Google Gadgets & SEO

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Sphinn Hot Topics is now a Facebook application.
My gadget displays the top three stories and how many votes they have. It also gives you a choice to “see all” and get a full list of the top stories.
I hope to add more functionality to it soon.

If you have been experimenting with video and Google Universal the time has come to check your experiments, there has been a major push.
Instead of a business card stating that I am an expert on certain subjects, I would rather do my branding via Google.
Okay, that is smart-ass of me and besides how competitive is […]

Google provided the most specific and actionable guidance on purchasing paid links to date during the “Are Paid Links Evil?” session of SES.
I think this fact has been overlooked.
I have often been critical of the way that Matt Cutts has distributed information on “nofollow” and paid links in the past. It is hard to be […]

I was discussing with some people Google gadget page view numbers and I was surprised by how many people didn’t know this, so here is a quick tip.
The best way to track usage is using analytics, but since Google is determining the value of your gadget by it’s internal numbers, it is good to know […]

Aaron Wall of SEOBook has created another Google gadget, this one is specifically a link research one …

Good stuff Aaron, keep them coming. SEObook also has a page for SEO gadgets now.

The Google Gadgets API group formally introduced the beta program called “PubSub”. TechCrunch only recently mentioned PubSub as a “Google internal project” in an article about the other PubSub… Interesting, no?
Well the “internal project” is now external, in the form of a beta program that will allow Google gadgets to communicate with each other.
“What is […]

After her SES keynote conversation, I asked Marissa Myers about iGoogle usage. She let me know that “15 to 20 percent” of all Google homepage visits go to iGoogle instead of the traditional homepage, she also said that the amount of iGoogle users in the “tens of millions”. This is a telling number, as many […]

I am sitting down to write some articles about SES, but I want to give a nod to Rand Fishkin first. On Thursday he posted about the possibility of SEOmoz getting outside investment. I really admire that he asked the SEOmoz community about this. I have some thoughts on this issue, (I think they should […]

During the CSS / Ajax / Web 2.0 session Vanessa Fox of Zillow highlighted poorly constructed web 2.0 websites which were not following some of the simplest foundations of SEO.
To illustrate her point she used Sphinn…
Danny will be so proud. It turns out that all the comments on Sphinn are in Ajax, rendering it invisible […]