Google Gadgets & SEO

I am in the San Jose area for today’s SearchMonkey launch party. It will be at Yahoo! headquarters and it looks like it will be interesting.
What is Search Monkey?
In a way, it is Yahoo’s take on gadgets within search results… sorta. The example they use at their SearchMonkey site is a movie website that has a […]

I will be leaving the trail to attend a few things in the next three weeks. I hope to see you there, and also this will be the window of opportunity to get some face time with me if I am working on your projects. Contact me asap to arrage meetings, here is where I […]

I happened across something that would make Michael Gray of Wolf Howl chuckle…
On the Google analytics features page there is a reference to paid links as if they are just as fine and dandy as can be, in fact you should definitely use Google Analytics because of the keyword and campaign comparison…

I have no real […]

When marketers are planning gadgets I have seen over and over again the first fateful and almost universal mistake.
Marketing team gets together, has phone conference, drinks coffee, eats donuts, and then leaves meeting with a great plan and a clear vision of what they want…
“We need a gadget, and we need it to go viral”
Um, […]

I will be speaking at the SEM Canada conference this year. The conference will take place on September 4th and 5th in Calgary.
There is a great (and growing) lineup of speakers including Todd Friesen, Andy Beal, Bill Slawski, Jane Copland, and Ken Jurina - see the most current speaker list here.
More conference info […]

This is the second in a series of articles about the top widget and gadget platforms. I asked the same specific questions about each platforms usefulness to developers, advertisers, and search marketers. I will also highlight my personal experiences with each platform and provide my own review.
Dapper
From their “About page”…
“Dapper aims to make it easy […]

Virtually anything you create and place on a website is easily grabbed by others. There are multiple websites and tools that make it easy for a user to point at what they like about your website, and then post it on their own site or profile.
We all are familiar with the ease of getting […]

Craig Newmark, the founder of Craig’s list was one of the keynote speakers at PubCon this year. During his presentation he mentioned his interview on the Colbert report. I just happen to have a Colbert video Google gadget and todays video just happened to be that interview. Update: the gadget displays a new video each […]

Jim Boykin is one of the people I most respect in SEO, so when I heard that he would be starting a new website I couldn’t wait to see what it was all about.
The site went live today.
Internet Marketing Ninjas is an internet marketing training video and SEO tools subscription website that offers specific insights […]

Lauren over at Search Engine Journal has started the voting up for the search blog awards
It is very nice that SEOish has been nominated for Best breakout blog of 2007. But I almost feel guilty because in thruth, I am in no way a breakout blog….
I think Vanessa or DoshDosh should win this because […]