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Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Widgets - the benefits for your Web site


Widgets, or web widgets are small programs that you can put on your website or blog. Widgets have many benefits for your Web site. They can be used to track visitors, display advertising, syndicate your RSS feeds, or just to provide a fun and interactive experience for your readers and keep them coming back. In this article, you'll discover a few different types of widgets and how you can use to improve your Web site.

Never seen Google ads on a Web page? Then, you have seen a widget in action. A widget is just a small piece of code that you place in your website or blog. Other common widgets that you've probably seen online are a bookmark button, such as 'digg It', by virtue of the articles of the blog, Feedburner RSS subscription buttons and YouTube players. You can find a widget for almost everything from news Google Maps to audio playlists tickers.

The best thing about widgets is that it is very easy to install and use. You do not have to know programming or tinkering around code to put them on your website or your blog. Once you find a widget you want to use, install is simple copy and paste the code in your Web site, where you want the widget to appear.

A quick search of widgets will turn up thousands of results. Widgets are therefore preferable to use on your Web site? That all depends of what are your objectives.

If you want an easy solution for your blog get in syndication and shared on the internet, social bookmarking widgets are a must. You can find a widget for almost every site bookmarking there, so a way easier and cleaner to reach all the is to use a widget which subjects at several sites at a time. Other widgets that make easy sharing are Facebook, Twitter and other web 2.0 platforms. In one click, your readers can share your content with their network. And RSS widgets make it easy for you to get people to subscribe to your feed, with one-click access to your content updated in a reader, or by e-mail.

If you want to earn money, advertising widgets have significant benefits for your Web site. You can display Google ads or create banners graphic advertising for products you sell.

If you want to keep returning visitor, a widget that displays dynamic content such as weather forecasts or TV lists can add interest. Flash games, quotes, polls... the sky is the limit on what types of entertaining content, you can add to your website with a widget.

Widgets have benefits for your Web site, there is such a thing as too many. Know what you want to accomplish with your site, then choose widgets to help you achieve these goals.








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