Free SEO Widget - Theme Zoom Shares Gladius Free Keyword Tool

Theme Zoom has launched a new SEO goodie that you can embed right on your site: The Gladius Free Keyword Tool. The free keyword tool widget is a great little “mini-me” demonstration version of the Krakken Market Analysis tool.

Gladius may look like an innocent little widget, but it will bring back some hefty results: Market Segment, Cost/Click, Clicks/Day, Competing Pages, PPCMV, Est. OMV for your chosen keywords.

The international keyword widget (available in over 20 locales worldwide) is easily embeddable and can be added to your website, blog or social platforms.

If your interest is peaked, you can try out the new tool below right here on Technology Goddess.

Give it a try and grab the code for free!

The LSI Controversy, That Wasn’t.

There seems to be a bit of debate on LSI lately.  I’m not going to say too much about all the commentary back and forth, because frankly I feel senior Theme Zoom engineer (this guy BUILDS search engines) Kelly Reynolds, said it best when he said,

There is no LSI Controversy.

“Latent Semantic Analysis is an algorithm. An idea. A tool. It has many applications for which it is ideally suited, and some for which it is not. Some of those applications include, but are not limited to (from Wikipedia):

• Compare the documents in the concept space (data clustering, document classification)
• Find similar documents across languages, after analyzing a base set of translated documents (cross language retrieval)
• Find relations between terms (synonymy and polysemy)
• Given a query of terms, translate it into the concept space, and find matching documents (information retrieval)

Obviously if you are a search engine, the information retrieval would be most interesting. If you have a huge amount of research abstracts that you are trying to categorize for research purposes, you’d be most interested in document classification. Cross language retrieval would be right up your alley if you are tracking the history and evolution of Indo-European languages using their dated written histories. If you are trying to discover all of the ways that a particular concept is thought of and referenced, you’d focus on synonymy and polysemy.”

I had to smile when I came across Ferny Ceballos’ blog and the LSI: Passive Agressive Attack or Misunderstanding post, both because of the great personal writing style he always uses, and the graphic image of the bull (doing his business) he used, which of course, I promptly swiped to use on my own blog, too.  (I know you won’t mind, Ferny).

~ Technology Goddess

Thanks, OnlyWire, For Making Me Lose Dozens Of Twitter Followers!

I’m usually a big fan of convenience software, especially software that allows me to communicate with my networks more gracefully and quickly.

So, initially I was excited about OnlyWire, (notice I didn’t put a link there, yes… that is a deliberate spurn). When I signed up for Onlywire, I had visions of easy bookmarking as I browsed the web, and seamless updating of my bookmark sites saving more time for chatting. Read more

Eco-Datamining

Hello,

Erika sent me a fascinating article that is related to my work at Theme Zoom. Scientists have created a model to monitor trends in social media such as Twitter and global semantics in combination with scraping and mining data from Google and world financial markets to fortell major pandemic disease, ecological crisis and total global collapse.

Russell Wright (Guest Writer for Technologygoddess.com)

Add Google Friend Connect to Your FriendFeed Lifestream

Adding Google Friend Connect activity to your FriendFeed is not hard to do when you know a few “work around” tricks, and I can show you how to get it done in 10 easy steps!  The challenge is that FriendFeed does not allow Google Friend Connect to be added to its’ stream yet and that your Google Friend Connect Feed that goes through Plaxo is not able to be read by FriendFeed, Facebook etc…

I have to say with a little bit of an evil chuckle, that by adding your Google Friend Connect to your FriendFeed, and having the FriendFeed app enabled in Facebook, you can now feed your Google Friend Connect activity straight into Facebook for all your Facebook friends to see… And since Facebook has made it so damn hard to integrate THEIR Friend Connect app on the average users blog, you will likely have some of your jealous Facebook friends climb out of the walled garden to come and play with you in the real world.  *wink*

Here is a Handy Little 5 minute video i created that walks you through the feed setup:
Below the Video you will find the text tutorial.

1. To get started go to your Google Friend Connect app on your site and click “settings” you will be taken to your profile page.

2. In your Google Friend Connect Profile, Make sure you have selected Orkut and Plaxo

3. Select the “Show Your Activity on this site to other users and friends” box

4. Go to your Plaxo profile page and you should now see your Google Friend Connect stream showing. You will want to click on the “view all” in the right corner of your Pulse Stream to see your Pulse Stream page.

Here is what your Pulse Stream Page looks like:

5. Firefox users, click on the RSS button up in your URL window to go to the Plaxo Pulse Stream Feed page.

6. Enable Your PulseStream “me” on the Pulse Stream Page and copy the URL to your clipboard.

7. Go to your Feedburner Account, and burn the new Feed URL into a feed:

8. Go to the new Feed page and get the New FeedBurner URL for the Plaxo Feed that has your Google Friend Connect Feed in it and log into your FriendFeed account:

9. In FriendFeed you will want to “Import a Site”, treating the new Feedburner feed like a blog:

10. Add your Feedburner URL to the RSS/Blog entry and once you hit save it should import your Plaxo/Google Friend Connect feed right into your FriendFeed, and anywhere else you have friendfeed enabled to stream!  You can also use the feedburner feed to stream into your other lifestreams that you might have in other networks.

