What Google gadgets are available for Twitter?
This post highlights fun and useful Twitter Google gadgets for your iGoogle homepage that you might not know about.
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I have been testing how many times users attempt to view the canvas page of a Google gadget.
The test involved two parts…
1) How many people clicked the “maximize” button (this is the button that wold take a user to the canvas page of a google gadget) without being prompted.
2) How many people would click through to the canvas page when prompted with an image.
My test involved over 10 million gadget views of my example Google gadgets (about three weeks worth).
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The Overstock Google gadget ad shown below is using my browsing history to display products…
These product ads (Google gadgets ads that display products from a live database) have been around for about a year for larger Google advertisers, they showed different products from a database based upon what was searched for, but this Overstock ad is the first I have seen use history to populate the products within the ad.
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Have you ever seen a grouping of Google gadgets available as tabs? It looks like the image to the right (click image to see what I am talking about).
This is the way iGoogle tabs are distributed. A page like this is shown to the user who can then decide which of the gadgets will be in the tab.
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One of my widgets is the Google Webmaster Help Videos gadget:
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Just made a Google gadget from the Twitter widget code and realized that all the links were opening within the Google gadget iframe.
This is no good. A quick and dirty solution for this…
If you need to have all links within an iframe or Google gadget use “base target”.
To do this you will need to add a head section to your gadget immediately after the “[CDATA[” part and add the “base target=”_blank”
This will in most cases take care of the problem and make all links inside that iframe or Google gadget open up in a new window.
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One of the worse chores in local SEO is ensuring that the information displayed about your business or location is accurate across several platforms. This is particularly challenging if you have several locations. If you have hundreds or thousands of locations it truly becomes a nightmare.
Incorrect or outdated data in the local databases of Google, Yahoo, Bing, Yelp, Superpages, Yellowpages, etc. costs your business leads, customers, and income.
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I live in a good neighborhood.
Just to the left of the above picture (taken from a kayak) is my house, and just to the right of this pic is where the monk seal comes up in the mornings and if you go a mile up the road you will find the trail to Kalalau.
The picture however is of the restaurant next door to me.
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The first big change is the reporting dashboard which is described by Google in a video targeting SMB owners:
Another change is …
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It is not often that I start a company, I have only done it once: GetListed.org . I started it with David Mihm.
This blog post is somewhat long, but I feel it asks an important question.
Should developers get a stake in the company that they helped create?
We are a good crew, me and David. He is the consummate professional, I am the kinda crazy guy with ideas (not that David doesn’t – he does, I am just more flexible [goofy] in identifying and communicating them).
We both were horrified by what the search engines and other platforms expected from a business owner, and we both had some great concepts of how to simplify the process a business owner must go through to replace the old (paper yellow pages) with the new (a balanced set of entries on the web that allowed the business to be shown in local results of places like Google and Yahoo). We both recognized the need to improve and simplify the process of a small business owner must take to be listed effectively on the web.
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