Traffic Thursdays : What’s Wicked at WidgetBox

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I haven’t tried any of these, but the idea behind some of the widgets over at WidgetBox are just awesome. Here are some of the ones I found in the Blogosphere category that could help you market yourself, or make your blog more marketable. Try them out on your blog.

Wait a minute. What was that last one? Oh, that’s OUR Blidget. What’s a Blidget? It’s your blog, turned into a widget. Go make one for free at WidgetBox - click on the Blidget button in the left side bar. Do share with us in the comments section once you’ve made yours.

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May 17, 2007 | Filed Under increase web site traffic

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2 Responses to “Traffic Thursdays : What’s Wicked at WidgetBox”

Andy Beard (14 comments.) on May 17th, 2007 7:23 pm

Hi Tinu

I am always fighting my insular tendencies with blogs and some of the widgets, in fact most of the ones I see related to sharing other blogs I tend to bypass.

As an example I can’t see any reason I would include a widget of all the recent posts from someone else blog in my sidebar.
I do include an RSS feed from my Technorati favorites, but at least that has some kind of reciprocal component.
Tinu Abayomi-Paul (77 comments.) on May 17th, 2007 11:06 pm

Thanks for coming by Andy!

Yeah, I haven’t actually tried any of the widgets, though I am widgetoholic myself. I have to fight the urge to tinker, so I try to stick to the ones that have at least SOME marketing value. I actually wouldn’t put someone else’s blidget on my site unless it came in a cool bumpzee flavor like so. —>

BUT I thought it would be nice to put that widget on imtellall.com and vice versa since the content is related, and it’s a bit cuter and faster than straight rip. I know I could do the same thing with that Gecko tool or RSS Digest or FeedBurner, but the widget is more eye-catching.

For someone else’s blog, no, I wouldn’t do that. The coolest blog to widget thing I’ve seen was the one at Opera –> http://widgets.opera.com/widgetize/ . At least with that you’re making something that could be downloaded to a desktop. It won’t stay on my Dashboard or Desktop in Mac though.

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