I am sure that once you have the hang of this, you will think of creative ways to use your Google Friend Connect and other social feeds across all your networks. Remember that you may not want some feeds to display in some networks, so use your discretion as to what feeds are running where to avoid mixing your business, church, family etc… into one big swimming pool.

Erika~ Technology Goddess
More Google Friend Connect Videos, Articles and Tutorials

Google Friend Connect Beta is Growing
Google Friend Connect Setup, So Easy a Blog Can Do It!
(Has Videos of my setting up Friend Connect on this site).

Social Media Articles

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Google Friend Connect Enabled Sites I’ve Found

Technology Goddess is Google Friend Connect powered now, so please do come and join in the social conversation.  It’s exciting to be part of the groundbreaking of a new social application that likely will see millions of users in the near future.

The sites that are coming online are pretty much relying on organic search results to show they have Friend Connect enabled on the site so that other users can find them without searching through tons of profiles. This is why I am creating this post, so that in the search results when someone types in “Google Friend Connect Sites” or the like, they can find me and decide if I’m someone they would like to befriend.

All in all, I love friend connect so far and am having a lot of fun connecting with the other users coming online with it!

• The fact that you can travel from site to site, and have your friends travel with you is wonderful!
• I am also able to see what other sites my friends have joined, and then go check out those sites to see if they interest me as well.

In the near future, simply having the ability to see what sites your friends are on, and then visit those sites and join is going to provide an almost limitless supply of amazing new websites and places to visit.

Right now all of the newly Friend Connect enabled site owners are trying to connect with each other for the purpose of exploring the community. I have decided that an ongoing list of sites that I discover and find are on Google Friend Connect might be helpful for those of you just coming online with Friend Connect and looking around to see where you can play.

My List of Google Friend Connect Enabled Websites:

Are We Connected?
Darrell Penta (He has an amazing site)
TechESL (Darrell’s Learning, Language and Technology) blog
BILL BOARD for the PEOPLE
BuiltWith
Epeus Epigone (One of my Favorite Blogs!)
Ferny Ceballos’ Personal Blog
Go2web20 Blog
Language Co-Laboratory
Media Futurist (Another One of my Favorite Blogs!)

PreSale Today (concert tickets)
Food Recipes

Levees.Org (Levee information, Important Katrina Initiatives)
Social Media Vision
Mrs Deal Finder

Prime Cuts Bodybuilding DVDs
Just Done
Social Gumbo

My First Earthquake
My Latest Piece
Naples FL News and Info
Recipes
Technology Goddess
Charles Heflin
Visit Dominica
Garazon’s Den

If you have a site that is Google Friend Connect Enabled and would like to be listed, please comment on this post below with your site URL and join my Friend network and I’ll come by your site to check it out. (spammy or creepy sites I will not link to.)

This is only a service I’m going to provide until there is something “Google official” for Friend Connect Powered sites to be found by one another easily.  (Hmmm directory?)

Once there are thousands of sites powered, this will also not be an issue, the neural aspect of the network will start to make finding one another easy! In the meantime, lets connect, have fun and enjoy being some of the pioneers in this new network!

Here are my other Google Friend Connect Articles:

Technology Goddess: Google
Google Friend Connect Beta is Growing
Google Friend Connect Setup, So Easy a Blog Can Do It!
(Has Videos of my setting up Friend Connect on this site).

Erika ~ Technology Goddess - Social Media and Market Intelligence News

Google Blog Search: Fixing Blog Indexing Problem Caused By RSS

Over the last few months Google Blog Search has had some strange anomalies in the blog search results and indexing that left many blog owners scratching our heads. The good news is that Google is aware of the issues and a fix is in the works, according to Jeremy Hylton of the Google Blog Search Team.

The problems have stemmed from Google Blog Search indexing blogs primarily by RSS feeds only, which meant that for blogs that only have a “partial” feed (such as title only or just the introduction and not the whole post), Google Blog Search would ONLY index the partial portion.  Many blogs have the partial feed enabled because they are running the feeds as post titles or summaries through social apps like FriendFeed and profile pages.

The result of Google Blog Search indexing by RSS feeds meant that any links or text that was in the rest of the post was not avalable through blog search, although the full posts were still being indexed by web search.  This caused major discrepencies in search, indexing and ranking results.

Jeremy Hylton of the Google Blog Search Team says that they will now index the FULL content of the blog page, even if the blog publishes only a partial feed. BUT that this means it will also now index the non-post parts of your blog pages too.

How is this currently effecting your blog indexing? Well, because your non-post parts of the pages are also indexing, you may notice that your tags are also now sometimes indexing as pages, because anytime a blog publishes a new post Google Blogsearch is picking up the new page the post is in, including the sidebar details.

This also causes challenges for people who have alerts set up or do searches on themselves, their sites or their brand because you may get an alert or a search result that shows you are on the post, but when you go to the site you cannot find yourself anywhere on the page.

Jeremy says they are aware that indexing the entire page the post is on is not a perfect or long-term fix, but it is better than indexing by the RSS feed only.

