do I keep writing abut gadgets? I think they have a big place in the future of search behavior, and they hold many possibilities for attracting and retaining visitors to your website or brand. Even if you just put up a gadget page for your visitors, you would be surprised at the traffic you […]

My 44 second video rant about Mahalo whiners received at least 380 links, was watched nearly 800 times, and was one of the most linked to videos (see stats in image) on YouTube in the “people and blogs” category for the first two days of its existence.
This is interesting to me in two ways.
One - […]

Did you know that if you search for “YouTube” in the Google gadget directory you get over 100 gadgets????
Most of the gadgets are the same thing, or do the same thing. But there are a few gems. How is someone going to find a gadget in a couple of months when there are 300 YouTube […]

Okay, Google this is getting ridiculous… I know you were pimping it hard on your home page but now in your other gadgets?
If you clear your cache and go to the iGoogle page, you will now see it preloaded with a few new gadgets that it did not used to preload.
One of the gadgets is […]

SEOish got hacked I think.
My site has been starting to act screwy and there is some weird search results happening. In Google blog search there are results (high ranking ones) that are using my Title and snippet but redirecting to crap sites.
I did a post about Serph.com and when you search in Google blog […]

There may be other things to do with your time than complain about Mahalo.

Update: Google has a new help page describing link schemes. 
When I am describing the Google webmaster guidelines, one of the most common questions I encounter is “What is a link scheme?” and also “What is a bad neighborhood?”
I explain both of these in my description of the guideline that mentions these terms…
To see more about […]

For those of you who are experimenting with Google gadget creation, there is some big news. The Google Gadget API Group thread announced the new scratchpad.
The new Google Gadget editor allows you to save and upload your files. Yum.
Lets have a look at it shall we? It is live below.
See line #5? (you have to […]