SEOmoz – Beyond the Blog
I think gadgets are a great way to highlight the resources you have that might receive less action than they should. Instead of giving you only my kooky thoughts, I thought an example was in order…
There is a blog called SEOmoz (you might of heard of it). They have many great resources that people may not know of or are not taking advantage of. Lets make a Google gadget that highlights SEOmoz’s other stuff….
This gadget displays randomly SEOmoz’s Whiteboard Friday videos, it has another tab that will show random videos from Rand and other Mozzers, yet another tab will display YouMoz, the user generated blog featuring articles by SEOmoz members, and the final tab is just some links to SEOmoz content other than their blog (like their tools and articles).
This gadget is actually a test of sorts and is a pre-cursor to a SearchEngineLand gadget I want to create (it would also be cool for conference coverage… hmmm). I am experimenting with hosting gadgets on Google, rather that my own domains. This is the first gadget I have made that is hosted entirely on Google.
To add the SEOmoz gadget to your iGoogle page just click “+ Google” tab thing, or you can also add it here.
This gadget can also be customized and placed on a webpage or blog post (like it is above) by going here.
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A Quick Post about SEOmoz
Congrats SEOmoz
October 27th, 2007 at 10:24 pm
I like to create custom search engines but haven’t made any real gadgets yet.
I like the custom search engines because you don’t need to be a programmer.
Here is a Hawaii related custom search engine I made.
hawaii.search.googlepages [dot com] /home
I posted it on Google pages because the URL makes it look a bit more official.
I use it quite a bit but I’ve never promoted it so it doesn’t get much use. If it did get used, I would make a few bucks off of the ads.
I like the idea of creating a gadget and then paying for Google to display the gadget on other websites via Gadget ads but I haven’t tried that one yet.
Could you do a post on creating gadgets? I’d like to give it a try.
Thanks,
Dave.
October 28th, 2007 at 8:40 pm
Hey Dave, sorry it took so long to get your comment up, it got stuck in a spam filter (arrrgh) I will be doing some article on crating gadgets. I did one that might point you in the right direction, but it isn’t really good, i was totally drunk when I wrote it…. but it discusses Google custom search engine gadgets specifically
How to make a gadget even if you are drunk
October 28th, 2007 at 9:45 pm
Thanks Pat! – Good tutorial! – It gave me some ideas.
I just noticed that you can right-click on then gadget in Fire-Fox and select open frame in a new window. You can also right-click to view page source and grab the code. I’ll start playing around with that stuff.
November 1st, 2007 at 8:40 pm
Any chance of getting a Yahoo widget engine or netvibes version?
November 2nd, 2007 at 5:28 am
Kat – As soon as you build it! I do not have any plans to do it, I actually have to redo this gadget to make is re-sizable