Widget to increase traffic

Another cool way to increase traffic to your blog or website is via a widget. At least two ways you can drive traffics to your blog using a widget, that is to leave your footprint inside a widget shoutbox or offer free widgets.

Shout-box widget

A shout box is also known as chat box (or cbox). When installed on a site, it allows the visitor to make a short comment. This is when you can take advantage of the situation when you are the visitor. This means, when you surf the net and came across a site with a shout-box widget, leave some comments or greeting and a link (URL) to your blog or website. Curios site owner or their visitors may click that link and hence, redirect to your blog. When that happen, you got a traffic.

Free widgets

If you are a software developer, maybe you can toy with the idea to develop a widget and offer it for free. Visitors will visit your site to get a free download. In fact, free giveaway usually attract traffic. Just look at download.com or cnet.com. If you wish not to host the widget file, you can always upload it to a free downloader sites so that their users can download it. In most cases, as a credit, there would be a link to your blog. This will drive traffic to your blog as well.

What is a widget

If you are lost on what is a widget, it is basically a nifty little application that you can installed on your computer desktop or blog that perform some kind of function (like showing news ticker, photo slide show, adjust your speaker volume and so on). To know more about this cool gizmo (the widget), check out the following definition:

WordPress.com: A widget is a self-contained piece of code that you can move into, out of and anywhere inside the sidebar area of your blog. You can use widgets to personalise your blog and deliver information you want.

Yahoo.com: Yahoo! Widgets help you save time and stay current by bringing an always-updated, at-a-glance view of your favorite Internet services right to your desktop. The Yahoo! Widget Gallery offers over 4,000 desktop Widgets - the most available anywhere online. Yahoo! Widgets is the only major desktop Widgets platform that works on both Windows and Mac OS.

Wikipedia:
* GUI widget, a component of a graphical user interface with which a user interacts.
* Widget toolkit, a software library containing a collection of GUI widgets that collaborate when used in the construction of applications.
* Widget engine, a software system for physically-inspired applets, third party items that can be embedded in a frame. These can be categorized as Web widgets, Desktop widgets and Mobile widgets as they can be embedded in a web page, desktop background, or a mobile phone respectively.

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