Google Gadgets & SEO

The iGoogle page for iPhone announcement has already made it’s way across the web a few times, and I have very little to add, except that…
Google gadgets now work on the iPhone iGoogle page.
I have made a gadget that simulates what this looks like with your iGoogle page, and the gadgets you have […]

Like any brave new world worth it’s salt, the brave new world of Google gadgets is at first difficult to navigate, but once you know a few things about it you can tread easier. Which brings us to the feared Fire Swamp o’ gadget strategy. Doesn’t matter if you are a company wondering about gadgets, […]

I made a gadget from Aaron Wall’s search engine spider tool source code, available from his SEO tools page.
I have had my version of this spider tool on my other site for a long time, but I wanted to make a gadget that showed the results within the gadget, instead of throwing you off to […]

Facebook to begin taking steps to “unclutter” user profiles soon. User complaints of difficulty finding basic information on profile pages cluttered with apps will lead to Facebook providing two versions of a profile page. A “quick version” and an “extended version”.
From the announcement…
“we will soon be launching a “profile clean-up” tool. Similar to how your […]

iGoogle tabs and the Google gadget titles are sometimes being aligned to the right instead of the left. This is a minor tweak but it totally confused my eyes when I first saw it but it does seem to make more sense for Google. The “hot spots” (where people seem to click the most) of […]

Update: This layout also just went live in France moments ago.
This is very likely a sneek peek at what the seemingly constantly changing iGoogle gadget directory will look like internationally soon.
The Google UK gadget directory has a new layout….

The above screen capture shows the search results for “Gadzi” (one of my gadget aliases). The layout […]

There are three videos that were released, all well worth watching as a great introduction to the developer side of Google gadgets…
note: The first two videos are about 12 minutes each, the third is about 6 minutes
Intro part 1…

part 2…

Gadget live coding…

Great videos, thanks for putting those out, and also thanks to VisionJinx at the […]

Craig Newmark, the founder of Craig’s list was one of the keynote speakers at PubCon this year. During his presentation he mentioned his interview on the Colbert report. I just happen to have a Colbert video Google gadget and todays video just happened to be that interview. Update: the gadget displays a new video each […]

Jim Boykin is one of the people I most respect in SEO, so when I heard that he would be starting a new website I couldn’t wait to see what it was all about.
The site went live today.
Internet Marketing Ninjas is an internet marketing training video and SEO tools subscription website that offers specific insights […]