Google Gadgets & SEO

Win a free pass to Danny Sullivan’s Search Marketing Expo in Denver, Colorado on October 1st and 2nd. This is a great conference that is focusing on Local and Mobile search.
I won a free pass to the first SMX in Aaron Wall’s SEObook, contest, so I figured it was my turn to ante up. I [...]

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly nintey-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think links are [...]

As announced on their blog…
Google webmaster central is now all fancy and new and improved. This is the place where Google collects and displays information for webmasters.
The most interesting new feature to me is the Google gadget intro and instruction page which is linked to from the main Webmaster Central page.
Google also is promoting [...]

Sphinn Hot Topics is now a Facebook application.
My gadget displays the top three stories and how many votes they have. It also gives you a choice to “see all” and get a full list of the top stories.
I hope to add more functionality to it soon.

Google provided the most specific and actionable guidance on purchasing paid links to date during the “Are Paid Links Evil?” session of SES.
I think this fact has been overlooked.
I have often been critical of the way that Matt Cutts has distributed information on “nofollow” and paid links in the past. It is hard to be [...]

For most companies and organizations attending search conferences the benefits are clear to them.
But what about people who have not attended conferences or do not see a direct benefit? In many cases the people who “would like to go but can’t afford it, or can’t justify the expense” are the exact people who can benefit [...]

Okay, Google this is getting ridiculous… I know you were pimping it hard on your home page but now in your other gadgets?
If you clear your cache and go to the iGoogle page, you will now see it preloaded with a few new gadgets that it did not used to preload.
One of the gadgets is [...]

There may be other things to do with your time than complain about Mahalo.

Hello all, This is Pat and today I am handing over SEOish to my first guest poster (by the way if you want to write a guest post, email me). It was a great compliment to me and I was pleased when I heard that someone so famous wanted to write on my blog. Without [...]

This gadget is tailored to automatically show the feeds of SEO news sites. Stay current with four SEO news sources from your Google homepage. The gadget displays the current articles from the top SEO sources.
See the latest stories from SearchEngineLand, SearchEngineWatch, SE Roundtable, and SEOish without having to know anything whatsoever about feeds or how [...]