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Questions tagged [widgets]

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How good is it for SEO if you have a widget that lives on other sites?

I made a widget that would ideally live on other sites. Here is an example: http://www.comehike.com/outdoors/widget.php?type=hike&hike_id=108&width=500&height=500 I guess since the widget would link back to me, it would be an SEO boost for my site.…
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How can I get stats for what 3rd-party sites have embedded our iframe widget?

Say we've produced a widget for other sites to use, like so: The client would like to be able to see within GA who has embedded the…
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Is providing high quality 3D models in exchange for back links a white-hat link-building strategy?

Would you consider this a safe (white hat) link-building strategy? Our company has built 3D interactive models of some ecommerce products. We want to allow other sites to use these models in their own ecommerce stores, at no cost, so long as they…
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Generating backlinks through a javascript video widget without getting manual action penalties?

I'm finishing an API project that will allow website owners to display related videos on all of their pages with a simple javascript code. The related videos are completely related to the page's content. And the videos display on the same page as…
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I offer an embeddable widget that links back to my site. How to avoid being penalized from exact match anchor text?

I built a service that lets build a map of their trip, then embed this trip on their blog with a widget. The widget links back to my site with the anchor text "map your own trip here". The widget uses javascript because iFrame cannot be crawled. At…
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How to dynamically insert a keyword in an Amazon Search Widget

Through Amazon Associates, you can create search widgets that have a place for a search term. In the admin, you can set the default search term, but that seems to be tied to the widget ID. I would like to be able to dynamically set the search term…
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How can I get bloggers to use my widget?

I have developed a widget that shows a story of a hike or an outdoor outing on a google map. Here is an example: http://www.comehike.com/outdoors/widget.php?type=hike&hike_id=108&width=500&height=500 What I am wondering is - other than asking…
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Tracking content from 3rd party widget using Google Analytics

I have a situation where I generate content (a widget which is composed of simple divs specifically) and serve them to 3rd party sites both synchronously & asynchronously. While serving those widgets, I want to track the number of presentations and…
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Link tags in iframe widget

I have a rating community-site and I´m offering little iframe widgets with the average rating and some little other info. Does it make sense (for visibility, SEO) to add link tags to the head like:
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Filter Piwik widget to only show data for current page

I am embedding a Piwik widget into my page so that when the widget is opened the end user can see page views for the specific page. The issue I am having is that the widget shows analytics data from all across the whole site. My question is how can…
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Weather Widget/API

I am developing a website and am looking for an easy piece of code that I can add to a webpage that will display the weather for today and also for the next 5 days for a given location (Wellington, New Zealand). I have fund some resources on-line,…
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Where can I find Ad Networks with single liner Ads?

I've developed a site that serves pure HTML Weather widgets (and they are great looking too). Just after two months I am generating 1.25K hits monthly (Google Analytics). Now I want to generate some money out of it. You can check my service out on…
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How to add Google App Script as a gadget to Google Calendar?

I created a small App Script with a small UI. Now I'd like to have it as a gadget in my Google Calendar. I tried to embed a gadget with the following basic XML:
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Embedded ratings widget or addon for putting ratings/reviews on our web site?

I need to integrate a product rating and review feature into my company's product pages. Rather than build one from scratch, I am exploring the options available for third party products, such as powerreviews.com. (Our site users will provide all of…
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Number of visitor widget

I am developing my own blog site in ASP.NET and I would have several blogs in future. I want to have a widget on page which will show the number of user visited to my page based on the URL {Because for every every blog I will a unique URL}, so that…
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