Hey everyone,
Justin, thanks for your response. It seems you really have
your arms
wrapped around how things work, which is great!
One thing I'd like to add is, while you're waiting for your
gadget
submission to go through, go ahead and start promoting your
gadget.
There's no sense in waiting. One idea is to submit your
gadget to
other third-party directories. Many of them get just as
much traffic
and recognition. Here's a list to get you started:
- http://googlemodules.com/
- http://googlewidgets.net/
- http://labpixies.com/
- http://hotmodules.com/
Thanks!
Dann
On Oct 18, 10:55 am, "Justin McConnell"
<bool... gmail.com> wrote:
> jylyn wrote:
> > Hi, sorry if I am asking obvious questions but I'm
still trying to get
> > my head around how this all works.
>
> > I submitted a gadget about two weeks ago. I
submitted it as a
> > syndicated gadget - my understanding is that this
means it can be put
> > on other people's web pages, but not on their
Google homepage, is that
> > correct?All syndicated gadgets will work on the
Google Personalized Homepage as
> well as Google Desktop. The reverse is not true.
Gadgets from the GPH
> that are inlined or use the javascript set function to
store state will
> not work as syndicated gadgets.
>
> > I've tried searching for my gadget in the 'Gadgets
for your Webpage'
> > directory but nothing comes up. I'm wondering how
does Google know
> > what keywords to list my gadget under?I doubt they
look at the actual gadget code when they do their index.
> The searches are based on the information in the
ModulePrefs tag.
>
> > Was I supposed to specify some keywords somewhere
in the code?Not really. Closest thing to that would
probably be the categories
> that Google (or you define with the category attribute
of the
> ModulePrefs tag) uses instead of keyword.
>
> > I've tried searching on words that are in the
title and the description, but
> > I still can't find it. I'm wondering how it is
ever going to get popular enough
> > to appear in the directory if it can't even be
found by a direct search.It probably hasn't made it all the
way through the approval process and
> onto the servers. It can take a couple weeks and then
some.http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Ho
mepage-API/browse_thread/thre...
>
> > I've also updated my xml file since I submitted
the gadget, but now I'm
> > wondering if I need to resubmit it?Not necessary.
Their crawler automatically updates the gadget xml file
> every so often. Every hour or so? I'm not sure
exactly.
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