Google Gadgets & SEO

I will be leaving in two weeks on my backpacking trip (I am hiking from Mexico to Canada on the Pacific Crest trail).
I will be on the trail for the first month or so without ever leaving it, there is no way to contact me so if you need to talk to me about something, [...]

Ivan Pope, the founder of Sniperoo is presenting the WidgetWebExpo in New York on June 16th and 17th. This conference is his American version of the Widgety Goodness conference that he ran in the UK.
Except this is bigger. Way bigger.
I will be participating with this conference in a few ways, and can’t give out concrete [...]

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 [...]

I will be in Miami for the FOWA conference 28/29 Feb and a party Mar 1st.
It has a great lineup of speakers and workshops, but it is going on practically the same time as SMX West
I met some of these folk at the Widget Summit in San Francisco, and I have to warn [...]

I will be doing the Pacific Crest Trail this year, which means I will be likely offline for several months.
The Pacific Crest Trail is a trail that goes from Mexico to Canada through some of the roughest and most remote areas of North America. It is 2700 miles long. Click the map to get an [...]

The importance of direct traffic to SEO, illustrated by beer bottles and cans.

iGoogle will allow people to create and share their own themes for iGoogle in the gadget directory…
I made one and it is live now in the theme directory.

This move also injects the concept of “tabs” right into the Google gadget directory….

There are several pages of themes to choose from, I do not think this [...]