“We do expect to fix the problem you are seeing. We’ll use the full page content, but exclude the content that isn’t really part of the post. I’m not sure if we’ll be able to make the change before the end of the year, but we are working on it and are pretty confident that it can be solved,” said Jeremy.

He also adds that once the blog indexing problems are fixed they will post an update at Google.

“We have changed the way we index blog posts to include the full content of the page. We’ve had occasional complaints about the use of the feed content, particularly the problem with partial feeds. The indexing change has improved the results for a lot of queries, both because we have the full content of the page and because we extract links that are missing from the feeds. The downside of this change is that we see more results that match only the blogroll and other parts of the page that are common to all of a blog’s posts,” explains Jeremy Hylton.

Jeremy also adds that that, “The algorithm will be improved to exclude “the content that isn’t really part of the post” to make the results more useful.”

Google almost always does a great job of picking up on major problems like this one and getting a fix out while keeping us informed of what the issue is.

In my case, I wish I had known this two weeks ago, as I had a few “late nights” up scratching my head trying to figure out why the strange indexing and search results were coming back on my blogs. It’s good to know that the strangeness in the blogosphere index will soon start to stabilize!

Erika- Technology Goddess Search Marketing News

More Google News on Technology Goddess

Additional Resources on this Article can Be found at:

Google Operating System
Nine By Blue
Google Blog Search Discussion Forum

Google Friend Connect Beta Is Growing

Google Friend Connect Beta is moving forward with the next wave of approved beta testers in it’s preparations for open beta testing. I just received my Google Friend Connect invite today and the Technology Goddess blog is now participating in the beta version of Friend Connect.

This great social app integrates full community capability into any website or blog, and although right now there are not a lot of widgets developed yet with Google Friend Connect, it is OpenSocial and so I am anticipating that once it goes live there will be a multitude of wonderful gadgets developed to optimize your on-site community!

I have already integrated Google Friend Connect on the Technology Goddess blog, and you can now join the community and the conversation!

My Thoughts so far:

• Google Friend Connect was super-easy to install and integrate, easier than building most social widgets. I have created a basic tutorial for you in the Technology Goddess blog showing my own installation of Google Friend Connect.
• Right now the “wall” widget is ready to use so users can comment on your site, a nifty feature of the “wall” is that you can specify whether you want the widget to be for the entire site or a page. This means that you can have different areas of pages of your site, or perhaps a popular article on your blog that can have a unique “comments” wall for your community. Yes, blogs already have “comments” but the fact that you can now create this anywhere for your community is outstanding.
• The “Ratings” widget is similar, you can specify the “ratings” widget to cover an entire site, a page, an article or item. So yes, you can have rating not only for your articles or blog posts, but perhaps for your reviews of other products? I will have this widget integrated shortly with new articles that cover technology apps. so that my community can share in the ratings process.

Erika - Google Friend Connect Setup and Installation Videos on Technology Goddess Blog

More Information on Google Friend Connect and for more Google articles like this one.

Google Friend Connect Setup: So Easy a Blog Can Do It!

The setup for Google Friend Connect was amazingly easy and graceful, so easy in fact, my blog could almost do it on it’s own. It took me less than 10 minutes to add full community capability onto my Technology Goddess blog, and I recorded two videos of the setup process.

Video One: Google Friend Connect Setup and Installation:

Video Two: Google Friend Connect Setup and Installation:

That’s my overview on setting up Google Friend connect on your blog or website. It took me only a few minutes to have a community flourishing on my blog. Very Cool.

More Articles on Google Friend Connect
and Social Media, OpenSocial

Erika- Technology Goddess

Black Friday: My First Time Ever Shopping on Black Friday!

I have never gotten up early to shop on Black Friday. The very idea seemed not only slightly offensive but also boring. Why fight thousands of people for a bargain I can likely find online? At least that is what I used to think. What changed my mind? Four dollar tracksuits and hoodies for my kids. I saw the ad last night, my bargain hunting mouth watered, and I decided that if I could outfit 3 kids in winter clothing that cheaply, I had to give it a try. At least once.

Was I in for a suprise! Not only were there MORE people than I expected, but as a “first timer” I was unprepared and ill equipped and fed for the trek. I found out many shoppers were drunk. At first I thought that was strange but as the morning wore on, I understood WHY people drink before Black Friday shopping. I hope they had designated drivers, because the way carts were crashing into my heels, feet, legs and body I feel like the song “Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer”, only in my case, the reindeer had a Wal-Mart sign on it.

Just promise not to laugh TOO hard when I spy Starbucks and actually break into a song of joy. It was cold, very cold, and meant to be funny.

ABOVE: Black Friday part 1- I Arrive at Kohls and am SHOCKED!

ABOVE: Black Friday Part 2: Ig et through the line, get into Kohls, and encounter drunken shoppers.

ABOVE: Black Friday Part 4- I think these people are Drunk…. and then I discover WHY people DRINK before shopping on Black Friday.  As long as you have a designated driver, it might help to be tipsy.

ABOVE: Black Friday Part 5: Wal-Mart Adventure

~ Erika  Social Media and Life News form Technology Goddess

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