Google Gadgets & SEO

LinkedIn has been pretty specific about their intentions for Open Social. They plan to have useful, business orientated widgets only. At Google I/O they also mentioned they would be revenue sharing in a “unique” way. Hmmm.
To see what they said (and what all the other social networks said) about their Open Social implementations you can [...]

Anyone who uses Yahoo mail has probably noticed that they serve rich media ads (widget ads). I have been noticing more and more of these, and have been curious why I haven’t been hearing about them more.
Yahoo is apparently working with a few of their larger clients on this, but I have seen some things [...]

Do you offer local business listings as part of your SEO services? If so I would like to know.
I want to create an information site about local listings, similar in spirit to my website about the Google webmasters guidelines, feedthebot. (In other words, I don’t care if I make money off of it. I just [...]

In addition to being smart, gorgeous, ridiculously talented, and pig kissing yummy, Lisa Barone is also one year older.
Happy Birthday!
Allow me, dear Lisa, to give you the appreciation your cats do not.
You need not feed me or strain my feces out of a box or anything to get my appreciation. You need only keep writing [...]

A great quick example demonstrating Yahoo’s SearchMonkey results was provided by SEOmoz member Steven T of LocateTV .
As with any new thing, it is great to see an example of its use with something we are familiar with. Stephen created a SearchMonkey result using SEOmoz….

Notice how that one screenshot says alot? The photos are a [...]

One of the highlights of WidgetWebExpo in New York was meeting Anthony Zito, President/CEO of mediaFORGE which is a great rich media company doing some impressive things in the widget ad world.
Anthony and I spoke at length about widgets, strategy, and upcoming possibilities. He is one of very few people I could discuss gadgets with [...]

Relevancy is always more important than any other factor in ranking. We tend to leave this out of our thoughts even though we can use simple ideas to improve our rankings by simply acknowledging that relevancy is more important than links.Links are an indication of relevancy, links are not relevancy itself. There are many factors [...]

SEM Canada is an event I am looking forward to speaking at. I just spoke at WidgetWebExpo in New York, and I discovered that my wacky style goes over quite well, even among professionals.
As far as SEM Canada goes, Google will be sending Ariel Barden (Google Group Product Manager) who will speak on paid search [...]

Eric Enge posted an interview with Matt Cutts of Google’s spam team.  Within the interview Matt addresses the issue of widgets, luckily I will be able to include this info into my session about widgets and seo.
Here is the widget part of the interview…
“Eric Enge: What are your thoughts on using widgets as a promotional [...]

I am in Brooklyn and everything I know about Brooklyn I learned from a Beastie boy song and I drank a few beers and it may just be me, but it seems as though I am damned good looking and everything is sparkle-ly.
Oh, the conference thing, WidgetWebExpo has a good mix of developers, advertisers, and curious [...]