SEO is like a prosperity religion for some people - with good reason. Blogs with good keywords and search engine rankings are making good money. The Internet Search Engine Database (ISEDB) is loaded with tips, tricks, and tutorials to help budding SEO freaks get smart, and Grazr.com user heinzwittenbrink made an ISEDB widget to keep up with the SEO goodness happening at ISEDB. Take a look.
If you Google “link:grazr.com” you’ll see page after page of results that take you to TagJag.com. Click on any of those links, and the page you see is a giant Grazr widget that collects information on a specific keyword, like “nostalgia,” for example. Internet entrepreneur and idea guy Chris Pirillo says TagJag.com evolved from his previous effort, Gada.be, which also aggregated feeds based on keyword searches. “I intended on bringing together the Internet’s search feeds to create a metaopensearch system,” Pirillo says, “with aggregate feed searches rendered dynamically after the keywords were passed along through the subdomain. It worked well enough, but was difficult to maintain. I shifted its name and focus to relevant feed searches that applied only to outbound traffic that generated revenue for the site.”
Pirillo liked the idea of using Grazr widgets because they rendered TagJag’s OPML “without a hiccup. I don’t have to spend time reinventing the feed parsing puzzle.” He says the most powerful aspect of using Grazr widget is its ability to render feeds in a variety of ways. It largely becomes the gadget gateway for an organized backend abstract.”
Pirillo says Grazr is largely an organizational tool for him, but it takes a certain amount of effort to get the desired results. “You get out of it what you put into it. Don’t put anything in there, and you shouldn’t expect anything to come from it. It may help you track items, but think of it as a way of tracking items for other people - applying organization where there may have been little organization before.”
Still, using Grazr in such a unique way has been easy for Pirillo. He encourages others to step outside their comfort zone when designing new ways to leverage the power of the Internet and the power of Grazr. “Don’t be afraid… fear leads to nothing but nothing,” he says.