Google Gadgets & SEO

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 [...]

Like any brave new world worth it’s salt, the brave new world of Google gadgets is at first difficult to navigate, but once you know a few things about it you can tread easier. Which brings us to the feared Fire Swamp o’ gadget strategy. Doesn’t matter if you are a company wondering about gadgets, [...]

I made a gadget from Aaron Wall’s search engine spider tool source code, available from his SEO tools page.
I have had my version of this spider tool on my other site for a long time, but I wanted to make a gadget that showed the results within the gadget, instead of throwing you off to [...]

iGoogle tabs and the Google gadget titles are sometimes being aligned to the right instead of the left. This is a minor tweak but it totally confused my eyes when I first saw it but it does seem to make more sense for Google. The “hot spots” (where people seem to click the most) of [...]

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.
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