Jump to Content
Jump to Navigation

Archive for “September, 2007”

Google Gadget API Group Appoints Gurus

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

Often in Google groups there are several stand out individuals who spend alot of time leaving great feedback, answering questions, and they rarely, if ever get credit.
So when I saw that the Google group for gadget developers announced that 6 regulars are now called “Gurus” I was impressed. Basically it is just a nod, but [...]


3 Ways to Get Money and Traffic from Google Gadgets

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007

1) Affiliate links
It used to be if you wanted to display an affiliate ad 100,000 times a month you would have to create a website, get seriously huge traffic to that website, and then hope someone clicks on the ad and then pray they bought something.
Not anymore.
My Kayak travel search gadget is an affiliate ad…

It [...]


Vanessa Fox is [Almost, in a Philosophical Sense, Somewhat] Wrong

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

Vanessa Fox has been in the world of current real world SEO for about two months and questions Rand Fishkin and his vast experience of actually working as an SEO.
I hope this is a link bait ploy of some type, if not Vanessa has made a goof here.
I have an enormous amount of respect for [...]


SEO RockStars is coming back

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

Greg Boser announced the return of the SEO Rockstars program after a several month long break.
Todd Friesen of Range Online Media and Greg Boser (the ex-WebGuerilla) will return to the, er, airwaves in the form of their popular show on WebmasterRadio.fm
You can hear past shows at the SEO Rockstars page.


Hitchhikers Guide to Linkless SEO

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly nintey-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think links are [...]


Google Gadgets in the Real World

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

What is this photo?

Well the monitors you see there are giving employees access to needed information. Guess what? The monitor on the right is a live display… of an iGoogle page.
A frustrated manager used iGoogle and some gadgets as a quick to implement way to display rapidly changing information to those who need it.
“As our [...]


Adam Sah of Google to Speak at AjaxWorld

Saturday, September 8th, 2007

AjaxWorld announced that Adam Sah, the Google gadget Guru will be speaking. Adam is the mastermind of gadgets at Google and oversees the Google gadget directory.
Sweet. I am so there. I will probably have to sneak in, but I am so there.
The article touches on Google gadget use on the enterprise level…
“Many companies, including IBM, [...]


Google Promotes Gadgets on Webmaster Central

Friday, September 7th, 2007

As announced on their blog…
Google webmaster central is now all fancy and new and improved. This is the place where Google collects and displays information for webmasters.
The most interesting new feature to me is the Google gadget intro and instruction page which is linked to from the main Webmaster Central page.
Google also is promoting [...]


SES San Jose Comic is Out

Friday, September 7th, 2007

Okay the most widely anticipated event in search is now upon us, we have waited months for it… No, not the PageRank update, I am talking about…
The SEOmoz Comic Strip
Rebecca Kelley of SEOmoz does comics good and her newest comic strip does not disappoint. I have made my comic strip debut in them! Sweet, you [...]


It is official… SEOish is about Google gadgets

Thursday, September 6th, 2007

Out of the last 40 posts I have made, about 30 of them spoke of Google gadgets. There is a reason for that. I am obsessed with Google gadgets.
I plan to pretty much concentrate only on gadgets, their role in SEO, how they are being used, and how to make them work for you and [...]