Google Gadgets & SEO

I would first and foremost have the creator of these gadgets follow the Google gadget guidelines and recommendations. Following those guidelines will steer you clear of many of the initial problems you face with these gadgets. It is why Google provides documentation.
Let’s look at some specifics.
Presentation - Unused Space

Here is a screen shot of what […]

The Google webmaster tools team released a suite of Google gadgets available via an iGoogle tab today.
I don’t want to be too negative, because I know how nice those great, hard working, and dedicated people are.
However.
This is the lamest, least functional, most user un-friendly, and most ridiculously ugly thing I have ever seen Google release. […]

This is the seventh in a series of articles which will be put together as a guide to creating Google gadgets. To see a full index of all gadget lessons, please see the Google Gadget Tutorial.
In lesson six we learned that Google gadgets can actually be “mini websites”. I have received a few questions about […]

Ever since Matt Cutts posted about gadgets in Subscribed links, I have received dozens of questions about this feature.
I want to show an example of a useful way to implement this. I have always wanted to see the latest posts of some of the blogs I read in the Google search results. I am an […]

Here is a iGoogle tab that includes a theme and some gadgets for Comedy Central’s Indecision 2008…
The tab includes 6 Google gadgets and an iGoogle theme based on the show and it’s stars Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert…

This tab will likely become more interactive as the election comes closer.
To get Indecision 2008 on your home […]

Just as a note of warning, the reported Facebook usage numbers are temporarily very, very wrong. The numbers that are being reported by Facebook are incorrect and have been for several days.
This is not a time to buy a Facebook app if you are basing your price on reported usage.
Adonomics has frozen their value […]

Some photos in a gadget of the independence celebrations…

I love Kosovo, and lived there for several years. I watched the war start and I stayed there until it was over, and then some. I met the woman of my dreams there, and I am very happy that Kosovo will be recognized by the international community. […]

I will be in Miami for the FOWA conference 28/29 Feb and a party Mar 1st.
It has a great lineup of speakers and workshops, but it is going on practically the same time as SMX West
I met some of these folk at the Widget Summit in San Francisco, and I have to warn […]

This is the sixth in a series of articles which will be put together as a guide to creating Google gadgets. To see a full index of all gadget lessons, please see the Google Gadget Tutorial.
How to serve your content via a Google gadget
In our first lessons we learned about the most common type of […]