Google Gadgets & SEO

Sprout is based as I am in Hawaii. But wherever you happen to live, Sprout is a very good widget maker.
Their widget building tool allows you to create professional looking widgets without knowing Flash or other technologies, and even provides quick templates that get you started remarkably quickly. In fact one of their templates is [...]

Recently Barry Schwartz highlighted the new iGoogle layout, and how it has started to be released to limited users.

I just wanted to add to that and mention that the new iGoogle layout and features can be seen by anyone via the iGoogle sandbox and is available to developers who request to be included.
To use the [...]

Google has over the last two years started a real effort to constantly improve and expand the help documentation for their products, and in that effort there have been several times where their documentation has resulted in broken links, not just for Google, but for thousands of webmasters as well.
Good news: Google is always updating [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Here is a widget for the conference:

Or use the iPhone version with video streaming of the event. Find out more at the conference blog
Also of note, my comments are turned back on!

The videos are coming out as are the slides for the Google I/O sessions. It is pretty cool that they are making some of the full presentations available.
I was going to be discussing Android today, but instead you can just watch the sessions themselves. Here is “An Introduction to Android” to get you started.

To see [...]