Google Gadgets & SEO

With mentions in Mashable and SearchEngineLand this Digg like gadget is off to a very good start. The What’s Popular gadget shows stories, videos and images that are popular. You can submit your own stuff to the gadget and these things can be voted on.

What’s Popular? How about What’s Probable?
There are some notable things about [...]

Getlisted.org has a new tool that examines web pages for street addresses. It is like a spider simulator that checks street addresses to determine if they can be seen by spiders and if there are any potential problems. It is based on address formats in the USA only at the moment.
Addresses are very important for small [...]

Here is a gadget that displays the latest videos from Matt Cutts and the Google Webmaster Help team. Whenever they put new videos up they will be displayed automatically in gadget.

This pulls the latest videos from The Google webmaster help YouTube channel which can be found here. (if you can’t see gadget in feed then [...]

Update: Listen to me discuss this issue on Webmaster.fm

I was reading Janes blogpost over at SEOMOz about the advice given by Google on dynamic urls. There was some drama about this throughout the web as we all know. As I read Janes post I thought I could provide the explanation of why the advice given [...]

The above video of Taniya Nayak is just one of several and is from the Tv page of her website. Or see her video from a local news site.
On HGTV there are multible episodes with her but they can’t be found via a video search.
I feel bad to pick on HGTV, but I had to [...]

During Widgetwebexpo, I noticed that there was alot of discussion about paid spread of widgets and almost none about organic spread of widgets. This caused me to change my presentation. There were companies represented there and widget teams that I felt could really benefit from some simple techniques of how to spread a gadget. So [...]

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 [...]

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 was at SMX Advanced in Seattle basically to see some friends, and to discuss with a few trusted folks about my upcoming year. I didn’t really attend sessions, and as someone who didn’t attend sessions I discovered something. There were alot of people who didn’t attend sessions, but were there just to interact with [...]

Hi, this is just an open letter to Google, Yahoo, MSN, and Ask spam teams.
I will be speaking in depth about SEO and widgets at a couple of upcoming conferences and highlighting some of the more “dangerous” behaviors that can lead to spam trouble within widgets.
I have sent an email to Matt Cutts and I hope he sees it [...]